On Jan 7, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
Even if they both work with ASCII it won't work unless the software
on both ends is from the same vendor. The ASCII to binary
translation wasn't standardized in WEP (as it is in WPA) and
everyone did it differently. Generally speaking for a Mac this
means you need an Apple base station.
Say WHAT???
For one, it's not "ASCII to Binary" it's ASCII to Hex which is a
straightforward transposition of hexadecimal bytes to the ACSII code
equivalent. At the most you need to remember which character string
you need to use to signify a hex WEP key, some used '$' some used '0x'.
Secondly WEP is a rigorously defined standard, and 802.11b was so
smashingly successful BECAUSE it was so easily used by everyone. I
have almost never run into a problem connecting to a wireless network
that wasn't traced to a cheap WiFi box that needed rebooting, or a
failing wireless card.
The rest of the time it's 2.4 Ghz wireless phones or microwave ovens.
It's a noisy environment.
At one motel I stayed at this summer while we were on vacation (road
trip to the Northwest and back from Arizona), they offered "Wifi". One
router was sitting in the office next to the phone with a "2.4Ghz!"
sticker on it and a microwave on the other side of the counter next to
the coffee pot.
Gee, it was intermittent, don't know why... 8-/
(and yes I mentioned it to the folks running the place.)
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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