Off the Exchange\/Lync topic train but interesting enough this was for me to pass it on without writing about it.\n<\/p>\n
After a long period of laziness and ignorance of my home network, I finally got tired of buffering issues when I stream HD videos I took on vacation and decided to do something about it. I setup Linksys WRVS400N knowing all my devices do support Wireless N including my XBOX360 where I will be watching those videos.\n<\/p>\n
Since I can do Wireless N on all my devices, I decided to setup wireless as N-Only instead of mixed B\/G\/N. Once router was configured, I started with my laptop running Windows 8. As usual, it saw the new network, asked me for password and I thought that was it. Rarely it is though, isn’t it? To my surprise, it could not connect to wireless. My Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN was perfectly capable of connecting to N, so why wouldn’t it?\n<\/p>\n
So I switched the router to G\/N mixed mode and the laptop connected immediately. It certainly was something with Wireless N, but what was it?\n<\/p>\n
After a bit of research, I found out that The IEEE 802.11n Draft prohibits using High Throughput with WEP or TKIP as the unicast cipher. While I was not using WEP (I had configured WPA security), I did happen to have TKIP as my cipher on WPA! I was now staring at the answer to my problem.\n<\/p>\n
As they say, fix is 2 seconds once you find the cause of the problem. It took more than an hour to find the cause but once I did, it took me 2 seconds to switch my settings to WPA2+AES and all of my devices successfully connected!\n<\/p>\n
Now on to my vacation videos\u2026 cheers. J<\/span><\/p>\n Originally posted at http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/bshukla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Off the Exchange\/Lync topic train but interesting enough this was for me to pass it on without writing about it. After a long period of laziness and ignorance of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"\n