The two routers are different, because my gf is on ADSL and at home we are on 100mb broadband. Her router is pretty basic, but both the Pismo and my G4 Ibook work like a charm. Up until upgrading to 100mb, we had a Superhub v1, but because we upgraded, they had to give us a gigabit router / modem. It looks physically identically to the old one and the software looks the same to, with the exception that they've removed WEP from the list of encryptions. The access points have different names, but encryption wise they are both set up to use WPA. Specifically so the older machines will continue to work.

The Superhub will let me setup guest hotspots, so I've even setup an unsecure hotspot for test purposes. As one would imagine, the Pismo locked on straight away with no issue. But as soon as I set the hotspot to WPA-PSK or WPA-Auto, it would stop working.

I'm not using an Apple Base station, but that doesn't mean that the new modem they have given me is some how incompatible with the Pismo. Though I have other old windows machines that use WPA and seem to work fine with our WIFI.

My Airport card is using Firmware 9.52, I dont know if that is the latest for this card. I had noticed that WPA2 was listed but I just assumed OS X was listing me all the encryptions, not necesseraly what my laptop could do. Thanks for the tip, up until now everything I'd read, led me to think the original airport cards only supported WEP and WPA.

AichEss said:

Is your router set up exactly like your GF's in every single itty bitty detail?

You have the router wireless set to accommodate 802.11b?

You have the correct wireless channel set?

My Pismo will not/cannot configure the gen 5 & later Apple base stations.

Incidentally the Apple AirPort card will do WPA2 Personal with anything later than OS X 10.2.8.

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