On 22 Oct 2002, Donald E. Stidwell wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 22:17, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: [snip]
Cheers Donald. That's really helpful information. > > Donald, could I ask you two slightly OT questions? I'm interested in > > getting a wirelss card and obviously yours works so: [snip] > > 2. is it possible to make it use 40/64 bit WEP instead of the 128? > > Sure, just specify in neat that you want to use 64 bit WEP rather than > 128 and enter the key. Curious as to why you'd use 64 instead of 128. It's for my wife's laptop which she's using in a university environment where the APs only do 40/64-bit. She's researched it a bit and found that the security aspect is not applicable because they (rightfully) insist that wireless users use VPN software. Unfortunately it seems to be non-Free Cisco binaries :-( > One bad thing about WEP - on my machines, 128 bit WEP cuts throughput > about 1/3. Not really a big deal, but it is something to consider Again, very interesting. thanks, Oisin Feeley
