Airport Express with Samsung WIS09ABGN Wireless Adaptor

Hi, is that actually an option?! I am clearly an idiot but have no idea how to do this!

is that the Mac does not "do WEP", which is a security thing, then maybe the answer to the connectivity problem is to do away with any security.

That would be a matter for the Stick manufacturer, the manual and you.

See what you can glean from their website or their Support Desk.

On the subject of WEP, I could be wrong, but not being able to do WEP is a new one one me. I am using an Intel iMac, 10.6.3, and have WEP as an option for the wireless settings.

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Thanks so much for the responses..

I am going to look in to whether the Airport will handle WEP. Apple support seemed to say 'no'..

Thanks!

I have the same problem. It won't work. I tried a million different ways to connect and Airport Extreme Base with my BD-C6500 Blu Ray Player, including the no security option setting in the Airport Extreme (which has the same problem as the Airport Express). Sometimes the stick and the Airport Extreme connect, but they disconnect again without warning. Or they connect, but the internet signal is left out of the connection. This is something that they will have to fix, and in my opinion it should be Apple who should incorporate the option of WEP security in the Airport Extreme base and the Airport Express. However, I'm not sure if this is something that can be fixed with a software update or if this is a hardware issue. Hopefully is the former and not the latter.

need to beef up their security on these devices.

WEP is notoriously easy to break.


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then you have something else going on.

There is no security as such on a direct ethernet link so the TV's failure to connect to your local network would seem to be either a problem with the way your network is setup or the way that you are trying to configure the TV.

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Over in the CNET Networking forum we have http://forums.cnet.com/7723-7589_102-378511.html?tag=threadListing;forum-threads which contains some help but is never a sure thing.

All the makers of HDTV, BD players, Streamers and such never help with our networking or networks. I'm finding consumers upset about that. In my defense I've learned more than I ever wanted about networking and have a bag of cables to prove it (and a closet with spare parts.)
Bob

It depends a lot on how the manufacturer allows you to configure your device to interface with your network.

You MUST ensure that you use the same network mask, and usually it's best if you use a permanenetly assigned IP address in your LAN, instead of relying upon the router to assign it through DHCP. The trick then becomes making sure that your DHCP server function in the router doesn't step on the IP address you are manually assigning.

Usually, you can specify the range of addresses for DHCP to use, and in that case you can manually assign an IP address to your devices starting just above that range.

"It depends a lot on how the manufacturer allows you to configure your device to interface with your network."

After fixing hundreds of such networks I also have to configure the network to interface with your device.

For those that can't or won't do that, they often return the products.
Bob