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Old 06-10-2007, 07:14 PM
Jeff Liebermann
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Default Re: First time home wireless - how to match PC to router - setup question

Julie Bove <juliebove@verizon.net> hath wroth:

>Does my guess pan out that "Personal" was originally styled for Macintosh
>computers while the more gruff acronym "PSK" was for Windows PCs?
>Julie


Nope. Wi-Fi is platform agnostic. If anything, Unix and Linux would
be the most favored operating system of the standards producers. I'm
going to preserve my sanity and NOT lookup when the first mention of
either term appeared. My foggy memory seems to recall that WPA-PSK
was first used, which later mutated into WPA-Personal, as apparently
required for router certification.

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