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. 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. > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss