Airport Extreme & WPA

Just wondering what the airport extreme card is like with WPA? The wireless network i'm going to attach it to does not use the AP Extreme or Express does that make a difference?
Thanks

Just wondering what the airport extreme card is like
with WPA? The wireless network i'm going to attach it
to does not use the AP Extreme or Express does that
make a difference?
Peter,
I'm using a 1.33Ghz 17" Aluminium PowerBook G4, 1.5GB of RAM, with an Airport Extreme card built-in at order time, along with a Netgear WG302 Access Point plugged into a Netgear FVS318v3 Firewall VPN Router. I am currently using WPA2 Personal level security with my laptop & everything is working great.
In order to get the best transfer rates possible, I am using IPNetTuner (with a custom script) from Sustainable Softworks.
Regarding both software & hardware: I have no interest in or other connection to the two companies mentioned.
I happen to be a disabled programmer/analyst with enough healthy-free time "on my hands" to do my research and pick out the components I think will work best for my projects.
After reading how ineffective WEP security is, I knew from the get-go that I wanted WPA or WPA2. Fact is, if I could figure it out (still working on it), I would run a Radius Server and use WPA2 Enterprise level security.
Although some may disagree with my choice of Netgear products, both items are from the business-class of products called the "Pro-Safe" line of gear. After much reading, I felt that they would best suit my needs / budget, and my curiosity to explore new technology I haven't worked with before (networking). HTH.
Regards,
Albert
G4 QuickSilver01 OWC 1.47Ghz CPU 1.5GB RAM 740GB HD Mac OS X (10.4.3) 17" Al PowerBook G4 1.5GB RAM 75GB HD Aiport Extreme Card

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I hope someone can help!!!!
thanks.

Is the password you are using limited to letters and numbers - no punctuation or other strange characters?
This really should work. The fact it doesn't suggests to me that some other setting is not being chosen correctly. As I mentioned this above select "WPA Personal" with TKIP (not AES) encryption. As a second choice, select "WPA2 Personal". Make sure the WinXP software drivers for its wireless interface are up to date.

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Backtracking here, when I do lose it I often just go to SysPrefs and check on what happened. If I double click on the network connection it has a popup window that will show you the password. (SysPrefs/Network/configure/) That password is not what I entered, but it's a very, very long combination of leters and numbers. Is this part of the WPA encription?

My AE password is set to a very simple memorable combination, one the whole family can remember.
Why? That also makes it easy to guess. Usually you only need to enter the password once and the Mac remembers it. Therefore it does not need to be memorable to mere humans.
You are probably seeing the hexadecimal equivalent of the password.
See if you find a solution in KB 304482, Mac OS X 10.4.8: AirPort does not auto-connect to existing networks after restart or wake from sleep.

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Welcome to the discussions, arbee!
1) Connecting to the Time Capsule for setup. MUST I use Airport Utility or is there another method?
AirPort Utility is the only application available to configure the Time Capsule
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During setup, you specify how you would like the device to connect, Ethernet or PPPoE
3) I assume I can continue to let both machines connect using DHCP.
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Is there a way to connect an old Sunflower iMac (OSX 10.4.11) to a new Time Capsule? It used to work with old Airport Extreme network, run from a intel iMac with updates thru Mavericks but now seems to only allow WEP encryption instead of WPA and can't connect to Time Capsule. Airport Extreme Base was controllable from either computer up through Snow Leopard (I didn't do any of the Lion upgrades). Then when I upgraded to Mavericks I lost the ability to use Airport Utility with this hardware on the Sunflower but could still connect wirelessly to network without any problems. But now with the Time Capsule upgrade the Sunflower is blocked from network by a dialogue that requests ony WEP password, not WPA pwd used by Time Capsule. Neither can I use the old airport extreme base to extend the time capsule network since I can't input the correct password/encryption approach to join it. Is there a work around? Would a newer but old Airport Express be able to extend network to Sunflower? Or maybe a third party wireless (such as Netgear, Dlink, etc) that has browser type control rather than special utility?
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Is there a way to connect an old Sunflower iMac (OSX 10.4.11) to a new Time Capsule?
I can’t claim to completely grasp the issue(s) you’re describing, but the underlying problem is presumably your iMac’s obsolete AirPort card. Whatever the case, an obvious (if not particularly helpful) answer to your stated question would be to connect your iMac with an ethernet cable, using powerline adapters as an alternative if you don’t want to have wire running all over the place.
My still fully functional clamshell iBook, with an original AirPort card, connects wirelessly to my 4th Generation TC network by means of a cheap 802.11b/g/n USB Wi-Fi adapter. This might be an option for you too.
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How do find the WPA for Airport Extreme?

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If you don't remember the password, you can retrieve it from your Keychain as follows:
Run the Keychain Access utility found in \Applications\Utilities
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Not really sure how to ask this but here goes.
I have a bt router as my main router in my house which I want to continue using. It is WPA protected and I want to keep it that way. However I have some devices that will only connect with WEP. So I was wondering if there is a way to setup my airport extreme to be a WEP protected network so I can use this only for the WEP devices and use my other router for my other devices and connections as it is more secure.
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Whatever you choose for the WiFi network name.
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This is probably the simplest way to get the G3 connected to the wireless network.
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