Re: wpa problems again...

Get the latest firmware for the routers, and the latest O/S upgrades for the
PCs, e.g. SP2 for XP.



"Steffo" <steffo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43592838$1_2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It works just fine with me.
> I used WEP in the past and I switched to WAP-PSK with no problem at all.
> I have 2 different wireless networks, using Linksys at home and Netopia at
> work.
> I don't understand how and why you should have troubles in connecting if
> you have the right key.
> If I were you, I would reset the router and use a completely different
> code, starting from scratch.
> Good luck!
> Steffo
>
> paranoid wrote:
>> I posted here a few weeks ago, that I had setup a business with
>> WPA-PSK ( using a dlink router).... and had problems with network
>> drives not being there when software opened up, and all-in-all just a
>> general instability going on...
>>
>> So I switched it to WEP and all was well, my plan was to go back in a
>> few weeks after everything was more stable with the business setup,
>> and switch it over to WPA again...
>>
>> Another business asked about his security with his setup. He had WEP
>> and he read articles about war-driving, etc...So we switched him over
>> to WPA, with a netgear router. And he is having a horrible time with
>> it as well... Today he called and said his network going down every
>> 20 minutes. The other day, one of his computers lost their
>> connectivity, and we were trying to remote desktop into it....we had
>> to manually connect it again from that machine.
>> Someone said that it is the same as WEP in a sense, but I beg to
>> differ. I am not exactly sure how it works, but I am sure of the
>> results I have gotten. I know, usually I am against wireless anyway
>> (always have been, always preferred a wired setup), but recently have
>> been more liberal with my clients about the wireless, but now with
>> all these problems with WPA, and the security risk with WEP, I am
>> almost in the same boat again...
>> Am I crazy? Am I the only one having these "instability" issues with
>> WPA?
>> Thanks....
>
>


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