** Reply to message from Julian Thomas <jt@jt-mj.net> on Thu, 22 Sep 2005
08:49:17 -0400
> In trying to get wireless to work in a Hampton Inn the other night, I
> picked up their "help" document. I should note that I had a good signal
> strength, and the process got as far as their authentication screen, but
> after that there was no internet connection.
>
> At any rate, their instructions (which you can see at
> http://bright.net/~lindaz/hampton-inn/hampton.html say to set up a
> wireless network:
>
> You are going to add in the hhonors manually to do this select ADD on the
> bottom left corner and type the hhonors in the the field listed as Network
> Name (SSID)
I almost understand the paragraph above. This may be because I had a Hemmi
Seishakusho bamboo sliderule in 1948 -50. The "almost" is the key word, because
there were scales on that sliderule that I do not understand to this day, and
that had no parallel on the K&E sliderule I had after that period.
.
> Also make sure you have checks in the option
> Data Encryption (WEP enabled) and This key is provided for me
> automatically.
>
> Now I have a XWLan profile with the ssid set, but don't understand
> (neither does XWLAN) WEP with an automatically provided key. FWIW I was
> unable to get it to work in Win2k either; and the Cisco Aironet utility
> didn't seem to understand automatic key provision either.
Not only don't I understand it, I don't know what security it would provide if
it is issued automagically.
> They told me at the desk the next day that there had been a lot of
> problems with their provider (apparently they use local ISPs).
This I understand.
--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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