Re: Rebuilding Simple Home Network - Finding Highest Security Level Avail on Ea Comp
- From: "John" <a>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:08:01 -0800
"CT" <CThompson.FL@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What "security" are you referring to? Wireless security? Windows XP
(firewall) security?
Wireless security, I guess. The only security I'm aware of is located
only in the router's setup, online. The Linksys WRT54GX2 router is
configured with WPA/WPA2 Personal, with WPA enabled and WPA2 disabled.
TKIP encryption. But I thought I read that both computers on the
network (during set up) must be configured to use the same security
level? Can't mix WEP and WPA for instance.
Ok, so WiFi security it is. That is correct, you can't set your Linksys to
use WPA and your laptop to use WEP or WPA2 for instance. If you set Linksys
to use WPA (preferably WPA2 if your laptop WLAN card supports it), you must
also set your laptop computer to use WPA security.
The part that I don't understand on your post is "...both computers". If I
understand you correctly, you have 2 computers (judging by your other
posts)... 1 wired and the other wireless. If that is correct, you won't even
have to worry about the wired PC. Configure Linksys to use WPA2 with AES
encryption, enter/create a shared key.
Next step is to turn on your laptop. It will detect a wireless network name
(which is yours). Double click to join (or connect to) your Linksys router.
You'll be prompted for a shared key. Type in exactly the same key you put on
Linksys router. That is it.
.
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