Netbook, WEP and WPA - Scion
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I have a wireless network at home with WEP security. I've heard WEP
encryption is cracked within minutes using an modern home computer, but WPA
is better. I read here that my Netbook Classic works with WEP with a ...
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Netbook, WEP and WPA
Hi,
I have a wireless network at home with WEP security. I've heard WEP
encryption is cracked within minutes using an modern home computer, but WPA
is better. I read here that my Netbook Classic works with WEP with a Buffalo
wifi card, but unfortunately not WPA.
http://www.pscience5.net/WiFi-3.htm
Now I see that WPA is backwards compatible with WEP. Does this mean I could
run WPA on my network and only fall back on WEP only for the connection
between my Netbook? Would that let a nasty user pick up my key/password and
bypass WPA entirely?
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101190.asp
Thanks in advance.
Erik Sandblom
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Re: Netbook, WEP and WPA
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:49:56 +0200, Erik Sandblom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a wireless network at home with WEP security. I've heard WEP
> encryption is cracked within minutes using an modern home computer, but WPA
> is better. I read here that my Netbook Classic works with WEP with a Buffalo
> wifi card, but unfortunately not WPA.
> http://www.pscience5.net/WiFi-3.htm
>
> Now I see that WPA is backwards compatible with WEP. Does this mean I could
> run WPA on my network and only fall back on WEP only for the connection
> between my Netbook? Would that let a nasty user pick up my key/password and
> bypass WPA entirely?
> http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101190.asp
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Erik Sandblom
unlikely i think - the setting for security is at your router, my netgear
can only be set up for wep OR wpa, not both at the same time.
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Re: Netbook, WEP and WPA
Fiev wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:49:56 +0200, Erik Sandblom wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a wireless network at home with WEP security. I've heard WEP
> > encryption is cracked within minutes using an modern home computer, but WPA
> > is better. I read here that my Netbook Classic works with WEP with a Buffalo
> > wifi card, but unfortunately not WPA.
> > http://www.pscience5.net/WiFi-3.htm
> >
> > Now I see that WPA is backwards compatible with WEP. Does this mean I could
> > run WPA on my network and only fall back on WEP only for the connection
> > between my Netbook? Would that let a nasty user pick up my key/password and
> > bypass WPA entirely?
> > http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101190.asp
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Erik Sandblom
>
> unlikely i think - the setting for security is at your router, my netgear
> can only be set up for wep OR wpa, not both at the same time.
A year ago I upgraded my Buffalo airstation wifi router. One of the
offerings at the time from Buffalo allowed the airstation to select the
highest encryption available by connection. So it would be possible to
connect to a Windows laptop with WPA and a netBook with WEP at the same
time.
Colin
