I have spent days trying to get a new Vista Laptop to connect to a WEP-encrypted network...with much frustration. At first I got it to the point where I entered a WEP passphrase but then it was asking me for a domain logon. That would be fine if there was 802.11 Authentication, but there was none. At one point it finally connected, i have no idea how, and it worked for a few days. However, when it got disconnected, i could never reconnect. After many retries and getting authentication dialogs and could not login errors, i turned to some searching. After not finding much helpful information online, i was about to try just going unsecured, but i saw a post that said Vista drops WEP in and out. So i switched to WPA2 and Vista seems to be ok with that. We have a saying for this at work...VISATA SUCKS!
So if you have any Vista machines on your network, you probably want to try something other than WEP for encryption. Not to mention WEP's numerous vulnerabilities.
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