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AirTunes/Airport Express, WEP, and Netgear routers
Authored by: carl201167 on Feb 21, '06 02:06:46PM

Thanks - this sorted it out for me

However, as a how-to guide, it might benefit from being written more simply for more basic users - it made my head spin a bit to see all those DHCP and SSID terms

But, anyway I did it in the end, so thank you



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AirTunes/Airport Express, WEP, and Netgear routers
Authored by: micmath on Mar 25, '06 09:02:27AM

Okay, after stressing about how to type a hex-encoded password to the point that I started to wonder if I had actually forgotten what the damned password was, I logged onto the router by entering it's set-up address: http://192.168.0.1 in Safari and started to consider if I wanted to just turn WEP off. Then I noticed an option under the "Wireless Settings" menu, called "Wireless Station Access List". From what I can tell this allows you to restrict the devices that can access the wireless network by specific MAC address numbers (that's Media Access Control address, not Mac-intosh address, every computer, even PC's, have unique MAC addresses). So I found my iBook's MAC address by clicking (Apple) - About This Mac - More Info... - Network tab. Copied it off the pane, it's formatted like nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn

Back to the router set-up web page: On the "Wireless Station Access List" page I added my iBook's MAC address to the "Add New Station Manually" form (just make up any "Device Name" you like, it's for your reference, not the router's -- I called mine "My iBook"). Then I hit the "apply" button and went back to the Wireless settings page, and disabled WEP. Now when I try to connect I'm not prompted for a password at all (hex or otherwise) but, I presume, the router checks my MAC address against it's list before letting me connect. Tada, I'm writing this wirelessly now!



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AirTunes/Airport Express, WEP, and Netgear routers
Authored by: gannett on Apr 11, '06 01:16:44PM

A couple of points to mention on the way doing this process. ..
Firstly you have to tweek the OSX firewall to allow itunes to connect to remote speakers.
Secondly if you use MAC addresses to limit access to your wireless net then you have to be careful what number to use as the Wired interface has a different MAC address to the wireless one. If you configure over the wired interface you will see a different MAC address. Use the Netgear, Wireless settings, wireless station access list view to see the MAC address of the Airport Express when it is active.
Thirdly you can not use the Airport Express as a remote wired to wireless net bridge. It is limited to using one net interface at once.



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