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Cannot connect on unprotected wireless networkWhile visiting my mom, I switched on my laptop and the message popped up "wireless network
found". I discovered it is unprotected but, despite that, I could not make a connection (it was just a try, no attempt to "steal" anything). For my knowledge, why does this happen ?? Thanks, Mike Aloha Mike,
"Unprotected" just means they don't have WEP or WPA enabled. They might have MAC filtering turned on. -Ben- Ben M. Schorr - MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm Show quoteHide quote > While visiting my mom, I switched on my laptop and the message popped > up "wireless network > found". I discovered it is unprotected but, despite that, I could not > make a connection > (it was just a try, no attempt to "steal" anything). For my knowledge, > why does this > happen ?? > Thanks, > Mike > Thanks Ben, I sort of figured that.
Mike Show quoteHide quote "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" <b***@bogusaddress.mvp> wrote in message news:d9d27ad411f1f38c8ddd70a30987e@msnews.microsoft.com... > Aloha Mike, > > "Unprotected" just means they don't have WEP or WPA enabled. They might have MAC > filtering turned on. > > -Ben- > Ben M. Schorr - MVP > Roland Schorr & Tower > http://www.rolandschorr.com > Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm > >> While visiting my mom, I switched on my laptop and the message popped >> up "wireless network >> found". I discovered it is unprotected but, despite that, I could not >> make a connection >> (it was just a try, no attempt to "steal" anything). For my knowledge, >> why does this >> happen ?? >> Thanks, >> Mike >> > > 
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