Networking

Oy. A couple of months ago, my workplace switched its wireless network over from WEP to WPA2. I had to install a patch on the Palm (which cost $6 and required a hard reset) to make it work with that, but then it was fine. And I got the idea that maybe I should go to WPA on my home network, too. I did that a couple of weeks ago, without too much trouble -- except that the Palm got very flaky about connecting to the home network; it would do it sometimes, but usually only after repeated failures even when sitting a few feet from the router. Tonight, I decided to reverse the operation. (I tried going to WPA2 first, but the Behemoth laptop was having none of that.) The Behemoth laptop happily connected to the reconstituted WEP network, but then wouldn't actually connect to any sites until it got a (rather overdue) reboot. Beetle the Eee was fine with the change; the desktop switched over without missing a beat. The Palm -- still isn't sure about this connecting-to-the-net business. (Though it's fine with all the other networks it meets; it's been connected to another WEP home network, the Phoenix airport free wifi and the UofA public wifi just today.)

I did manage to get it to sync my Plucker version of the latest Shadow Unit, though.