From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [69.61.178.198] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 1073185 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:02:53 -0400 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:02:15 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]The 'Final' Nail in WEP's Coffin? Message-ID: On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:29:19 -0700, Neil Waldhauer wrote: >On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:42:34 -0400 (EDT), "Carl Gehr" > wrote: > >> Either eCS provides support, or users will find that they >> can no longer attach to any wireless site that cares about a >> secure network. > >I'm sure that's true, but in several years of using wireless on eCS, I haven't >encountered a public, secure network. > >The current GenMac/XWLan is quite nice for using public, unsecured wireless. I >use it often. > >Neil Neil, While you are certainly correct about 'hot spot' access, there is the implication in the article that WEP is/should be removed from any APs that are sold in the future in order to encourage better security. So, let's say I want to improve the speed of MY network from the 802.11b that I currently have, to 802.11g. I need a new router/AP, but it does not support WEP, only WPA2 to promote a more secure environment. Of course, when I make the router/AP change, I would expect to use my new TPad T60s that support 'g' access and WPA2. Oops! Cannot do this because neither the Intel PRO/1000 [8086:109A] nor the Intel 3945 a/b/g [8086h:4227h] adapters. [OT for this list, but no audio support either; applicable because it is a netlabs.org project as are the two network adapters.] How does eCS exist should this happen? Carl