Problem connectiong automatically to wireless network

I'm new to wireless networking. Just bought a Di-624 router and a DWL-G520
NIC. Everything works fine unless I disable SSID broadcast or change the WEP
to "shared key". If I do either of these the card no longed automatically
connects to the network at startup, although it can still be configure to
connect manually. Is this normal?
Thanks,
Bob

Robert Sneeringer wrote:

> I'm new to wireless networking. Just bought a Di-624 router and a
> DWL-G520 NIC. Everything works fine unless I disable SSID broadcast or
> change the WEP to "shared key". If I do either of these the card no
> longed automatically connects to the network at startup, although it
> can still be configure to connect manually. Is this normal?
> Thanks,
> Bob

There is no reason to disable broadcasting the SSID. It provides you no
additional security. Change the SSID to something you will recognize,
use WEP encryption (don't change to "shared key") or WPA if all your
hardware supports it, then on your clients put in the encryption key,
disable authentication by an outside server (unless you have set up
something like a Radius server which I doubt) and you will be on your
way. Here are links to help you:

Wireless Network Setup Wizard SP2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/com...uy/cg0604.mspx

Wireless Information
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServ...w/wififaq.mspx

Wireless - Basic Configuration -
http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html
Wireless - Basic Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html

Malke
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Robert....

"Robert Sneeringer" <Robert (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:027208D1-C39F-4AD8-B3E2-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm new to wireless networking. Just bought a Di-624 router and a DWL-G520
> NIC. Everything works fine unless I disable SSID broadcast or change the
> WEP
> to "shared key". If I do either of these the card no longed automatically
> connects to the network at startup, although it can still be configure to
> connect manually. Is this normal?
> Thanks,
> Bob