Text 50388, 44 rader
Skriven 2008-10-22 20:05:34 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 50378 av Jeff Guerdat (1:124/311)
Ärende: 10/100 vs 54.
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	Jeff, a nice evening to you.

 JG> First, you simply set up the encryption (use WPA or WPA2, the latter
 JG> preferred) and set the passphrase.  Then, with any modern OS (XP or
 JG> better, *nix and Mac), you simply select the SSID from the list (you may
 JG> have to click on the network icon to get the list) and it will pop open
 JG> a prompt where you enter the passphrase.  Nothing OS-specific or clumsy
 JG> about it.  For all intents and purposes, the proces is about the same
 JG> regardless of OS.

	There is a choice of ASCII or Hex. Which one would you pick. ASCII would be
the easy option, a passphrase would be easier to remember.

 JG> You're mixing network topologies, too.  The 54Mb connection speed is
 JG> wireless while 100Mb is wired.  Not at all comparable.  The issue of
 JG> connect speed being incorrectly reported is a specific OS/driver issue,
 JG> not the use of an Airport.

	Ah ! Yes, I was. I knew that the reported rate was in the machine, not the AP.
I knew that the Airport was b-mode when my WiFi NIC is g-mode. Settled !

 JG> As stated before, this is probably due to the router expecting only
 JG> Windows TCP/IP stacks and drivers to be used.  That, like coding a web
 JG> site to only work with IE, isn't a Mac failure but a problem caused by
 JG> the programmer of the remote site.

	That I would not know, I thought that standardization was amongst us in this
regard. Let us drop this mention of stacks, beyond me.

 JG> Two ways to fix this:

 JG> 1) Use a wired connection to do the (re)configuration.  Since the
 JG> encryption is only for the wireless part, a wired connection will never
 JG> have a problem.

 JG> 2) Use the router reset button (usually very small, hidden on the back
 JG> near the power plug).  That wipes out all changed configuration settings.

	For sure on both 1) and 2). I printed the .pdf on this router and have not
seen if the reset does wipe all setting to default. I printed it just for this
purpose. More RTFM !

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