Netgear security

I am trying to help my daughter set up her Netgear router on a Dell
Inspiron Windows XP computer which has a D-Link wireless adapter
fitted from a previous set up.

I am informed by Netgear that I cannot enable WPA security unless I
fit a Netgear wireless adapter. I am getting a bit out of my depth
here and wonder if someone can advise me.

Thank you.

"darby" wrote in message ...
I am trying to help my daughter set up her Netgear router on a Dell
Inspiron Windows XP computer which has a D-Link wireless adapter
fitted from a previous set up.

I am informed by Netgear that I cannot enable WPA security unless I
fit a Netgear wireless adapter. I am getting a bit out of my depth
here and wonder if someone can advise me.

Thank you.

That can't be right, WPA isn't vendor specific, although a very old adapter
might not support it.
Netgear do support there own preparatory 108 Mb/s protocol which
presumably needs Netgear devices at both ends.

Please post model numbers of the router and adapter.

--
Graham.

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"darby" wrote in message
...
I am trying to help my daughter set up her Netgear router on a Dell
Inspiron Windows XP computer which has a D-Link wireless adapter
fitted from a previous set up.

I am informed by Netgear that I cannot enable WPA security unless I
fit a Netgear wireless adapter. I am getting a bit out of my depth
here and wonder if someone can advise me.

Thank you.

Rubbish...

I have a Netgear router, WPA security, and it works fine with 2 laptops, (XP
& Vista).
Try using the 16bit security to see if that works.

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:04:20 -0000, "Graham." wrote:



"darby" wrote in message ...
I am trying to help my daughter set up her Netgear router on a Dell
Inspiron Windows XP computer which has a D-Link wireless adapter
fitted from a previous set up.

I am informed by Netgear that I cannot enable WPA security unless I
fit a Netgear wireless adapter. I am getting a bit out of my depth
here and wonder if someone can advise me.

Thank you.

That can't be right, WPA isn't vendor specific, although a very old adapter
might not support it.
Netgear do support there own preparatory 108 Mb/s protocol which
presumably needs Netgear devices at both ends.

Please post model numbers of the router and adapter.
Thanks for the prompt reply.

It`s a Netgear 834g and a D-Link Airplus Xtreme g + DWL-G520

darby wrote:
I am trying to help my daughter set up her Netgear router on a Dell
Inspiron Windows XP computer which has a D-Link wireless adapter
fitted from a previous set up.

I am informed by Netgear that I cannot enable WPA security unless I
fit a Netgear wireless adapter. I am getting a bit out of my depth
here and wonder if someone can advise me.


sounds utter ******** to me.

Ive set uup netgears with any amount of different kit talking to it.


Go for WPA anmd it should all work
Thank you.

Meanwhile, at the uk.telecom.broadband Job Justification Hearings, darby chose
the tried and tested strategy of:

It`s a Netgear 834g and a D-Link Airplus Xtreme g + DWL-G520

According to the manual, "*WPA will be available Spring 2003 as a download".
Helpfully, the manual only explains how to configure WEP and not WPA. Depending
which version you have:

ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/wireless/dwl-g..._Bx_manual.pdf
ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/wireless/dwl-g...-g520+_man.pdf

WPA is supposedly broken, but it looks a bit theoretical to me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_P...akness_in_TKIP

However I'm sure it's only a matter of time before some enterprising individual
comes up with a crack for WPA that renders it wide open.

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"darby" wrote in message
...
I am trying to help my daughter set up her Netgear router on a Dell
Inspiron Windows XP computer which has a D-Link wireless adapter
fitted from a previous set up.

I am informed by Netgear that I cannot enable WPA security unless I
fit a Netgear wireless adapter. I am getting a bit out of my depth
here and wonder if someone can advise me.

Disable the wireless and use an ethernet cable from laptop to router. Much
more reliable - and secure!

--
Graham J

"alexd" wrote in message
...
Meanwhile, at the uk.telecom.broadband Job Justification Hearings, darby
chose
the tried and tested strategy of:

It`s a Netgear 834g and a D-Link Airplus Xtreme g + DWL-G520

According to the manual, "*WPA will be available Spring 2003 as a
download".
Helpfully, the manual only explains how to configure WEP and not WPA.
Depending
which version you have:

ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/wireless/dwl-g..._Bx_manual.pdf
ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/wireless/dwl-g...-g520+_man.pdf

WPA is supposedly broken, but it looks a bit theoretical to me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_P...akness_in_TKIP

However I'm sure it's only a matter of time before some enterprising
individual
comes up with a crack for WPA that renders it wide open.

The best approach with WiFi adapters is usually to just install the basic
driver and let the OS do the WPA, WPA2 or whatever.

--

Brian Gregory. (In the UK)

To email me remove the letter vee.

"darby" wrote in message
...
I am trying to help my daughter set up her Netgear router on a Dell
Inspiron Windows XP computer which has a D-Link wireless adapter
fitted from a previous set up.

I am informed by Netgear that I cannot enable WPA security unless
I
fit a Netgear wireless adapter. I am getting a bit out of my depth
here and wonder if someone can advise me.

Thank you.

That can't be right, WPA isn't vendor specific, although a very old
adapter
might not support it.
Netgear do support there own preparatory 108 Mb/s protocol which
presumably needs Netgear devices at both ends.

Please post model numbers of the router and adapter.
Thanks for the prompt reply.

It`s a Netgear 834g and a D-Link Airplus Xtreme g + DWL-G520

I've got one of them (v3) and had no problem connecting my laptop and
Wii to it, using WPA2. Download the latest firmware from the netgear
site, I couldn't use WPA2 till I'd done this.

--
Andy

Graham J wrote:
"darby" wrote in message
...
I am trying to help my daughter set up her Netgear router on a Dell
Inspiron Windows XP computer which has a D-Link wireless adapter
fitted from a previous set up.

I am informed by Netgear that I cannot enable WPA security unless I
fit a Netgear wireless adapter. I am getting a bit out of my depth
here and wonder if someone can advise me.

Disable the wireless and use an ethernet cable from laptop to router.
Much more reliable - and secure!

And cover your head in tinfoil also, to make sure people arent reading your
mind.