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Jeff
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      02-05-2005, 12:35 AM
If you are ultra paranoid beyond WPA-PSK w/long keys you
could run WPA2/Enterprise with a RADIUS server. If you
run Windows XP on PC1 there is a program called TinyPEAP
that works great or if PC1 is Windows Server use IAS.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello All,
>
>I have the following Network installed and working like a

dream:-
>
>Broadband via a cable set top box with built in modem -

Etherent cable to
>PC1 Ethernet card.
>
>Second Ethernet card from PC1 feeds an 8 port hub.
>
>8 port hub has three connections - two wired connections

to two other PC's
>and a Wire to a Wireless Access Point,
>
>Have a lap top and a fourth desktop PC with Wireless

connections that both
>connect to the WA Point without problem.
>
>Obviously for this set up to work, PC1 has to be switched

on all the time
>and acts as a server. All PC's and laptop running XP.
>
>My problem is how to make the Wireless access Point

secure - I can't seem to
>find any way to do this at all. PC1 only has two Network

Connections - one
>that brings broadband in and the second that is on the

Home Network (eg. IP
>192.168.0.01) and is a wired connection to a hub
>
>Any idea's?
>
>
>.
>

 
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