Got a strange problem here and I'm going to lay the blame on vista 64 bit. Setup a wifi network that was previously unencrypted to WPA-PSK (TKIP). As WEP is no use anymore, WPA-TKIP is the next step up. I've only ever had problems before with WPA2 (AES) with some versions of XP not letting you put in the right number of characters and etc.
I've connected 3 different XP machines to this WPA network with different manufacturers of wifi cards/dongles.
The Vista 64 machine just won't connect. Gives the usual "connecting it taking longer than expected" error. tried 3 different wifi dongles, including 2 that work on the XP computers.
Any ideas or pointers for whats going wrong? Help would be much appreciated. The PC connected fine before encryption. DHCP is setup and I can't think of anything else to test. Its Vista 64 bit RC1.
Much thanks as I'm really stuck,
Dan Gent


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), it might stop neighbours' computers from automatically picking your access point or deter them from stealing your bandwidth but as mentioned anyone who knows a bit about it could crack it and have full access in just a few minutes. If you have the choice, WPA2-AES is far better then WPA-TKIP but then WPA-TKIP is far better than nothing or WEP. WPA-TKIP isn't quite universally supported, there are a lot of devices which only support WEP or even nothing but yeah nearly everything does support it. Not supporting WPA2-AES is a bad choice really since WPA-TKIP was only intended to be a stop-gap between the increasingly broken WEP and an upcoming 'proper' protocol. Weak keys shouldn't be used either, even on WPA2-AES - why bother trying to break the encryption if you can guess the password? No dictionary words or phrases should be used, using a long, random key is the best thing to do but it involves putting it in a text document and moving it between PCs unless you feel like typing it, here's a good random key generator, the middle box is best for WPA(2):
