[P1] wifi-access question

[Tom R. no spam]

Seeing a wireless network is not related to encryption or password
or MAC filtering in any basestation I'm familiar with.  The setting
to do that has different names in different basestations' setup
software: "closed network", no "beacon", etc.  Not being able to
log in could be any of bad network name, bad password, wrong MAC,
as well as various networky stuff; and bad password could be an
issue of how what you type in gets sent to the basestation even
when what you type is what should be correct.

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Brian Pearce wrote:

> > But I couldn't log in - is it because the owner has
> > restricted the access or am I doing something wrong... ?
>
> Probably because the network has been password-protected (and sensibly
> so). I think if it were restricted by Ethernet or MAC address you
> wouldn't be able to see it at all (though I may be wrong about that).
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