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So a blog. Hum never had one before so this is new. I will call this one TECH TIPS I can easily post a comment or two about my appointments each day. So why should you listen, no reason. to describe myself might help I am 25 years old and live in Southern California. For the Past year and a half I have worked for a company that provides in home tech support. I am a level 3 which is the highest level we have in “The Company.” I do not claim anything to be 100% fact here and in fact might be completely wrong but it is what I am working on everyday. So lets get this thing started
Tip 1 08.04.26 WEP VS WPA Easy as pie. WPA wins in almost all cases. when ever I am at a clients house and work on there router I always set it to WPA. On Friday I did however find this to bit me. I was at a new clients home and had to replace there router. Seeing that all of there wireless clients were newer Linksys G adaptors i assumed WPA was OK. When I set everything up it was working just fine. All clients connected and got an IP address. The next day however the client called back and she was complaining that the connection was slow and did not work half the time. When I got there I was able to do a ping test and browse simple web pages like google.com. The minute I tried to load a heavy page with flash or lots of pictures the connection gave out. After 30 min of testing many things, I pulled the USB client out of the tower and tried a new slot. to my surprise it was only a USB 1.1 port, in fact all of there ports were 1.1. So I reset the encryption level to WEP 128Bit and it worked fine. My guess is that the WPA which is often handled on the host computer was clogging the USB bus and the cause for the loss of connection.
So WPA and older computers don’t play nice. So be careful.
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