[P1] Disabling WEP wheb Adding a Dell Laptop to My Airport Network

[Thomas D. Kearns]

I figured it out.  Richard is right. Dell is wrong.  You need to get 
the Hex equivalent password from the Airport utility and then insert it 
in right place in windoze XP.  This website is helpful but hard to 
follow: http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/1000.html.   After I figured it 
out from Apple help sites I re-read the website and sort of got it.



On Sunday, May 9, 2004, at 07:19 PM, Richard McKay wrote:

> Am 9/5/04 10:55 pm schrieb "Thomas D. Kearns" unter
> <thomas.d.kearns at verizon.net>:
>
>> how exposed am I with
>> encryption off?  Should I return the Dell and get a different Windoze
>> laptop?  I don't do my online banking using the Airport - I do it on
>> the iMac attached to the Airport by ethernet.  I live in apartment
>> building so neighbors will be able to use my bandwidth.  Is that the
>> only downside?
>
> Of course you should try to see if the Dell can use WEP encryption in 
> one
> form or another and then you could just use the equivalent Hex 
> password to
> connect securely. It would also help to make the Airport a closed 
> network so
> that it makes it harder to find and connect to the network for others.
>
> I would suggest the Dell information is incorrect and that you can 
> indeed
> use windows machines with airport base stations. That is what the 
> 802.11b
> standard represents. It may be ignorance on Dell's part or just that 
> they
> (Dell) provide a means to connect wirelessly but without WEP and other
> features. Not going to get into a flame war here.
>
> Richard
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