WEP to WPA (Personal)

[Samanda]

Hi Al,

I took your advice and got the security taken seriously at my office :) . I managed to get a number of machines running XP to connect wirelessly to a router (DGL4300). Then, to tighten up on security I applied the WEP security setting and eventually, after some problems, got them all logged onto the network again. Then someone told me that WEP is really not very secure at all and that WPA is the minimal reasonable security protection. So I configured the security settings again but this time found that one of the machines didn't log on--gave a message that its adapter wasn't properly connected. I checked the connection--OK. I checked the driver--Performing correctly. Restarted, still no improvment. Re-ran the network configuration wizard--nothing.
Why would a change from WEP to WPA cause this :confused: ? Any ideas? Should I have reset the router and started over as a fresh configuration?

Samanda

[JackMDS]

Some of the older cards are Not WPA capable.

Wireless Security must be configured to the lowest common level. If you configure to WPA, Wireless cards that are WEP only would not work.

WEP is not as secure as WPA but many places use it. Whether it is secure enough for your Network is a matter of content and environmental assessment.

Otherwise replace all the old WEP only Wireless cards with newer WPA capable.

:D