Re: [NTLK] Wavelan Silver = Orinoco Silver ?

From: Woody Smith <woodysmith_at_comcast.net>
Date: Mon Jun 08 2009 - 14:12:49 EDT

If you have a PC laptop and do a little searching the 'Silver' cards
can be flashed to 'Gold'.
this among other things allows 128 bit WEP

Woody

On Jun 8, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Morgan Aldridge wrote:

> Yeah, most of the Orinoco & WaveLAN cards were just different stickers
> slapped on the same card.
>
> Remember that the "Silver" cards only have 40-bit WEP, so you'd really
> want to look for a "Gold" to get full 128-bit WEP support. There's
> much discussion around WEP security, but the truth is that 40-bit WEP
> is not better than none, but 128-bit is.
>
> Morgan Aldridge
> ---

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