Connecting Buffalo NAS wirelessly
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Posted by F on March 10, 2008, 9:54 am
Please log in for more thread options Universal Range Extender' to add to my network. The existing network consists of a '3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless 11g Firewall Router 3CRWE754G72-A' which connects to my Windows computer using Cat 5 and to my laptop and PDA using the wireless connection. This basic network, with MAC address filtering and 64-bit WEP encryption, works fine over both the Cat 5 and wireless. I have got the LinkStation plugged into the Belkin with the supplied Cat 5 cable and have got the Belkin set up as a what Belkin describe as a 'Wireless Range Extender'. I've given both the Buffalo and the Belkin fixed IP addresses (192.168.1.12 and 192.168.1.15). Set up like this I can connect to the Buffalo wirelessly and transfer files. I have added MAC address filtering to the Belkin and the 3Com and, again, can transfer files wirelessly. However, once I add 64-bit WEP encryption (only 64-bit WEP as my PDA has nothing stronger) to the 3Com and Belkin they fail to connect and the Belkin's red 'Searching' LED flashes continuously. After all that, can anyone explain (in nice easy words please) what I need to do to add 64-bit WEP encryption back into the network please? TIA -- F (Beware of spam trap - remove the negative) | |||||||||||||
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Posted by F on March 10, 2008, 10:46 am
Please log in for more thread options Just in case it's relevant, that should have been 'Windows Vista Home Premium computer' and 'Windows XP Home laptop' -- F (Beware of spam trap - remove the negative) | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Peter Pan on March 10, 2008, 11:23 am
Please log in for more thread options F wrote:
> I've just got a 'Buffalo LinkStation' and a 'Belkin F5D7132 Wireless G
> Universal Range Extender' to add to my network. > > The existing network consists of a '3Com OfficeConnect ADSL Wireless > 11g Firewall Router 3CRWE754G72-A' which connects to my Windows > computer using Cat 5 and to my laptop and PDA using the wireless > connection. This basic network, with MAC address filtering and 64-bit > WEP encryption, works fine over both the Cat 5 and wireless. > > I have got the LinkStation plugged into the Belkin with the supplied > Cat 5 cable and have got the Belkin set up as a what Belkin describe > as a 'Wireless Range Extender'. I've given both the Buffalo and the > Belkin fixed IP addresses (192.168.1.12 and 192.168.1.15). Set up > like this I can connect to the Buffalo wirelessly and transfer files. > I have added MAC address filtering to the Belkin and the 3Com and, > again, can transfer files wirelessly. > > However, once I add 64-bit WEP encryption (only 64-bit WEP as my PDA > has nothing stronger) to the 3Com and Belkin they fail to connect and > the Belkin's red 'Searching' LED flashes continuously. > > After all that, can anyone explain (in nice easy words please) what I > need to do to add 64-bit WEP encryption back into the network please? > > TIA Try using the hex value for the key (my pda converts ascii different than my laptop, so I just use the hex representation now), and for now, turn off the mac address filter (you didn't say if you added the pda's mac adress too, just the belkin and 3com) | |||||||||||||
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Posted by F on March 10, 2008, 11:36 am
Please log in for more thread options On 10/03/2008 15:23 Peter Pan wrote:
> Try using the hex value for the key
Done that but access still fails. > (you didn't say if you added the pda's mac adress too,
> just the belkin and 3com) I've entered the MAC address of anything and everything I've got into both the Belkin and 3Com, but I can try turning it off when I get back to it later. Thanks for the suggestions. -- F (Beware of spam trap - remove the negative) | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Peter Pan on March 10, 2008, 2:44 pm
Please log in for more thread options F wrote:
> On 10/03/2008 15:23 Peter Pan wrote:
> >> Try using the hex value for the key
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> Done that but access still fails. > >> (you didn't say if you added the pda's mac adress too,
>> just the belkin and 3com) >
> I've entered the MAC address of anything and everything I've got into > both the Belkin and 3Com, but I can try turning it off when I get back > to it later. > > Thanks for the suggestions. Just out of curiosity, have you tried turning off the range extender? as long as you are doing the wep turn off, can you try that too? (PS does the PDA access the original wap's ssid or the range extenders? (some range extenders work sort of funny, for debugging I just play george jetson and turn everything off, and then turn things back on one by one till they fail) Another oddity, while I have the stuff set for a longer wep phrase (6 ascii characters in the wap/router), mine only looks like it only actually takes 5 characters/10 Hex Charcters... On my wap/router i put in 6 characters for a wep key, but on the PDA I only have 5 (10 as hex stuff) Maybe the PDA in actuality only supports 40 bit? (my ipaq and dell only did that)... As an aside, I forget which pda you said you had, but there are programs ut there that support WPA (I used to do that until I added Tivo's that only support WEP, so I had to dial it back) | |||||||||||||
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> Firewall Router 3CRWE754G72-A' which connects to my Windows computer
> using Cat 5 and to my laptop