Dazed_75 wrote: > > > On 9/1/06, *FoulDragon@aol.com * > > wrote: > > In a message dated 31.Aug.2006 23.39.29 US Mountain Standard Time, > lthielster@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. > > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss