Some interesting points! See below. relen wrote:
> The WAP54GX duly arrived yesterday and I installed it last night. > Another part of the discussion with tech support had involved WiFi > security and the fact that MAC access lists were bad news, WPA2 was the > way to go, so I decided to go with that, with AES. "MAC address lists were bad news" - any details? I know MAC addresses can be sniffed by an attacker and cloned, but it deters casual connections. Also I thought the only difference between WPA and WPA2 was the method of encryption - TKIP versus AES: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3402971 "In fact, the original WPA has many of the same attributes of the final 802.11i spec. The main difference is that 802.11i and WPA2 require Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for encryption of data, while original WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) for encyrption." I've been thinking of switching to WPA2-AES if I can get the Squeezebox to work with it. Who doesn't want extra security that doesn't cost anything extra? My laptop should work with it, the latest Intel 2200 BG driver supports WPA2-AES. > I ended up setting up the LinkSys WAP54GX to WPA2/AES so that > everything except the Toshiba worked, and placing the Belkin WAP set to > WPA1/TKIP in a poor location near my wife's office so it's unreadable > outside the building but usable inside. I have a discarded wireless router that won't work with the Squeezebox. I wanted to reuse it somehow, so this statement is interesting. What do you have the Belkin connected to? Do you have it somehow linked to the WAP54GX for Internet access? > > So, everything now works... but I would love a simpler setup using only > the LinkSys WAP54GX (which on the showing of under 24 hours appears to > be simply brilliant), if anyone has any ideas. Go with WPA-TKIP until you get WPA2 support for the Toshiba. It's coming, everyone is moving to WPA2. WPA-TKIP still remains unbroken, it's just that WPA2-AES offers even stronger encryption. -- ___________________________________ Mark Lanctot ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
