N95 Display/W/Lan settings

To get rid of the calendar - MENU > TOOLS > SETTINGS > GENERAL > PERSONALISATION > ACTIVE STANDBY then choose 'off'.

As for the WiFi thing, WLAN, it seems to me, is all smoke and mirrors. Mine's working okay at the moment but I seem to have got to this point by banging randomly at the keyboard like some sort of semi-trained chimp.

Are you using the Easy WLAN wizard to connect?

Thanks for that..Think i might give the internet browsing a miss it was recking my head last night tbh.

i disabled any sort of encryption and it started finding my router fine. Maybe if there enc in the live box, disable that ... ??

N95 is very poor with encryption by the looks of things. VERY SAD !!:icon13: :icon13: :icon13:

Try WEP encryption. It should work fine.

raid517 wrote:Try WEP encryption. It should work fine.

But be aware that WEP is not secure in any way. It is as good (or bad) as an open wlan, really.

PMitchell wrote:But be aware that WEP is not secure in any way. It is as good (or bad) as an open wlan, really.

My ne 95 is finding my lan, but on trying to connect to the net, it comes up with "Gateway not found" any ideas please.

Thanks

PMitchell wrote:But be aware that WEP is not secure in any way. It is as good (or bad) as an open wlan, really.

Really this is being overplayed on this forum.

It provides *moderate security* - security, that if you live in a fairly rural setting, or are not surrounded by lots of other WLANS in the area is probably 'good enough'.

It can be hacked (but then so also can WPA), but then you could also be the subject of a spoof email/phishing attack from something that looks like it's from your bank etc, or someone could rifle through your bins and commit ID theft, or you could go out on the street and be mugged tomorrow. The point of all of this is that yes there is a risk, but cracking WEP can still takes knowledge - and isn't something that the vast majority of every day users would know how to do.

People who say things like this are often perfectly happy to use the same password for all of their online banking and credit card payments etc. and these passwords are often infinitely less secure than any 128 Bit WEP key will ever be.

Yes it is certainly preferable if you can use WPA (or better), but the problem that has been pointed out before is that the N95 often does not work very well with WPA and certain routers.

So you have to make a choice between having *moderate security*, or no security at all.

WEP will certainly in most cases stop your neighbours from leeching off of your wireless network - although it is unlikely to stop a determined hacker from doing the same. But again, the question that arises and one that you need to answer for yourself, is realistically, just how many hardcore hackers (or just general geek types) do you have living within a 100 or so feet of you, or how many people do you know who would be prepared to park up outside your door, day in and day out, just to use your wireless network?

There is certainly a risk that someone might, but people on the whole aren't always very good at assessing this risk.

Anyway I do think this statement is inaccurate. WEP, although not ideal, still provides considerably *better than nothing* security.

Either that, or possibly just learn to put up with the idea of not using WLAN on your N95 at all.

wep / wpa both work fine for me.

but you need to make sure you disable power saving under the wlan advanced config. Don't ask why, it just works!

PMitchell wrote:But be aware that WEP is not secure in any way. It is as good (or bad) as an open wlan, really.

as for this, it depends on what your benchmark is for secure.

WEP is more than adequate for most users - as its highly unlikely that anyone will really want to sit with wepcrack / aircrack for days and gather enough data to brute force the encryption key from ARP requests sent between the clients and AP's.

WPA is a lot more secure in that it takes longer to hack but it's still using static keys which can also be broken using similar techniques (not for discussion here - plus really really really can't be arsed to explain 😊 )

To a wardriver (someone who wants to use your wireless for free), all they're really after is an open WLAN. They're not going to be able to gather enough data to crack a wep password in a few minutes to an hour (again, the very determined will find a way but people that skilled will most likely not care about someone reading their daily spam).

jman200x wrote:wep / wpa both work fine for me.

but you need to make sure you disable power saving under the wlan advanced config. Don't ask why, it just works!

Like I said, it seems to depend on your router/WLAN set up.

Some work fine with both, some only work well with WPA, some only work with WEP. You just have to experiement and see what works.