[robocup-humanoid] Question about the WiFi setting

[Sathit Wanitchaikit]

That's alright. Thanks Jacky :)

Kind Regards

Sathit Wanitchaikit
TeamKMUTT
Institute of Field Robotics (FIBO)
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
Thailand
Tel: 66-2-4709701
Fax: 66-2-4709703
Email: jabberwock at fibo.kmutt.ac.th


Jacky Baltes wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> WEP is fine with me too.
>  
> However, I think we never had a problem with rogue clients connecting 
> to an access point.
> I do remember people having problems with WEP before 
> (incompatibilities between their WEP and the access points 
> implementation), but if that is not the case this year, we can use WEP 
> for all.
>  
> CU,
>    Jacky
>  
>
>
>  
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Sathit Wanitchaikit 
> <jabberwock at fibo.kmutt.ac.th <mailto:jabberwock at fibo.kmutt.ac.th>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, Jacky
>
>     I agree with you to keep the setup simple as possible, but I think
>     we need something to reduce the interference from outsiders who
>     try to connect to our access point. I've proposed the WEP to
>     ensure that only participants of humanoid league can connect to
>     our access point. So, this will help stabilizing and reducing the
>     interference. Can we reconsider it? :)
>
>
>     Kind Regards
>
>     Sathit Wanitchaikit
>     TeamKMUTT
>     Institute of Field Robotics (FIBO)
>     King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
>     Thailand
>     Tel: 66-2-4709701
>     Fax: 66-2-4709703
>
>     Email: jabberwock at fibo.kmutt.ac.th
>     <mailto:jabberwock at fibo.kmutt.ac.th>
>
>
>     Jacky Baltes wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I think we should definitely keep the Wifi setup as simple as
>>     possible, since teams always have problems connecting to it
>>     because of interference from other devices.
>>
>>     In my view, since the access points are not connected to the
>>     Internet, we can get away without any WEP or WPA security.
>>
>>     CU,
>>        Jacky
>>
>>     On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Sathit Wanitchaikit
>>     <jabberwock at fibo.kmutt.ac.th
>>     <mailto:jabberwock at fibo.kmutt.ac.th>> wrote:
>>
>>         Dear Technical Comittees and whoms may concern
>>
>>         I would like to ask you about the WiFi setting at competition
>>         day. Have
>>         you communicate to the OC to select the security type of the
>>         WiFi (WEP
>>         or WPA) for humanoid league? If you haven't done yet, can I
>>         suggest you
>>         to use WEP security. In my opinion, we should use the WEP,
>>         cause it
>>         doesn't need special configuration on the hardware of the
>>         client side,
>>         thus many brands of WiFi module can easily connect to the
>>         OC's access
>>         point with minimal security.
>>
>>         Kind Regards
>>
>>         Sathit Wanitchaikit
>>         TeamKMUTT
>>         Institute of Field Robotics (FIBO)
>>         King Mongkut's University of Technology (KMUTT)
>>         Thailand
>>         Tel: 66-2-4709703
>>         Fax: 66-2-4709701
>>         Email: jabberwock at fibo.kmutt.ac.th
>>         <mailto:jabberwock at fibo.kmutt.ac.th> a
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>>
>>     -- 
>>     Jacky Baltes, EITC E2-402 Department of Computer Science,
>>     University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Jacky Baltes, EITC E2-402 Department of Computer Science, University 
> of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
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> Email: jacky (AT) cs.umanitoba.ca <http://cs.umanitoba.ca>
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