In an earlier post I was having problems with my MBP losing its wifi connection without apparent reason. On a whim I decided to downgrade from WPA2 to WPA encryption, and what do you know, the connection never dropped, even after leaving my MBP on all night long. Considering that I was using WEP+MAC filtering just a few weeks back before switching to the new router & WPA2, I’m still more secure now with WPA+MAC filtering. Not that there is anything really interesting to sniff on my network anyways. I’m hoping that when I upgrade the MBP to OS X 10.5 (Leopard), I can go back to WPA2.

Now I just need to get the Xbox 360 back on my network so that I can waste endless hours that I don’t have playing Halo 3. The Xbox was hard-wired to my Airport Express which was acting as a WDS repeater, but now that I’ve moved to WPA, I don’t think WDS works anymore. I’ve been wanted to wire up my house for Gig-E for a while so maybe this will be the tipping point!

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