Serious HELP needed, on Airport Extreme

Hi.
I was wondering if anyone here could help me out, the thing I was looking, for is there any application where I can view the people who are connecting to my base station?
I know you can put a password on it, but I just want a application where I can either accept or decline somebody, and view there name or something...
+(I can't put a password on anyway as I have family that use the network connection in my house, and there on Windows machines, that can't connect when I have a password on for some reason...!)+
If anyone can help, please do, I'd really appreciate it.

It sounds like you attempted to use WEP for your wireless network encryption. You should use WPA, as WEP is no longer considered secure, but if you need to use WEP to support older devices, you need to know that one of the problems with WEP is that the actual standard relies on a 10 character HEX key for 40bit WEP and a 26 character HEX key for 128bit WEP.
In order to make things easier, vendors use certain algorithms to convert simple alphanumeric passwords (or passphrases) into HEX keys, thus enabling the use of simple easy to remember WEP password rather than lengthy HEX keys. The problem is that different vendors use different algorithms to generate the HEX key and therefore a ASCII password on an AEBS will be hashed differently on a non-Apple client and vice versa.
You may find the following articles helpful:
o Accessing a Airport Network with a Windows XP PC or laptop (with XP SP2)
o Apple article, especially the part about "Third-party client to Airport".

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