Puzzled about wireless WEP

[Eric "Shubes"]

Dazed_75 wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/1/06, *FoulDragon at aol.com <mailto:FoulDragon at aol.com>* 
> <FoulDragon at aol.com <mailto:FoulDragon at aol.com>> wrote:
> 
>     In a message dated 31.Aug.2006 23.39.29 US Mountain Standard Time,
>     lthielster at gmail.com <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>      >Today I replaced my old Linksys 802.11b wireless AP/router/4 port
>     switch
>     with a Linksys >WRT54G (sorry, thought I had bought the GL
>     but...).  I configured
>     it to use 128 bit WEP >instead of the 64 bit I had been using.
> 
>     :looks at his own WRT54G setup page:
> 
>     The 128-bit mode is really just 104-bit... it only accepts a
>     26-digit key. 
> 
> 
> As I suspected.
> 
>     -Did you set the router's 'incoming MAC filter'?  Maybe it's
>     refusing your
>     card because you tightened the filter too tight.
> 
> 
> the incoming MAC filter is off
> 
>     -Maybe the software is set to seek out the 'easiest target'
>     network... one of
>     my desktops used to keep trying to hook into a network several
>     houses away,
>     with a 8% signal level, because it was unencrypted.
> 
> 
> no other wireless net is visible from my house.
> 
>     I know 802.11b can work... my WRT54G talks happily to my prehistoric
>     (early
>     2003) Belkin 802.11b PCMCIA card.
> 
>     Does it work when the WEP is turned off?
> 
> 
> It did with the old AP and continues to work with two other nets which 
> are open (if I take the computer to where they are).  It also worked at 
> the installfest which I do not think was open but I do not recall what 
> the setup was there and whether it used some form of WEP.

No WEP at IF to the best of my recollection.

>     And lastly, is it perhaps a reception thing?  I get *terrible*
>     coverage out
>     of my WRT54G:  the PC in the same room gets 80-100%, but one wall/one
>     floor/about 10 metres away,. we're down to maybe 30 percent.
> 
> 
> signal is 100% as the setup location is in the same room as and only a 
> few feet away from the AP.  I also tried moving further away to no avail.
>  
> 


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-Eric 'shubes'