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D-Link wireless router and an iMac - how do you switch on WEP encryption?
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I have a Time Warner broadband connection, and with it came a D-Link WBR-1310 wireless router, that supports WEP encryption.
D-Link WBR-1310 Wireless G Router
It didn't come with a manual, and so I don't know how to switch on or use WEP encryption, which, so I read on this forum, is necessary to protect one's personal network from others reading your pages or surfing on your connection.
Is WEP encryption and a password something I create on the Mac? Or is it something on the CD that came with it?
How does this router (802.11g standard) compare to AirPort express and its 802.11n standard? (I know I should have asked this before buying. Stress, stress, stress...)
I suppose not, but is it fast enough to support the 5Mb/sec download speed that Time Warner promises?
Would you recommend selling it, and getting Apple's AirPort? (Would the express version do?)
Thanks!
(Last edited by Veltliner; Apr 3, 2008 at 08:02 PM.
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It should have come with a manual. Or a users guide. Or a quick start guide. Or something. But since you found the website, why not read the manual there?
Anyway, point your web browser to 192.168.0.1, enter the username/password from the manual, go to the wireless or security tab, and turn on WEP (or better, WPA(2)) and set the key.
Compared to the Airport Express, it's a third the price and has four times as many LAN ports. But it doesn't support connecting a printer/speakers and of course 802.11g is slower than 802.11n... then again if you don't have 802.11n clients, 802.11n is pointless. It's more than fast enough for typical home broadband connections. I'd keep it.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
It should have come with a manual. Or a users guide. Or a quick start guide. Or something. But since you found the website, why not read the manual there?
Anyway, point your web browser to 192.168.0.1, enter the username/password from the manual, go to the wireless or security tab, and turn on WEP (or better, WPA(2)) and set the key.
Compared to the Airport Express, it's a third the price and has four times as many LAN ports. But it doesn't support connecting a printer/speakers and of course 802.11g is slower than 802.11n... then again if you don't have 802.11n clients, 802.11n is pointless. It's more than fast enough for typical home broadband connections. I'd keep it.
Thanks.
The manual wasn't available at the time I posted this thread. I can't remember the excuse I got instead of the PdF of the manual when clicking on the link.
Good to know the D-Link manages those 5mb/sec.
And, no, I don't have any wireless printers anyway. I'm using an older hewlett-packard LaserJet 6MP, which uses my Ethernet port via an old jetDirect 300X router. I don't want to give that printer up, as its print quality is simply marvelous. Almost like typeset.
I have never heard of WPA(2). Is it something that came after WEP? I read on this forum, that WPA (obviously version 1) was outdated, and that WEP was better.
So WPA(2) is even more reliable than WEP. So I'll set the router to this encryption standard.
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WPA is not outdated and is much better than WEP.
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WEP was first (and got a bad name due to some common implementation deficiencies), then came WPA and finally WPA2.
WEP is fine if you have devices that need it (some don't support WPA), but if not there's no reason to go with it over WPA/2.
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Originally Posted by Veltliner
I have never heard of WPA(2). Is it something that came after WEP? I read on this forum, that WPA (obviously version 1) was outdated, and that WEP was better.
 What in the world gave you that idea?
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
What in the world gave you that idea?
Chaos theory.
It's also called a human error.
And I acknowledged that in the post above and the link.
Am I acquitted from a trial?
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Originally Posted by mduell
WEP was first (and got a bad name due to some common implementation deficiencies), then came WPA and finally WPA2.
WEP is fine if you have devices that need it (some don't support WPA), but if not there's no reason to go with it over WPA/2.
WPA it will be.
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