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Using WPA-PSK with an Inspiron 1505
I will be visiting my son over the Labor Day weekend. He and his room mate are getting cable internet service. Any tricks or traps getting an Inspiron 1505 setp with a Netgear 54 mbps. wireless router? I know about turning off broadcasting the SSID. I am wondering about getting this more secure. I was reading about turning on WPA-PSK at the router. Is there any issue setting up wireless connection at the computer? The E1505 is a few months old and running Windows Media Center.
- enable mac filtering +wpa and your sweet as with or without ssid settings changed
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volcano11
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Posted August 23rd, 2006 00:00
Turning off SSID broadcasting will make things much more complicated and really doesn't provide much additional security. If the router is set to use WPA and SSID broadcasting is enabled, then when you first attempt to connect to the router by clicking on its SSID in View Available Wireless Networks, it will ask you for the encryption key. If the SSID is not being broadcast, then you won't even see the router and will have to connect manually and enter the SSID of the router you want to connect to.
Steve