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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:56:33 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/7/2004 8:57:24 AM EDT
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Indeed they may, but they will obviously only get the speed of wireless B, aka your router.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:00:24 AM EDT
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Ok. I'm not getting 11Mbps from my cable connection anyway, so G seemed like a waste of money.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:02:43 AM EDT
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And if you take into the account the bursty nature and overhead of 802.11's protocol and the error reporting of TCP you'll not be a happy camper at all. Where x.11G shines is between comptuers within the local area network. I get 48Mb of connection in my LAN. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:04:23 AM EDT
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If you're using B and somebody nearby is using G (say you're in an aparment complex with a lot of wireless, I have atleast 6 unsecure networks I'm getting a good signal to at home) be sure to set up all your security options. WEP keys, MAC address specification and whatever else you have available. For some reason after wireless G started hitting the market I began having connectivity issues to my B router/AP. Setting up all my security options fixed it. Think I was running only WEP at 128bit before that I started getting problems. One of the options fixed it for me.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:06:20 AM EDT
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Yes....
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:25:16 AM EDT
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OK, got WEP enabled. What's MAC, and how do I configure it for max security?
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:31:25 AM EDT
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A MAC address is kindof like a serial number. It's printed somewhere on every single Network card, be it a PCI card or laptop PCMCIA card. It's a unique identifier.
You should have an option in your router/ap to only allow specified MAC addresses to access your your ap. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:35:12 AM EDT
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QS, you running a Linksys box?
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:36:26 AM EDT
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Router should have a MAC too.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:36:52 AM EDT
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No, it's called Network Everywhere. I got it at wally world late last night, MarianLibrarian was pissing me off and not giving up the 'puter..so I went and bought this kit and put the PCMCIA card in this old shitty notebook I have laying around. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:37:28 AM EDT
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Oh, ok, so I need to look at the card and allow IT access only, then? |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:53:05 AM EDT
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Bingo. The router may let you see what MACs are currently connected, then you can just allow that one and deny all others. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:01:38 AM EDT
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On my router's configuration page (get to it through a web browser, usually the address is 192.168.1.1) there is a tab for entering the mac addresses that I want to allow to access the router. Haven't looked at it for some time, but I'm pretty sure I had to type them in individually.
I'm using a linksys, so I'm sure your options and mine are differant. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 10:38:12 AM EDT
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Jebus. And I thought my head was hurting before I opened this thread.
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