[Felix_Violo]

Hi everyone hope all is well,

I work at a little music store in my town. We have one computer and it is hooked up to a Netgear wireless router [it is wireless g and b capable]. My job is to change the SSID [it is something random, but I'm going to change it to our store name] and allow our customers to have free wifi.

The problem is, the security is set at "WPA-PSK [TKIP]". The network is broadcasted but I couldn't connect from my laptop. I am running the newest Ubuntu and it wouldn't connect. I looked it up, and apparently a good amount of laptop NICs do not work with this WPA-PSK [TKIP] security.

Dumbfounded, I asked my boss if it would be okay to change our security to WEP.. explaining that it should be a bit more compatible for our customers.. but I also told her that the security isn't quite as strong.

She said it's okay, as long as she still has her firewall.. so my questions for you all:

1] Should I change it to WEP?
2] The computer at work has a d-link WUA-2340 USB Adapter, will I have to reconfigure this?
3] Will my boss still have this firewall? and all of the "strong" settings she put on it?

ANY additional input would very much be appeciated. I was so stumbled with the whole "WPA-TSK [TKIP]" thing, and how it didn't connect.. I feel that this is my best option.

Thank you very very much,
-FV

EDIT: I am doing all of the changes through http://www.routerlogin.net/start.htm
-which is the Netgear site version of typing in like "192.168.X.X" or whatever.

This post has been edited by Felix_Violo: 12 September 2010 - 09:48 AM

[Felix_Violo]

UPDATE:

I fixed my problem... the problem was the network had "Access Control" enabled. Only computers that were assigned to the router via MAC address were allowed on the connection.

SO, in conclusion.. if you're ever at the situation I was at above, make sure you check the fine details about access.

Also, once I disabled access control I still had the WPA-TSK security on, I connected no problem!

-FV