David C. Rankin wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
I'm trying to install a wireless range extender. Setup & configuration requires that WEP be disabled. I can disable WEP in the router with a couple of mouse clicks, but I've been searching Windows help for about two hours and haven't found any info on how to disable WEP. The wireless part of the network consists of the router and a single laptop running Windows XP SP3. If anyone has experience with this, I'd sure appreciate a pointer or two.
In my experience different WiFi proprietary driver and setup tools offer different access to security modes under XP. I would suggest hitting a Windows related forum list group describing your hardware or check the manufacturers docs... (despite the hype, WiFi is not always a nice easy setup and go experience in doze, especially if you need to do something non-standard... )....
Sounds like good advice.
I would hope the intent is to replace WEP with WPA, (or you are living miles from anywhere :-) )...
I live in Texas. Everything in Texas is on the other side of nowhere. :-) But yes, I plan to go to WPA eventually. First, I'd like to understand how all this stuff works.
Don,
One Texan to another, why not kill two birds with one stone? For both the inter-workings of the different types of stations, APs, bridges, long distance setups and WPA, I have found the madwifi documentation to be excellent. See: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs
The concepts are relevant regardless of what type of card you have.
Thanks for the pointer. I always thought that madwifi was some kind of game. -- Don Henson