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Force wireless connections by MAC addresses?

Hello.

I recently read about how there are public WAPs/hotspots out that can be dangerous as dummy/fake ones (evil twins). Are there ways to connect to the correct WAP based on MAC address?

I recently saw two WAPs that had the same SSIDs, but with different MAC addresses:

00-0C... 00-0F...

One of them goes up and down, and I am assuming that is the evil twin and could be dangerous to be on (don't want to take the risk). In my Envara Configuration Utility v2.5.1 (3/18/2004) in XP Pro. SP1-SP2 (all updates) with a Hawking Technology's Hi-Gain USB Wireless-G Adapter Model: HWU54D), I cannot seem to force connecting to one. I believe it gets confused because there are two exact SSID names seen.

Thank you in advance.

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ANTant
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Ralink card? How did you find that out? I thought it was using WiND chipset?

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takes me to Intel's Web site.

Maybe. I cannot confirm it and I am not taking any chances.

Where can I get it assuming it is supported. Envara Utility doesn't have this feature. :( I got the driver and software from

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ANTant

I have that hawking tech card, its actually a ralink card. I have two AP's on one LAN with same ssid's and same encryption's, different channels, different MAC's. Of course when I am near one it has great signal while the far one is somewhat weaker and variable. Maybe somebody's hacked it and made it a man in the middle, evil twin,, ya think ?

The raylink utility has check box to allow fast roaming at any level signal [-70 default] dbm, but it'll choose best signal at windows start up.

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bumtracks

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