Hi all, Anyone using a Billion 7402VGP (or similar?) and connecting with WPA2 security?
My problem: I've been using the above ADSL2 modem/router/VOIP for quite a while now without using the wireless (since the computer is right next to the router, I just used ethernet) - all has been well (only ADSL here in Albany, still waiting on ADSL2) with internet, networking and VOIP. Recently I decided it would be good to try the wireless: 1) to stream iTunes to the stereo via an Airport Express (bought with the iMac in November but not tried until now) 2) to let me wander around with the laptop (bought in May for overseas trip) Here's where I'm at: My first try at setting up the billion met with mixed success: - Turned on the wireless feature and could connect up and browse the net OK - but default was unsecured - not a state I was happy with. - Turned on WPA2 (I thought) and connected up again - but was not asked for a password and the network showed up without the "secured" padlock - Rechecked the router config via browser and sure enough security was disabled - turning it on and "applying" did not seem to take. I turned off the wireless till I had time to research. I had no problems with the airport express - other than complaining that it wasn't connected to the internet (wireless not working on Billion, no spare ethernet to connect to it) I set up a network OK, I have successfully streamed the iTunes and printed to the attached printer and connected to the Express wireless network from a second computer. I won't go into all the interminable forums I checked out - but I finally got WPA2 security turned on for the Billion - It turns out Safari doesn't talk well to the Billion - just for wireless security, it seems, I had had no problem setting everything else up! Anyway after much resetting of the router, saving of configuration files (checking them with BBEdit to check what had changed) changing parameters incrementally and using Firefox to apply the WPA2 settings - it all seeemed to have worked - after a restart the setting have all "stuck" and when I turn on Airport, the network is scanned and shows up as a "secure" (padlocked) network. I just can't connect to it!! When I try, I get a message "connection timeout" - it obviously is talking to the Billion because if I use the wrong password it tells me "Invalid password" so when I use the correct password, it is accepting that - but then some process is timing out before I get properly connected. I have tried this from both the 24" Intel iMac and the 20" G5 iMac and the behaviour is the same in both cases. And, remember, I had no problem connecting before I turned on the security - so there is no basic incompatibility with the wireless on the Billion. However, I am obviously not happy to just turn off the security! (I had thought prematurely that I had wireless working when I selected WLAN in the airport list - till I realised I hadn't actually switched mine on - it was just an unsecured network in the area! - if I figure out who, I'll alert them!). So... any ideas... anybody... TIA Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
