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AnalogRocks
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 8:04 pm Post subject: ASUS EEE PC 701 wireless connection problems in WinXP |
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I got one of these neat little toy PC's for Christmas. It won't connect to the wireless internet however.
It's running Win XP home
Has anyone had any experience with these?
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greg_mitch
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I have a PE105b with win7 Starter and it connects to my wifi-n network fine.
Try enabling the wifi (in the networking control panel) and then restarting. We had to do that for my BILs laptop when we went from wifi to hardwired with XP
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AnalogRocks
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Got it figured out, it was the Bekin router. I had it limited to 3 connections and all the DHCP leases had been taken. I expande4d those to 6 leases and off I went.
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | Got it figured out, it was the Bekin router. I had it limited to 3 connections and all the DHCP leases had been taken. I expande4d those to 6 leases and off I went. |
What is the motivation for doing that? Is that your security method?
I used to use MAC filtering as a form of security but stick to just WPA2 now.
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AnalogRocks
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Yeah it was a security measure, a forgotten one at that, There use to be allot of WiFi muchers around here when i set that up.
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I use MAC filtering, WPA2, and a tight control on the number of IP's DHCP has in a pool. And I still do not trust wireless. Yet, I just ordered two Linksys WRT54GL's (re-issue of the original WRT54G's with Linux on them) that I plan on installing Tomato on and using them strictly as wireless Ethernet switches.
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| WanMan wrote: | | I use MAC filtering, WPA2, and a tight control on the number of IP's DHCP has in a pool. And I still do not trust wireless. Yet, I just ordered two Linksys WRT54GL's (re-issue of the original WRT54G's with Linux on them) that I plan on installing Tomato on and using them strictly as wireless Ethernet switches. |
After using MAC filtering for awhile I looked into it and I read that it was one of the easiest things to foil when hacking into wifi.
Plus...it was always a pain when I had guests over who wanted to hop on...much easier to just give them the password or type it in for them.
I suppose limited the IPs is an easy enough task though...I should look into that on my router.
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I'm also placing the wireless portions on different networks. No need for them to see what's on other segments.
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