Re: Access Point connects to internet on labtop Mac, but not desktop windows!

azurecoyote <azurecoyote.2tlgew@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> hath wroth:

>I recently bought a wireless-g access point to connect to my router to
>have wireless internet. Right away my labtop mac picked up the access
>point's wireless internet. It works fine in using it now to write this.
>But when I went to set it up with my desktop windows XP it connected and
>setup with the access point. But it goes back and forth between being
>connected and not connected. Along with that when it is connected to
>the access point it says my adapter(linksys wireless-g adapter) is
>connented but there is no internet connected to my router/accesspoint.
>but there is internet connected!because my labtop is working fine with
>the wireless access point!! I have no clue what to do. I already called
>the company for linksys, but I dont know!:confused::confused::(:(

Hmmm... No models, no numbers, no error messages... Ok, you get a bad
guess and a general answer.

My guess(tm) is that you're using WEP. WEP has a problem converting
from the ASCII encryption key to the Hex equivalent. It's not a bug.
If you use the Hex key, instead of the ASCII key on your Windoze
machine, it will work.

However, you should be using WPA-Personal, instead of WEP. WEP can be
cracked in minutes and is next to useless for encryption.

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