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User profile for user: robert.garrett
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Airport Extreme Gigabit with WPA on windows machine HELP!

I have a Mac Powerbook and an iPhone. When I setup my Airport Extreme Gigabit last night with a WPA password it worked fine on my MAC and iPhone, but my wifes Windows XP Pro laptop will not connect.

So...I set up a WEP password and all 3 devices worked fine.

Question...Everyone says WEP is not as secure. Will the PC hook up to WPA...if so what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

MacBook Pro 10.4, Intel, Mac OS X (10.4.10), iPhone, 30 GB iPod

Posted on Sep 27, 2007 7:04 AM

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User profile for user: Tesserax
Tesserax
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Oct 7, 2007 9:51 PM in response to lejastrzab

but WEP, 128, is not bad either.


True, but only when compared to no encryption at all. Both 64- & 128-bit WEP use a 24-bit Initialization Vector (IV) that is sent "in the clear" with ciphertext. It only take a million or so packets to be "sniffed" in order to crack it. With tools, readily available from the Internet, most can be cracked under a minute.
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User profile for user: jamalm
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Oct 7, 2007 11:26 PM in response to lejastrzab

My wireless card is a DLink DWL-G510. This is supposed to be compatible with WPA, as it is IEEE 802.11g. I have Windows XP SP2 with WZC and using Windows to configure the connnection. The Airport Extreme N is set to WPA2/WPA Personal or something like that.

Do I need to turn on Interference Robustness or try a different multicast rate?
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Tesserax
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Oct 8, 2007 7:12 AM in response to jamalm

Hello jamalm. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!

My wireless card is a DLink DWL-G510. This is supposed to be compatible with WPA, as it is IEEE 802.11g.


According to the D-Link Manual for this product, it is only capable of either 64- or 128-bit WEP encryption. Fyi...just because a device is 802.11g-compliant, does not necessarily mean it is WPA-compatible.
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