Newbie setting up Wi-Fi & WEP

[mmmGuinness]

Hey Gang,
I've got a SpeedStream 2623 Wi-Fi router and 3 Orinoco Gold Wi-Fi PCMCIA cards. I got everything set up fine and wireless networking works great all through my house!

Now, I've decided to try enabling WEP (before I get chalked). It doesn't appear to work. SpeedStream's support site isn't much help except for one article that said in order to get a 3rd party PC-Card to work with a SpeedStream router, WEP must be disabled. (this wasn't in the sales brochure!)

Is this typical? I thought the benefit of a common standard was interoperability across hardware manufacturers.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Is there a work around or am I going to have to buy a new router or three new SpeedStream PCMCIA cards?

Help! :confused:

Thanks in advance,
Bryan

[JimGeier]

Everything you have is Wi-Fi, so it should work with your hardware. You'll probably need to use static WEP and ensure that the WEP key in the router and the cards is the same.

[mmmGuinness]

I'll try again, but what makes me worried is this excerpt from Article #29488 on the Speed Stream Knowledge Base:

http://kb.efficient.com/display/1/kb/article.asp?aid=29488&s=


You can connect third-party wireless adapters to the SpeedStream 2623 if the following settings are in place:

SSID: SpeedStream
Channel: 11
Encryption: disabled
Operating Mode: Infrastructure


Based on this, it looks like this router is the easiest target on the block! I've only been able to get it to work with the factory defaults, including disabled WEP!

[oshea85]

If the device can't do 40-bit WEP, then it's not 802.11b compliant, is it, Jim? Not to mention WiFi...