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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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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> 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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bumtracks <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have that hawking tech card,
> its actually a ralink card.

Ralink card? How did you find that out? I thought it was using WiND chipset?
http://www.envara.com/ takes me to Intel's Web site.


> 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 ?

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


> 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.

Where can I get it assuming it is supported. Envara Utility doesn't have
this feature. I got the driver and software from
http://www.hawkingtech.com/images/drivers/HWU54D.zip ...


> > 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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