WPA encrypted connection reporting as unencrypted

27 Jan 2009 5:48 PM

Niniel

Hello,

What little information I found on the web about this suggests this is a
Windoze bug, but maybe somebody here knows more and can explain it to me.
This has happened recently on 2 laptops connecting to 2 separate wireless
networks.
Upon being woken up from a period of inactivity, the wirless connection
monitor popped up a message saying that the computer was connected to the
network it's supposed to connect to, but that it was unsecured. After a while
this went away.
My thinking is that since the router encrypts the signal, there is no way
for the comptuer to connect to it and be able to browse the interwebs unless
the connection was indeed encrypted, so this popup has to be bogus.
But since this is the first time I've seen this after years of running a
secured wireless network, I am a bit nervous; maybe there are things going on
that I don't know about.
So any insight into this phenomenon would be appreciated.

Thank you.

27 Jan 2009 6:12 PM

James Egan

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:48:01 -0800, Niniel
<Nin***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>the connection was indeed encrypted, so this popup has to be bogus.

It is bogus, as you say.

>But since this is the first time I've seen this after years of running a
>secured wireless network, I am a bit nervous; maybe there are things going on
>that I don't know about.
>So any insight into this phenomenon would be appreciated.

It's similar here. Just windows getting its knickers in a twist and
nothing to worry about.

Jim.

27 Jan 2009 6:24 PM

Niniel

Cool.
Thank you, Jim!

27 Jan 2009 10:49 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
A oppose to Wire, Wireless is today depending on Windows and has no
existence on its own. So when it goes to sleep it is actually out of the
system. When it start to come up it have to "organize" itself (like people
that get up after long sleep ;) :D ).
It already in the plan by the manufacturers to start producing Wireless
hardware that would be more independent and would work a little more like
wire.
As an example currently you can No use WOL with Wireless Connection, in the
future you probably will.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).

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"Niniel" <Nin***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> What little information I found on the web about this suggests this is a
> Windoze bug, but maybe somebody here knows more and can explain it to me.
> This has happened recently on 2 laptops connecting to 2 separate wireless
> networks.
> Upon being woken up from a period of inactivity, the wirless connection
> monitor popped up a message saying that the computer was connected to the
> network it's supposed to connect to, but that it was unsecured. After a
> while
> this went away.
> My thinking is that since the router encrypts the signal, there is no way
> for the comptuer to connect to it and be able to browse the interwebs
> unless
> the connection was indeed encrypted, so this popup has to be bogus.
> But since this is the first time I've seen this after years of running a
> secured wireless network, I am a bit nervous; maybe there are things going
> on
> that I don't know about.
> So any insight into this phenomenon would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you.