From: John Skinner (john_at_johnskinner.net)
Date: Fri Aug 12 2005 - 21:40:48 PDT
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:12:33, ames Wages james_at_kiramek.com wrote:
> I started to read this John Skinner post with eagerness, but...
> Oh! How I
> was duped! Geez!
>
> If I sound a bit upset, it's because I am.
Well, I can understand your being upset over this.
You want to know for certain if your WaveLAN Bronze can be upgraded
to a Gold card and support 128bit WEP or not.
Of all the research I've done on this, most of it came from the user
forums at http://www.netstumbler.com .
When I originally upgraded my cards, I only had Silver cards to try
this with. I have always assumed (and we know what that means...)
that this worked for all models.
I just researched there some more and found out the people have
posted that they were able to upgrade their Bronze cards to 128bit
WEP, but that it doesn't upgrade the speed to 11 Mbps. (see post here
http://www.netstumbler.org/showpost.php?p=83012&postcount=446
From what I know now, the differences between the Bronze Silver and
Gold cards are:
Bronze = no encryption, 2Mbps speed
Silver = 64bit encryption, 11Mbps speed
Gold = 128bit encryption, 11Mbps speed
So the true answer is:
No. You can not upgrade a Bronze card to a Gold card because of a
hardware limitation.
But, a bronze card can be upgraded to support 128bit WEP encryption.
Finally,
James, I apologize to you and anyone else who got their hopes up by
following this thread and reading my post saying that a Bronze card
could be upgraded to a Gold card.
I didn't know that the Bronze hardware was any different.
Now we will all know.
If you want to lean more about this (and you have a lot of time on
your hands to read through 38 pages of posts!), you can read this
NetStumbler forum at
http://www.netstumbler.org/showthread.php?t=7538
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