We're WIRED

[ravencallscrows]

Yup. Yesterday, they installed cable internet. Hooked the cable modem up to a wireless router. Access in the living room!

Then the fun part. Enabled Wireless Ethernet Protocol 128-bit encryption to make the whole thing a bit more secure. Unfortunately, there's an important bit missing from the configuation instructions for doing so- you can enable WEP on the router, but you can't do so from a wireless connection. Trying to do so hopelessly confuses things so that machines can't ping the router successfully, much less reach anything else. Yeah, it's all wireless, but you need a conventional CAT-5 connection to set the security. Weird. And, of course, there's not a single conventional ethernet card in the house, and the connector is missing from the card for the laptop. Not really happy about being unsecure, but for the time being i'll firewall it to death.

Comments

[hottoastermama.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah. Whatever the hell that means.... I am so stupid sometimes.

[gwynn-aaron.livejournal.com]

Out of curiousity, what kind of router are you using? I found setting everything up on the Linksys I bought for Lauren for Yule went very smoothly, though I wouldn't have run into any limitations like you're talking about since I was doing so from my computer which was and is connected to the router via cable rather than radio. I'd be very curious to hear what kind of distances you get from your setup, like how far down the street can you walk before losing the signal...

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

The router is a NetGear MR814. As soon as i can conince the laptop battery to hold a charge, i might throw the USB wireless NIC in it and find out.

[zanzibar.livejournal.com]

Congrats and may the inevitable tangles in setup pull thru like so many slipknots. :)