OK, so I'm in the IT field. And I'm lazy. Let's face it, I work on this sh[/i]it all day, I don't want to go home and work on it all night too.
Still, when I bought a townhouse and moved back in June I did a half-assed job of locking down my wireless network. Then, I got a laptop from work and when I tried adding it I had a few bugs and didn't feel like working through them. So I just opened the gates and connected figuring ***** it. If someone wants to dig through my sh[i]it their not going to find anything except some gaming files and lots of **** they could find in 5 minutes on the web anyways.
However, after a visit from my cousin (who's also in the field) and being rediculed for not locking my network down I decided to spend the time to get it down right. So the other night I began the process, which went pretty smoothly until I discovered that even though I could connect with my laptop and 2 desktop machines, I couldn't get an IP from the router for the 2 desktops. The laptop worked fine. This befuddled me, as I couldn't figure out why the laptop would work but not the two desktops. They worked before. So after some scratching of my head (and my ***) I said ***** it, and worry about it the next night.
At work the next day, I mentioned my problem to one of our Net Admin types, and he asked what kind of wireless cards I was using. I told him I was pretty sure they were Microsoft ones, and he said that they don't support WEP encryption. So if that's the encryption I was using then that was why they wouldn't talk.
That night, I switched from WEP encryption to WPA AES and it worked like a charm. Got all 3 talking, locked down by MAC address, then turned of the broadcasting so no one even knows I'm there. All ninja-like.
The point of this post? There isn't one really. I just somehow wanted to incorporate some kinda post with a goose's as[i][/i]shole. And I figured the Asylum would sleep much better tonight, knowing that Kakar's **** collection is secure.