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. >> > > > ----------------------------------------------- > There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking > stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. > > neil > > > > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
