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[Stateless Component] Making the BSNL DataOne Wireless: So, Here is my Step-By-Step guide to configuring a Wi-Fi network with BSNL DataOne. Though many wireless routers claim that it is a no-brainer setup to configure the wireless network, I found it to be not as easy as it looks to be.

[Wi-Fi Networking News] Another Take on Simple Security: Atheros was pretty rambunctious about discussing Broadcom's SecureEasySetup in contrast with their own JumpStart. I spoke with Colin Macnab, Atheros's vice president of marketing and business development, and Kevin Hayes, one of the developers of this standard for Atheros who is actively involved in security at the Wi-Fi Alliance and the 802.11i Task Group at the IEEE.

 [Blogs.msdn.com] Joe Davies's WebLog: The November 2004 TechNet Cable Guy article, titled "Wi-Fi Protected Access Data Encryption and Integrity", describes how Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) replaces Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) with the combination of the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which provides data confidentiality through encryption, and Michael, which provides data integrity. This article also describes the details of the WPA encryption and decryption processes.

 [Forums.scotsnewsletter.com] Scot's Newsletter Forums > Wi-Fi Wireless LAN Security: For the brave and not faint of heart who have a Linksys WRT54G router/wireless access point, there is a beta firmware from tinyPEAP that you can upload to the WRT54G to add a RADIUS server to the device. This is a beta firmware and is not suppported by Linksys so you risk voiding your warranty.

[Popularmechanics.com] Technology Tuesday 10/28/03: Netgear's WGT624 router comes equipped with a 4-port 10/100Mpbs Ethernet switch, a double firewall (NAT and SPI), 64- and 152-bit WEP encryption, multiple VPN (virtual private network) pass-through support, intrusion detection, WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) support and a Smart Wizard to easily set the whole thing up. Also included is a Smart Wizard Assisted Firmware Update feature, which will come in handy for the firmware upgrade release set for this month.

[Techrepublic.com.com] Windows XP Service Pack 2: How it affects wireless networking: If you want to manually assign a WEP key, you can choose either a five- or 13-character key, or a 10- or 26-character hexadecimal key. If you manually assign a WPA key, you can create a key with up to 63 characters (minimum of eight characters) or a 64-character hexadecimal key.

[Dailywireless.org] Daily Wireless - Netgear MIMO in Japan: It offers complete security using a double firewall with Network Address Translation (NAT) and Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), along with Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP) 64, 128 -bit encryption and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA, Pre-Shared Key). In addition, the router offers Privacy Control and Management features such as URL content filtering.

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