Linksys Wireless Router Help

glears · Post by **glears** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:41 am

I've just setup a wireless network and wanted to add some security. I'm using the 64bit encription key and have setup some MAC filters to only allow a specific wireless card to connect. Now I wanted to disable the broadcast of the SSID. By doing so, my pc that has the wireless card cannot find the network. I'm also having a very low signal. Does anyone know what I can do to increase the signal and is the low signal the reason I cannot connect to the router when the SSID is not being broadcasted.

Router: Linksys WRT54G Wireless G 54Mbs.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:23 am

What OS do you have? If XP, do you have service pack 2?
What wireless adapter? Does the adapter support WPA? If so, it's easier to setup, and better.

Some wireless setups have issues when SSID broadcast is disabled.

glears · Post by **glears** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:58 am

The pc is runing Windows XP with service pack 2. It has a Linksys Wireless G PCI card. I'm using WEP as a form of encription for the security.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon May 02, 2005 1:41 pm

glears wrote:I'm using WEP as a form of encription for the security.

Try using WPA as I suggested, WEP is old, getting out dated, WPA is newer, stronger security, and on top of that, wonderfully easy to implement.

glears · Post by **glears** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:02 am

How would you setup the client pc's config for using WPA. I don't see anything refering to WPA. Would it be the Shared Key in Windows XP?