Wifi woes

Mekon

Mekon

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I recently got ADSL at the new place I'm staying in. Desktop pc is fine as it is connected straight to the router. My laptop is another story. It sees the router and I put in the WPA key and it attempts to connect but it just wont. This is XP pro machine and it's a Telkom Duoplus 300 router. Anyone know what the problem could be. I have set up numerous routers before but this is the first Telkom router I have used.:(
 
I also had some issues using wifi for mobile phone, laptop, AC Ryan and PS 3. Now I use open connection but set up the wifi router to only allow the MAC adresses for them. It is just as save, if not more, and everything connects.

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chriz said:
I also had some issues using wifi for mobile phone, laptop, AC Ryan and PS 3. Now I use open connection but set up the wifi router to only allow the MAC adresses for them. It is just as save, if not more, and everything connects.

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This is not even remotely close to safe, you do know that you can change a computers MAC address and there is tools to sniff wireless connections. so anyone can just see which MAC addresses is being used and then try using those on his computer.
 
chriz said:
I also had some issues using wifi for mobile phone, laptop, AC Ryan and PS 3. Now I use open connection but set up the wifi router to only allow the MAC adresses for them. It is just as save, if not more, and everything connects.

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What's your address? I need to know where I can get free internet when on the road.
 
Uuum no. MAC addresses are hardcoded, it is the one thing you cannot change.
 
MAC spoofing is lovely for places that offers 20 minutes free WiFi access to a single MAC address :D

You can change the MAC address of pretty much any network card under the network card's properties in Device Manager, like renierp said.

I often used MAC spoofing at University, when someone got a new PC and didn't want to take their PC in for registration again, so I then just forced their new PC's MAC address to match their old PC's MAC address.
This had it's own problems of course, like when you format, then your MAC address returns to hardware default again.

I miss the days of messing about on a big network such as the University residential network :(
 
Are you using a proxy? If so disable the proxy settings in your internet connections/lan settings in ie. Just untick the checkbox. I get that problem if I use my work laptop on a wifi connection as it is proxy dependant.
 
Pada said:
MAC spoofing is lovely for places that offers 20 minutes free WiFi access to a single MAC address :D

You can change the MAC address of pretty much any network card under the network card's properties in Device Manager, like renierp said.

I often used MAC spoofing at University, when someone got a new PC and didn't want to take their PC in for registration again, so I then just forced their new PC's MAC address to match their old PC's MAC address.
This had it's own problems of course, like when you format, then your MAC address returns to hardware default again.

I miss the days of messing about on a big network such as the University residential network :(
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I stand corrected.
Although spoofing and physical altering isn’t really the same thing
Lol

http://whatismyipaddress.com/change-mac
 
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