Airport Extreme Gigabit with WPA on windows machine HELP!

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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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jamalm

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Oct 7, 2007 3:12 PM in response to robert.garrett

I am having the same problem. I have tried everything I possibly could without resolution.

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Tesserax

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Oct 7, 2007 4:14 PM in response to robert.garrett

When the 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) was configured for WPA, was it WPA/WPA2 Personal or WPA2 Personal? Have you tried both?

What is the make of the PC laptop? Is the wireless an add-on PC-card type or built-in? If a PC-Card type, what is its make/model?

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Oct 7, 2007 7:26 PM in response to robert.garrett

Probably, (even surely), the wireless card in the XP laptop is not compatible with WPA/WPA2 protocol. A new USB adapter should solve this problem, but WEP, 128, is not bad either.

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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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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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jamalm

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Oct 8, 2007 9:25 PM in response to Tesserax

Well, I guess I should have read the fine print. It was supposed to have been WPA compliant at a later date that never arrived. However, I read at one place that one can upgrade to ASUS drivers and get it working with that. http://www1.epinions.com/content_141083577988.

What do you think?

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Tesserax

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Oct 8, 2007 9:38 PM in response to jamalm

Sounds like it's worth a try ...

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TLDuke

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Oct 9, 2007 1:10 AM in response to jamalm

You might be helped with this patch for Windows XP: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=662BB74D-E7C1-48D6-95EE -1459234F4483&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;displaylang=en&displaylang=en

It introduces support for WPA2.

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