Wireless networking can kiss my ass *RANT - Keep this crap!!*

[MichaelD]

Fck it. I will run 50+ feet of CAT5e, terminate it myself and be done with it.

My DSL router is also a 802.11a/g wireless router. I followed the instructions, created a 128-bit WEP key. Installed a Linksys 802.11g wireless NIC, attempted to configure it.

I got TWO networks but the one I wanted; MINE. I guess they were my neighbors. I found one guys' kid's sofball pics and another guys music. Big deal. I DIDN"T get MY network.

Fcuk it. Tomorrow, I return the wireless NIC and run the damn cable. What a bunch of crap.

I can configure a W2K3 Enterprise network for 1,000+ clients, complete w/DNS/DHCP/SAV/SUS/SMS and database sharing...but I couldn't get my own shiit to work!!! Fck it. WIRED is the way to go.

I already uninstalled the hardware and driver and boxed up the NIC.

This wireless crap seems to have two settings:

1. Wide open. EAsy to configure but you're wide open; i.e. my neighbors
2. Locked down. Safe as food in front of Mary Kate, but impossible for anyone, including me, to get to.:roll:

 

[Hubris]

Way to stick it out.

 

[MaxDSP]

here's a :beer: for you n0ob


<---successfully setup his wireless 802.11g network a few months back but the POS D-Link router crapped out on him so he's back to wires

 

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: MichaelD


This wireless crap seems to have two settings:

1. Wide open. EAsy to configure but you're wide open; i.e. my neighbors
2. Locked down. Safe as food in front of Mary Kate, but impossible for anyone, including me, to get to.:roll:

:thumbsup:

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Hubris
Way to stick it out.

Four hours...that's about how much free time I have after work, Mon-Thurs, total. I.E. I wasted about 1/2 of my free time this weekend messing w/this. :roll:

 

[Turkish]

cry me a river bitch

 

[WarDemon666]

took me 2 mins to set up my router and network card!

If you need help setting it up ill be more then happy to give you a hand

wireless ROCKS

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: The Boss
cry me a river bitch

lol

 

[z0mb13]

wow you cant set up a simple wireless network?

you are teh old!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Pssh. Keep the NIC, return your router. Free internet!

- M4H

 

[WarDemon666]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Pssh. Keep the NIC, return your router. Free internet!

- M4H

HAHAHAH!!! NICE! :thumbsup:

bad boy!

 

[HappyPuppy]

MichaelD, did you turn off ALL of your software firewalls before trying to get it set up?

 

[WarDemon666]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
MichaelD, did you turn off ALL of your software firewalls before trying to get it set up?

True,

also, check for long/short preamble settings.!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Happily surfing on a secured WEP enabled wireless home network.

 

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Happily surfing on a secured WEP enabled wireless home network.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: WarDemon666

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Pssh. Keep the NIC, return your router. Free internet!

- M4H

HAHAHAH!!! NICE! :thumbsup:

bad boy!

Goddamn right. Some tit set up an unsecured Linksys next door to my nicely secured WPA-PSK AES encrypted unbroadcasting VPN-enabled "Super Lockdown" network, and the bastard's walking all over the channels. :|

Time for a little judicious use of AirPwn.

- M4H

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Happily surfing on a secured WEP enabled wireless home network.

Secure? WEP? LMAO!

- M4H

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
MichaelD, did you turn off ALL of your software firewalls before trying to get it set up?

Hmm.

/thinking

No. I didn't. But I didn't get any popups from Symantec Client Firewall either. I am fairly well-versed in the wired world, but a newb in the wireless one. Half the time I couldn't even SEE my own network. The rest of the time, I'd see it, but couldn't connect, even though I had the correct 128-bit key.

The ease w/which I got on my neighbor's network was scary. If I wasn't so pissed off at getting my own shiit to work, I'd have moved some of his files around, just b/c I could. :evil:

 

[WarDemon666]

its so easy to crack wireless networks, too bad I cant get any from IN my house heheh

My network is the most secure! mac addr filters

 

[RagingBITCH]

You're just a n00b Did you even try it without a WEP key?

 

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Happily surfing on a secured WEP enabled wireless home network.

Secure? WEP? LMAO!

- M4H

M4H, it's secure when your neighbors are dumb-blondes, illiterate taxi drivers, and Mexicans.

 

[blahblah99]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Fck it. I will run 50+ feet of CAT5e, terminate it myself and be done with it.

My DSL router is also a 802.11a/g wireless router. I followed the instructions, created a 128-bit WEP key. Installed a Linksys 802.11g wireless NIC, attempted to configure it.

I got TWO networks but the one I wanted; MINE. I guess they were my neighbors. I found one guys' kid's sofball pics and another guys music. Big deal. I DIDN"T get MY network.

Fcuk it. Tomorrow, I return the wireless NIC and run the damn cable. What a bunch of crap.

I can configure a W2K3 Enterprise network for 1,000+ clients, complete w/DNS/DHCP/SAV/SUS/SMS and database sharing...but I couldn't get my own shiit to work!!! Fck it. WIRED is the way to go.

I already uninstalled the hardware and driver and boxed up the NIC.

This wireless crap seems to have two settings:

1. Wide open. EAsy to configure but you're wide open; i.e. my neighbors
2. Locked down. Safe as food in front of Mary Kate, but impossible for anyone, including me, to get to.:roll:

You have a linksys... that's your problem right there.

 

[WarDemon666]

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Happily surfing on a secured WEP enabled wireless home network.

Secure? WEP? LMAO!

- M4H

M4H, it's secure when your neighbors are dumb-blondes, illiterate taxi drivers, and Mexicans.

rofl

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: WarDemon666
its so easy to crack wireless networks, too bad I cant get any from IN my house heheh

My network is the most secure! mac addr filters

*goes into network settings*
*changes MAC address of NIC to an approved one*

I'm sorry, you were saying?

- M4H

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Happily surfing on a secured WEP enabled wireless home network.

Secure? WEP? LMAO!

- M4H

M4H, it's secure when your neighbors are dumb-blondes, illiterate taxi drivers, and Mexicans.

Touché.

- M4H