Semi OT - Wireness networking; SE4 as as server

Ed Kolis · #1 January 26th, 2004, 12:54 AM

So I set up a wireless network at home, between the family PC and my laptop. Except I couldn't figure out how to set up Wireless Encryption Protocol on the network... anyone have any idea how to do that? I tried setting both the computers to connect with a WEP key, but then they can't see the network. I'm thinking there's something I have to set with my router and maybe it doesn't support WEP, but it did say on the box it supported some sort of encryption... I just don't want anyone driving by to be able to detect a network, suck up my Internet bandwidth and put incriminating files on my machine!

Should I have gone for one of the fancy $200 routers instead of the basic $70 kind?

Also, the router came with some firewall software and now when I launch SE4 it says it's trying to act as a server, do I want to allow or block it!

Is SE4 supposed to do that, or do I have a virus in my SE4 executable?

geoschmo · #2 January 26th, 2004, 01:08 AM

This came up a long time ago. I don't remember exactly what it was but you might find it in a forum search. From what I remember it's some part of the exeutable code that deals with the tcp/ip play Version. It's not actually trying to connect to anything, but it's touching some windows file that your firewall is sensitive too. It's not doing anything wrong, but this is apparently something that bad programs do also. Your firewall can only detect the act, not the intentions behind it. If that makes sense. Going on memory. I could have that all wrong.

Ed Kolis · #3 January 26th, 2004, 02:00 AM

All right, so it's nothing I need to worry about. That's what I thought - thanks!

Now if anyone around here knows about WEP...

Ragnarok · #4 January 26th, 2004, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
All right, so it's nothing I need to worry about. That's what I thought - thanks!

Now if anyone around here knows about WEP...

We have some WAP's here at work and I haven't been able to get WEP to work either. For protection I have just used MAC address filtering; while not the most secure method we haven't had any problems with it. I will continue working on the WEP problem here until I figure it out.

Do you live in the city, Ed? If you didn't then I wouldn't worry about it too much since I doubt anyone will go around driving in the rural areas with a wireless card looking for someone to invade.

Fyron · #5 January 26th, 2004, 06:35 PM

What sort of router did you get? (including brand name)