On 7/30/10, Jonathon Kuo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible to set up an Airport Extreme base station to handle both WEP
> and WPA2 connections?

I think this is only possible with enterprise cisco routers.

>
> 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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