Re: wpa problems again...

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In <ws76f.8$HW5.2@trnddc04> on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:05:00 GMT, "paranoid"
<none@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 anyways (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?


WPA is just as stable as WEP on all of the systems I've set up.

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