HT201506: AirPort: Joining an encrypted WEP or WPA Wi-Fi network

Learn about AirPort: Joining an encrypted WEP or WPA Wi-Fi network
bfrancis9898

Q: Has anyone find a workaround for 40-bit WEP hotel connections?

Has anyone found a way to connect to 40-bit hotel routers using WEP security?  I am stuck (again) at a hotel that uses WEP and nothing I have read here or elsewhere will make it connect successfully.  I get timeouts or else a self-assigned IP.  Nice.  Even my bottom-end Android tablet connects perfectly but my Macbook Air (late 2011) will not connect at all.  Why? 

 

What really angers me is that I CAN connect to the internet using my iPhone 4s.  The iPhone connects to the WEP router easily and I can then connect my MBA to the phone.  It smokes my battery so it is not a solution but does prove that Apple is full of BS regarding WEP.  The iPhone supports WEP so why not a Mac?!  Thanks in advance.

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jun 14, 2013 1:08 AM