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Nick
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WiFi Security (WPA2) - 9/13/2006 21:57:39
Thanks to Calum I have been on an all day exercise to get WPA security running on my home network. Before he came into my life I was very happy with 'mac filtering'. Then the article he posted showed me that my security blanket has holes!
I didn't even try WEP because it is not even as good as 'mac filtering' from what I can tell. Anyway, I tried to setup using WPA-PSK and was able to connect. However, the bad news was that it gave me the message 'limited or no access' on both computers: "This problem occurred because the network did not assign a network address to the computer".
After that I then said what the heck, might as well try WPA2-SPK since it seems to be the best security going according to the data I have read.
The great news is that it worked like a charm on my new laptop, the bad news is that the computer in the basement doesn't see the network as a WPA2, but as a WPA. It still won't work.
An article I read states that you must have XP, SP2 and a 'hotfix' for enabling WPA2. Went and downloaded the 'hotfix' installed and still only sees it as a WPA.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002706&source=NLT_NET&nlid=27
For the record I have a TRENDnet TEW-452BRP wireless router and the basement computer has a TRENDnet TEW-421 wireless card in it. The laptop that WPA2-SPK security is working on is a Toshiba Satellite A105-S4114.
Tomorrow, I will call TRENDnet and see if there is an issue with the wireless card.
Nick
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RE: WiFi Security (WPA2) - 9/14/2006 12:42:35
Hi Brandon,
Couldn't agree more, and like you I live a bit out of the city. However, I won't always and it seems like the prudent thing to do, to setup security to the max since it isn't all that difficult anyway. If it affected my speed of surfing and/or downloading/publishing I would have a problem with it, but so far it hasn't affected speed at all.
Another bit of important information I have found, is that if you really want to be secure even with WPA2-PSK, you need to set your passphrase to a minimum of 20 characters or it will be very vulnerable to a dictionary attack. The passphrase can be from 8-63 characters in length.
Just got off the phone with TRENDnet and found out my wireless card in the basement computer will not support WPA2-PSK security. So now I will upgrade the card.
Nick
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RE: WiFi Security (WPA2) - 9/18/2006 17:54:35
Went and bought a wireless card that will support WPA2-PSK security. Installed and of course it did NOT work. It saw the network, even saw it as a WPA2 network (oh yea!) but the bloody thing would not connect...
Changed PCI slot (did NOT connect)
Disabled WPA security (did NOT connect)
Threw it through the basement wall (did NOT connect) just kidding
Only thing left to do was to disable MAC filtering, CONNECTED!
Connects with NO security whatsoever, so I enable WPA2-PSK and it CONNECTS!
Enable MAC filtering and again, it won't connect! What the crap!!!
Grabbed the book with my MAC addresses on it and decided to do the old 'ipconfig/all' and the MAC address has changed! Changed to the new MAC address and we have liftoff.
Mac filtering and WPA2-SPK security now working on all three home computers. Someone tell me how a MAC address changes. I thought that was impossible?!
Nick
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