Wireless networking (specifically WiFi) involves several hurdles not found in wired networking: A wireless network is not as secure because physical access to the switch is not necessary. Wireless networks' signals get significantly weaker with distance because of the inverse square law (at least ...
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Is RADIUS more secure than PSK?
I'm wondering what the relative security of RADIUS is compared to using a PSK.
I know that when using Radius a unique session key is established, whereas with a PSK the same session key is used for ...
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How to turn off ad hoc network in OS X
So I create an ad hoc network every now and then on my mac for various reasons, and I have found lately that when i click on the wifi icon in the mac bar, even when the network is not on, it still ...
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How do I leave a WiFi network on OS X without turning Airport off?
I am unable to find info on how to use 'networksetup' or some other tool on OSX that will allow me to disassociate/leave a WiFi network without turning off Airport or removing the preferred networks ...
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Wifi router near fusebox
Can I place a WiFi router near our fusebox?
My concern is whether the fusebox will disturb the WiFi.
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Is there a way you can Hack Wireless Capabillities into a Gamecube?
Alright, I am getting a GameCube for really cheap from a friend, but I want it to do more than just play games, I want to run it off of Linux. I did some research, finding that some distros did ...
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How can I identify my network card in my laptop?
I have a Compaq Presario CQ57, and I had to reformat it yesterday. The OS works great, except now I can not get my wireless and ethernet to work. Under'Network Devices,' it only says 'Ethernet ...
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Detect all devices MAC address in the range of OpenMesh router
I want to detect devices which are in the range and not actually connected to the wireless router, is it possible to program the router (OpenWRT) to know the MAC addresses of those devices ?
The ...
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dmesg/syslog spam for usb device (carl9170 wifi-dongle, not related to driver, though)
So, I'm getting spammed hardcorely by my kernel (note that this is the log for only 1 second):
Feb 9 00:35:05 vanaheimr kernel: [26761.862104] usb 1-4: link qh0-00ff/f529e540 start 0 [2/0 us]
Feb 9 ...
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Can't set the Wireless configuration to “ad-hoc” in Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric)
Ubuntu doesn't allow me to connect to any ad-hoc networks. Doing a little research I find that it is my wireless settings so I executed the command that switches from Infrastructure mode to ad-hoc but ...
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Cannot access a local web server within a local Wireless network
I have a Tomcat web-server running on a machine within my home wireless network, and I'm willing to connect to it from other devices/machines. The problem is that the only way to access web server is ...
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Router/modem TG580v2 giving weird results
In my setup, I have the Thomson's TG580v2 router/modem, my PC connected to it via cable, and AppleTV, iPad and iPhone connected wirelessly.
First issue: AppleTV can't find my PC unless it is ...
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Connection problems via Wifi (multiple devices)
I'm having connection issues with my router (Linksys WRT610N) at home. There are a number of things that are happening (may be more, this is just what I've mainly noticed)...
1) Using my laptop ...
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HP Wireless Assisant causing high CPU usage
I have an HP Envy 14. Several weeks ago I found the cpu usage often up to 20%-50% even in idle. There is a process wmiprvse.exe was the killer. When I stop the HP wireless assistant, it's back to ...
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Netgear DGN2200 router drops connections / duplicates IP addresses
(I hope I am on the right StackExchange network - apologies if not as I'm visiting from stackoverflow)
We have a Netgear DGN2200 router in the office where 9 of us work. It has been fine until ...
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Windows 7 duplicate wlan network name
I have been using my home ADSL and when I had problems with it, switched to my iPhone for network access. This mostly works as planned, but I have noticed that Windows 7 creates a new network name ...
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Can attackers harvest WiFi passwords by spoofing ESSID?
I've recently started using wireless on an (Arch) laptop.
My wireless manager (wicd) is set up to automatically associate with any networks with a certain ESSID and attempt to authenticate with them.
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Wifi problems after setting router to use a static channel to accommodate an HTC Flyer
I have an HP Mini netbook and a Belkin wifi router, and both worked perfectly fine until recently. I acquired an HTC Flyer tablet, which refused to recognize my wifi router but was able to recognize ...
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Hosting an access point with linux without traffic forwarding
How can a linux computer be set up to be an "access point", but without "bridging"/forwarding traffic to/from the wired network (using WPA2 and SSID brodcasting disabled)?
The reason to do this would ...
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What is the best portable wireless router for high utilisation [closed]
Not suer if this the right forum. But I am attending a conference and will be demonstrating a product. To avoid the typical bad conference WiFi, we want to run our own wifi and server, so we'll need ...
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Is bluetooth tethering slower than Wifi?
I'm tethering a Galaxy Nexus (running Android ICS) with my Macbook Pro (2009 model, running Lion). What's the difference between bluetooth and wifi tethering in terms of:
latency
bandwidth
power ...
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How does my OS see my available network connections?
It suddenly dawned on me that I couldn't answer a (seemingly) very simple networking question!
When a computer is in an area with mutiple LAN connections to choose from, how does it even see those ...
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How can I safely share my Wi-Fi?
I'd like to set up my home Wi-Fi so that visitors can use it while preventing the visitors from accessing or seeing my home computers.
One option seems to be to have two Wi-Fi access points, one ...
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HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless printer
I replaced the black ink cartridge and still couldn't print because it now said replace the Yellow int cartridge. I replaced the Yellow and then it wanted Magenta. I replaced the Magenta and now it ...
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How can I set this WiFi network up, sharing internet through a Time Capsule?
How would I go about setting this up?
So far I have the modem and the Billion talking to each other. The internet (vsat modem) ethernet cable goes to the 'ewan' port on the Billion and is setup as ...
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Virgin Media Superhub intermittent LAN access
I have a very odd problem with my Virgin Media superhub (which is a rebranded Netgear cable modem/router).
After around 1-2 days uptime the computers connected to it will stop being able to ...
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HP Pavilion G4-1315dx and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Wireless Networking
As the title says, I have an HP Pavilion G4-1315dx Notebook.
Relevant Specs:
AMD Quad-Core
Realtek Wireless chipset
Wireless "on/off" switch is the F12 key
Initially, I completely reformatted and ...
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netsh add profile returns “An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.”
Using netsh, I used the following command to add a wireless profile
add profile filename="c:\profiles\DLINK-Profile.xml" interface="D-Link DWA-125 N150"
All parameters are valid. But I get the ...
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Netgear N600 Wireless Adapter Won't Work
So here's the situation: I've been trying to get a wireless adapter to work on my computer for a couple days now. This is my third one.
It seems my computer is having trouble recognizing the device, ...
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How to block all ports but the HTTP(S) ports on Tomato firmware?
Is there also a way to log users on the router to prevent them using illegal sites, P2P etc.?
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Disable Wifi on HP P1102W
I have several HP P1102W Laserjet printers. The WiFi is enabled by default. How can I disable it permanently? There is also a hardware WiFi button, is it possible to disable that button to prevent ...
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Ubuntu wifi network failure
I am using Ubuntu 10.04
I have a netgear wg511 wifi card
I have loaded drivers using ndiswrapper
When I boot up the drivers are not loded by default and I have to use
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper ...
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virtualbox on windows 7 -> host wireless connection interrupted when guest OS starts
I've been trying to use virtualbox on a windows 7 laptop , connected to wireless network. As a guest OS I have Ubuntu 10.10. When starting the virtual box, as soon as Ubuntu is loading (after login, ...
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Laptop loses wireless VNC connection [closed]
I'm using VNC server to connect through my wireless router to my laptop and PC.
I set a static IP to the both machines and added two virtual services to the wireless router, which is a D-LINK.
...
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Using virtualization, each Win7 guest has to get only one of several USB Wi-Fi adapters all connected to the host via USB hub
Hi All the Superusers,
I need to have several Wi-Fi equipped Windows7 guests on the host. Each guest has to be connected via Wi-Fi to its own dedicated Wi-Fi access point. All the access points are ...
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How can i configure my wpa_supplicant.conf?
How can i configure my wpa_supplicant.conf?
I am using OpenWRT in my TP-link WR841N in mode STA. But I can not connect to SMC !
I want connect to SMC by wpa_supplicant! But I know it's possible in ...
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Custom DNS for Specific Access Points [Windows 7]
I would like to use Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4) at home, but the school firewall works through DNS, so using a custom name server disables accessing the internet. Is there any way to ...
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How do I access the Linksys E2000 wireless router setup page
I'm trying to access & configure my wireless router's options.
The wireless router is a Linksys E2000 and the default gateway's IP address is 192.168.33.1
I've gotten into the router setup by ...
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Can't connect to wireless network in openSUSE
I had Windows XP. Recently I installed openSUSE Linux on my other drive. I had access to the internet through a wireless connection in Windows XP. For openSUSE I wanted to configure my wireless ...
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How to connet my Kindle (or any other device) to the internet using my laptop as a wireless router/adapter?
I tried to connect my Kindle to the internet using my laptop (Atheros AR5B97 / Acer Aspire 5742G / Windows 7) as a virtual router/adapter, by following these instructions: ...
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Windows 7 doesn't see wireless on Channel 13 - Ubuntu does
I have a dual boot laptop Dell Inspiron 1501
my wireless router is broadcasting on channel 13 (this is legal in UK, and is a good way to avoid interference with dozen of other networks in a ...
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Wifi dongle for 802.11s application [closed]
I'm looking for a Wifi dongle (either USB or SDIO) suitable for 802.11s applications. But what I found is all of them are miniPCI based (atheros chips) ; ( Thanks
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Windows 7 Professional: won't associate to the closer of two APs
In my office, the network administrator has configured two separate 802.11g/n APs with the same SSID on the same channel (6) but about 50 metres apart*. The two APs are not configured as a WDS as far ...
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Toshiba satellite C665 P5010 network devices not functioning in Ubuntu 10.04
I got a brand new Toshiba satellite C665 with Ubuntu 10.04 installed. But NetworkManager shows, 'No network devices available'. But when I ran the system testing, test detected Atheros Communications ...
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Cisco USB WiFi adapter freezes USB port when downloading too much
I’m using a Windows Vista PC on an Asus P5VD2-VM motherboard (Via P4M900/VT8237A chipset).
I’m using a Cisco WUSB54GC WiFi adapter (really made by Ralink). I use the latest driver.
When I download ...
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Authentication timed out on wireless connection
I have been experiencing a connection problem with my wireless network. Occasionally, the wireless connection would be disconnected. On the network manager itself, I would still be able to see my ...
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How do I determine how strong a WiFi device's strength is going to be?
I have been asked by my wife's cousin to suggest a WiFi access point for her house.
Her house is huge, it's probably over 500m2 over two levels with lots of rooms.
Is there any way to tell which ...
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Multiple access points with single SSID, unable to roam from one to the other
I have four access points at home all of the wired to a non-intelligent switch which is also wired to the internet access router. The DHCP and NAT service is provided by the Internet access router and ...
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Providing passwords to multiple users on a wi-fi network
I have a wi-fi network that is being used by more than 400 users. Right now they are given access by a single password which the system administrator types on the individual workstations during the ...
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dell xps l502x losing packets on wireless
I understand that this question might be a bit vague, so i'll try to add as much details as i can.
i have a dell xps l502x laptop with an Intel(R) WiFi Link 1000 BGN wireless card. I've installed the ...
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Toshiba L655D-S5066 laptop wireless intermittent
I am working on a Toshiba L655D-S5066 laptop, with Realtek inside. I believe it was working fine for a long time, but not is seems intermittent.
When you turn the unit on, there is an LED on the ...
