Hi (from a different andy) On 30/05/07, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but what no-one has explained to me in what it looks like- In my hand I have > something called 802.11b/g Security Gateway. Is this a WEP or a WAP ?
Lets be careful not to confuse WAP and WPA. WAP is what mobile phones use to connect to the Internet. WAP may also mean a "Wireless Access Point" which is can provide Wifi access. WEP and WPA are security layers for running on your wireless network. Your wireless access point or router should be plugged into some kind of modem (probably a cable modem). You then need a Wifi card or adapter in your PC, and they will send message to each other through the air. Unfortunately anyone can read this messages. This is where WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) and WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) come in. WEP was implemented badly and can be broken by an attacker easily. Both techniques where supposed to prevent people seeing your traffic or using your WiFi. Do you have any more information about your WAP? It's common for companies to name things confusingly so it's hard to know precisely what you have in your hand. What does it look like? > I > have plugged it in to the computer, then plugged it using another cable > into my Alcatel Speed Touch Pro Router thinking I would get > use of my lap top downstairs for Internet but lost all internet connection > for both computers? > Is there something not compatible? Not sure why you would need to plug anything else into the router. Is the router WiFi or non-wifi? (does it have two small antenna's on it?) If it's not WiFi then you would need an extra WiFi Access Point. This shouldn't need to be plugged into your PC as well (should use a separate port on the router.) You're wireless access point would need to be configured so it knows it's only an access point to extend a network otherwise it will start trying to hand out IP address and do NAT traversal which could be bad. May even end up assigning 2 machines the same IP. For those interested in WEP security you should know it's not that difficult to break, there's a program in the Ubuntu repositories for cracking WEP. (DON'T do this on a network you don't have permission to do this on). Hope that helps Andy -- First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win. - Mohandas Gandhi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
