Is it possible to set up an Airport Extreme base station to handle both WEP and 
WPA2 connections?

On Jul 30, 2010, at 4:58 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:

> Well . . .WEP is better than no encryption at all. It's easy to break but you 
> do have to deliberately go out of your way to do so . . .so it will provide 
> some protection against casual sniffing and war-driving since a casual 
> sniffer won't bother to try and crack it and a war-driver will just move down 
> the block to an open WiFi.
> 
> Depending on where you live (townhouse or single family detached home) and 
> how much traffic goes down the street . . .with the limited range of WiFi it 
> might be 'good enough' as long as you also use SSL for anything that really 
> needs to be secure.
> 
> Not an ideal situation and I'm not suggesting that you arbitrarily stick with 
> WEP instead of doing something to upgrade (there are options) but you have to 
> do a risk analysis for each situation instead of just saying 'WEP is bad'.
> 
> 
> On Jul 29, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote:
> 
>> No joy. I did find an AE Card Firmware dmg that adds WPA2 capability to the 
>> early AE cards, but it doesn't recognize my Airport card, since it's not an 
>> AE. Argh.
>> 
> 
> 
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> 
> neil
> 
> 
> 
> 

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