Re: Can anyone help with this question?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:39:36 GMT

If you're currently using XP's Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) rather than the PRO/set connection manager, to connect wirelessly with one of your computers, you can find the wireless key fairly easily...

1) Open View Available Wireless Networks, select the desired network

2) In the Network Tasks list choose 'Set up a wireless network ...', then click Next

3) Check the 'Add new computers or devices ...' radio button and click Next

4) Change the selection from Use a USB flash drive (recommended) to 'Setup a network manually' and click Next

5) Click the Print Settings button and a Notepad window will open with the required credentials all in the clear.

6) Minimize the Notepad window and click Finish on the wizard; you can either print the file or just transcribe the key.

vista and win7 encrypt those data. So you have to use their wireless network wizards with a USB flash memory stick (you cannot do it manually because they won't tell you the key in the clear). 7/vista's settings cannot be imported into XP, either (nor vice-versa). You can NOT do it with a USB stick in XP if you're using recommended encryption standards, because that wizard will break WPA2 settings on the Wireless Networks tab. (it actually changes the selection in that network's profile to WPA, so as soon as you've exported the settings to a USB stick, that computer will no longer connect to that network wirelessly! Just one more thing that won't get fixed, to 'encourage' upgrading from XP :-).

Message was edited twice by: Darr247 (typos; + added wizard exports won't import between 7/vista and XP)

Re: Changing 20 to 40 Mhz channel Wi-Fi Intel 5300 on 2,4Ghz band

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:08:15 GMT

I think you would have to hack the firmware to do so, if it's possible at all. To help protect their installed bases of legacy 802.11b/802.11g products, Apple, Cisco and Intel do not support 40MHz-wide channels in the 2.4GHz band because that would mean occupying 2 out of the 3 non-overlapping channels available there. Still, you could switch to a Linksys adapter... even though owned by Cisco, Linksys products support wide channels in the 2.4GHz band. Or you could switch to 5GHz. There are over a dozen non-overlapping channels up there in the U-NII bands.

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