On Thursday, Apr 3, 2003, at 11:36 US/Mountain, Damon Blythe wrote: >> 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. >
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