Bernie Cosell wrote:
On 20 Oct 2005 at 10:40, Pete Holsberg wrote:
Would you assume from that experience that the WiFi was an insecure network?
Certainly. Public wireless hotspots are intended to be that way. [of
course, you need to keep that in mind as you read your email, etc]. Now,
if I went to Virginia Tech I'd have a LOT more trouble: they don't
broadcast their SSID key, I'd need their WEP *AND* I'd have to register
my MAC address.
Of course, I'm wondering why I have to fiddle so much to get a wireless
notebook to connect to my home network! What do they know that I don't?
I broadcast my SSID at home, but you came by you'd still need to key in
the WEP.
Here's where I'm having trouble. I may have a defective Westell gateway
or a defective wireless NIC.
It appears that there are three places that have to be configured: the
NIC and the network on the notebook, and the wireless gateway.
The gateway is set up with no security and since "Hide SSID" is
disabled, I surmise that it is broadcasting thne SSID.
The NIC is set for "WECA compliant" authentication, which apparently
permits unauthenticated networking (as opposed to the two WEP modes --
automatic and shared), and no encryption. It has the SSID of my home
LAN and a passphrase that matched the alpha text of the WEP key I use.
I have added the SSID of my LAN to the "Preferred networks" of "Wireless
Network Connection 2 Properties" and said that it does not need a key.
I would expect to see the SSID appear in the "Available networks" window
but it doesn't.
What do you think?
Thanks.
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