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Originally Posted by soulmirror

I read through a few of these threads too, and it seems that AES is an alternative to TKIP (which is the standard sort of protocol for setting up the authorization between the host and client). TKIP and AES are both methods of communicating, that then allow you to use a PSK (pre-shared key) to password in. AES is the standard method on WPA2 networks, but TKIP is most common on WPA1 networks. My network at home is set up so that it is WPA2 by default, but allows devices that cannot handle WPA2 to back down to WPA-1. Under this system, my iBook logs into the network using WPA2 and my Axim using WPA1. My Axim is set for TKIP. What can you tell us about your network? If it is a WPA2-only network, I do not think the Axim will be able to connect, from what I can tell. If it is not a WPA2-only network, or you have some measure of control over it, can you set it up the way I described above, or would you consider that to be too much of a security risk? WPA1 with TKIP should be adequately secure in most instances... while WPA2 seems to be more secure, it has been stressed by the standards committee, IIRC, that WPA2 is *not* intended to be a beefing up of security over WPA1, primarily, but rather addresses some unique requirements of certain large security customers, while delivering better standardization for everyone else.... Does any of that help? Have you tried setting your AXIM to WPA with TKIP and logging in that way?

Currently I have a Buffalo 54G Router that has WPA-AES (it does not have WPA2 capabilities).... I dont want to set up as WPA-TKIP because of the fact there's a performance hit when using it as opposed to WPA-AES which is less of a performance hit. I googled WPA-AES and WM5 does support it... But Im scratching my head onto how to configure it...