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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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