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re: New Router; New card
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 7:04 am
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Posted by Norm (1367 messages posted)


If you can bypass the Encryption setup(set to none) when you are installing the card that would be the way to go. It's always a good idea to get the computers communicating before enabling the encryption.


On Friday, April 25, 2008 at 7:08 pm, Brian Person wrote:
>Our router pooped out on us and I had to get a new one. In the process of setting
>it up, I ran across a comment saying that some older computers may not be compatible
>with WPA. I remembered that.
>
>So, when my wife's computer didn't connect, I figured I needed to get a new card
>for it, which I did. My concern arose when I got to the part of the set up where
>it asks about what type of encryption I wanted to choose (TKIP or AES) and what pass
>phrase I wanted to use. I worried that if I set up a separate WPA for her card, it
>may not be able to communicate with the Router.
>
>My question: Can I skip this part and just tell it to connect?


Written in response to:
New Router; New card (Brian Person: Friday, April 25, 2008 at 7:08 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: New Router; New card (Brian Person: Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 4:07 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-New Router; New card (Brian Person: Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 7:08 pm)
-re: New Router; New card (Norm: Sat, Apr 26, 2008, 7:04 am)
-re: New Router; New card (Brian Person: Sat, Apr 26, 2008, 4:07 pm)
-re: New Router; New card (Norm: Sun, Apr 27, 2008, 10:13 am)
*re: New Router; New card (Brian Person: Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 4:22 pm)
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