RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-25 Thread neil . coburn
I had similar problems which were solved by using 64 bit WEP instead of 128 bit. I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the

Re: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-25 Thread John Hernandez
Michael Peters wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:20:40 -0800, Phillip Kerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought cracking WEP was relatively easy too. It's not cake to crack - it takes collecting data for as long as a month or so in order to have enough to do it. Sure, it can be done, but it's a

RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-24 Thread Ralph Edington
I would like to report my very recent bad wireless experience and ask a question... I just switched over from wired mode to wireless. I bought a Linksys WRT45G (v2.2, firmware 3.03.6) and used all the defaults. Using WEP 128-bit. DHCP addressing. Signal strength on the sbox a good 90%. No

RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-24 Thread Ralph Edington
wups I meant wrt54g not wrt45g of course -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ralph Edington Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:38 AM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience I would like

RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-24 Thread Jason
if your DHCP server has too short of a lease time to the squeezebox. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Edington Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:38 PM To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless

RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-24 Thread Ralph Edington
and see if that helps. Any help is still appreciated. RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:57 PM To: 'Slim Devices Discussion' Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience Even if you don't

RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-24 Thread Daniel Cohen
On 24/2/05 at 11:37 am -0800, Ralph Edington wrote I saw the problem where there were multiple back-to-back reboots, the reconnect countdown getting to 10 before stopping and rebooting again. I don't know anything about spontaneous reboots - has never happened with me, except when my computer has

RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-24 Thread Ben Gladstone
: 24 February 2005 21:34 To: Slim Devices Discussion Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience Thanks. Still rebooting at random. My DHCP lease time is the standard Linksys 1 day. Shouldn't be a factor, one would think. It just happened again -- rebooted. Even though IP is fixed

Re: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-24 Thread John Hernandez
different channels and see if that helps. Any help is still appreciated. RE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:57 PM To: 'Slim Devices Discussion' Subject: RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience Even

RE: [slim] My NOT good wireless experience

2005-02-24 Thread Phillip Kerman
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:26:03 -0700, John Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a datapoint, you may try turning off WEP. I'm not suggesting this as a good long-term solution, but you might consider something like MAC filtering if WEP is indeed the problem with your particular setup.