access connection - setting encryption of signal in profiles

[jack-meller1]

Dear Forum,

Today I tried to access a Wifi with my newly installed Thinkpad (XP Pro). I was happy to see

that Access Connections was given a facelift and now connecting to a network seems easier.

with the old version I had this problem:

AC gave me full control and lots of details about how to configure the connection, e.g. when

connecting to a protected wifi I could select different encryptions and keys. The downside

was that usually you never get these required information. In a hotel or a conference the

staff usually just knows the password but not whether the signal is WPA or WPA2 with TKIP or

AES and how many bits etc.

In contrast to this with the original Windows wifi control panel it was a piece of cake to

get connected. My colleagues just pressed "connect", then a dialog with a single line

appeared and you could enter the pwd, the encryption mode was identified by Win itself.

First time ever original Win software beats a Thinkpad. I didn´t use it though since only AC

is able to automatically switch from Wifi to ethernet when changing location.

With the new version I have this problem:

When opening the new AC today I was fascinated by the new single line dialogue in which I

could enter the pwd. So finally somebody learned from others. I typed in the pwd, but got an

error. when investigating the problem I right-clicked on the connection profile for more

infos and had to learn, that AC characterises the connection as non-encrypted which was

wrong. Problem though is that if you don´t really connect successfully once AC let´s you not

enter the location profile properties, so no way of changing the encryption manually.

I finally, as I was at a friends house, asked him to remove the signals encryption for a

little moment, I established a connection with this now open network and was then able to

enter the properties dialogue for this location profile, where I then entered the pwd and

the encryption mode. when we switched on encryption again, all went well.

Friends, am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug in AC that it cannot detect encryption

itself? If so I think that´s a huge drawback to Access Connecdtion.

Thanks for reading

Peter


using X31 Win XP Pro