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| Red-Beard |
  Mar 26 2004, 05:11 PM
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"Ya canna change the laws of Physics"  Group: Benefactors Posts: 1,124 Joined: 11-February 03 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 288 Region Association: None   |
MAC = must !
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| campbellcj |
Mar 26 2004, 06:01 PM
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I can't Re Member Group: Members Posts: 4,631 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Agoura, CA Member No.: 21 Region Association: Southern California 
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What I said about Netgear above...I take back.
This a.m. the router for our office lan/intranet took a crap...OF COURSE when I was offsite at a meeting....so my people sat around lighting farts and whatnot for 4 hours. Fortunately I had a backup (D-Link) on the shelf...I'm gonna splurge for a real Cisco or 3Com shortly. |
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| rhilgers |
Mar 26 2004, 06:23 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 75 Joined: 17-July 03 From: Santa Clara CA Member No.: 919 |
MAC filtering does not do much.
Even with 128bit WEP the novice snoop can get onto the network in about and hour. The MAC addres is sent in clear text outside of the encryption so its just a small deterent at best. 256bit WEP products are just as new as WPA but WPA is directly supported under XP so its better for most users. SEE:http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2002/0909wepprimer.html BTW: I would not by the Cisco... in that range get the Proxim/ORiNOCO setup. POE. Power Over Ethernet .....mmmmm.... Anyway..like I said..WPA is the way to go. It a pain, but less than IPSEC inside of WEP -Rich |
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| DuckRyder |
Mar 26 2004, 07:08 PM
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Avatars Mode: OFF because of the recalcitrant few. Group: Benefactors Posts: 767 Joined: 8-January 03 From: Georgia Member No.: 110 |
I have a linksys wireless 4 port router running in almost exactly your configuration.
It works flawlessly and has for several years. The upstairs computer is on a linksys wireless pci card and the laptop on a linksys pcmcia card. All are on xp now, but at one pint it had an xp, 2000pro, and 98SE all on the same network. I had absolutely no problem installing any of it in xp. FWIW |
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