> Some further questions for you or anyone else. My wireless router > asks for a passphrase for WEP enabling, but my computers don't seem > to have any way of requiring it, so I haven't actually set it up yet. > How does that work? Will my computers ask for it before encryption > can occur? How do I enable WEP encoding on those machines? Or is that > something that is handled entirely at the router? > When the machine is turned on the next time and it connects to the base station, it will send those keys to the router like a password. The computer side of the wep passphrase is located in the same place you set the name of the wireless network. Your base station and wireless cards must be in the same named wireless network. However, my apple airport card found the name of my wireless network, and then connected. You might want to change the name of your wireless network as well as changing the ip address of your router. However, the airport card is the only card that has ever "found" the wireless network, EVERY other pc card (obviously in pc's) I have ever tried failed to "find" the wireless access point and I had to tell it where it was (specified the name of the wireless network). > Someone in this thread talked about limiting access to your network > by specifying addresses that could access it. So would that mean, > specifying the internet addresses on my machines? Specifying the > addresses of remote machines? or both? >
> they only need to guess > between 1 and 256. Is that right? > You can change the IP address of the router and thus using dhcp change the addresses of your machines. I'm assuming the router has a wireless access point built in and like a 4 port switch built in. Plus a port for your "modem", be it a cable, dsl, or sprint broadband modem. Somewhere in the config page for the router there should be a place to set up the routers ip address. MAKE SURE YOU WRITE IT DOWN IF YOU CHANGE IT. The next time you log into your router you will need that address. Otherwise, your gonna be on the phone to tech support asking them how to reset the router. After you have changed it, reset the network, making sure all the machines are set to use dhcp. Let the router assign addresses, then go in and tell the router to only accept wireless conections with the ip addresses of your wireless devices. Now somebody driving by has to guess your new ip addresses, AND hope that your wireless device isn't conected at the time. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
