Note: This is a personal finding and not a comprehensive guide.
I've found that newer Macs and Android share something. While older Macs seem capable of selecting their security settings from WPA or WPA2 or a conjoined WPA/WPA2 setting, newer Macs and Android appear to have one conjoined WPA/WPA2 setting.
Now, the Belkin router that I use lets me select under its Security settings WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK or WPA-PSK + WPA2-PSK. The final setting seems to work fine with all computers but the newer Mac, which was struggling to reconnect after sleep.
Changing the setting to WPA2-PSK and manually setting IP addresses fixed this, but then an Android (v.2.2.1) phone refused to connect. Finally, I set the router to WPA-PSK and all on the network were happy.
More on configuring wireless security on a Belkin Router can be found here.
I've found that newer Macs and Android share something. While older Macs seem capable of selecting their security settings from WPA or WPA2 or a conjoined WPA/WPA2 setting, newer Macs and Android appear to have one conjoined WPA/WPA2 setting.
Now, the Belkin router that I use lets me select under its Security settings WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK or WPA-PSK + WPA2-PSK. The final setting seems to work fine with all computers but the newer Mac, which was struggling to reconnect after sleep.
Changing the setting to WPA2-PSK and manually setting IP addresses fixed this, but then an Android (v.2.2.1) phone refused to connect. Finally, I set the router to WPA-PSK and all on the network were happy.
More on configuring wireless security on a Belkin Router can be found here.
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