After I bought my iPod and fell in love with iTunes, I was even further immersed in the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field. Then after reading the positive comments on JZ's Airport Express inquiry I was feeling the need for a portable wireless access point, some cool streaming music, and an Apple product less expensive than a new G4 Powerbook, I picked up an Airport Express last weekend.
My initial testing was nice and smooth. Quick, easy setup, and within minutes I was up and connected to the WEP-free network at J$'s house. However, things got particularly nasty when I tried to connect to my 128-bit WEP network at home.
The trick? Thanks to this guy, I found out that you have to preface the WEP key in the airport setup with a '$' character.
Where the HELL was that in the Apple docs? I have no idea how my new friend Simon came up with that answer, but it worked for me.
And allegedly, this is tremendously easier with a homogenous Apple Airport network. But interoperability has never really been the hallmark of Cupertino, has it?
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