How do you drop an unknown wireless client?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=Black]And why not MAC address filtering for you? All you would have had to do is uncheck the neighbor in the client list.

It may be a little more involved than "unchecking the client". Generally, you need to enable MAC address filtering and then type the allowed WiFi MAC addresses into the settings.
I'm not sure about this without checking (which I can't do while at work), but I believe my AEBS allows me to exclude specific MAC addresses. My old D-Link DIR-655 also did, for that matter.

[silvarios]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote: Agreed. silvarios assumes every user out there is an IP expert - an excellent assumption if your goal is to maximize your WLAN security, but that is clearly not Dakota's goal here.

No, Black is just being purposely obtuse instead of admitting he really doesn't understand how MAC address filtering works.

If Dakota wanted to use MAC address filtering he could. After all, that was the first suggestion presented. Since Dakota keeps asking for an alternative, I supplied one.

[silvarios]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote: I'm not sure about this without checking (which I can't do while at work), but I believe my AEBS allows me to exclude specific MAC addresses. My old D-Link DIR-655 also did, for that matter.

I don't think so. My Airport Extreme (the newest model) doesn't support anything other than whitelisting. Which makes sense, there are comparatively fewer MAC addresses you want to allow compared to the unknown number of MAC addresses you want to disallow.

[Jimmypoo]

deckeda wrote:
Or buy a different WiFi adapter for a few bucks that completely fixes this issue.

They just don't work that way for Mac stuff. I just barely hang using the OWC/RealTek because of the app.
I've had 1/2 dozen other brands--even using the same chipset.

I can't find a Broadcom USB anymore. So I used a Belkin 192.x.x.x router to pick up the USB, and plugged
it into the Airport (no conflicts - different IP set) and they used two different security sets - one used WEP
and the Airport to Airport Extreme uses WPA2.

Until I got the OWC adapter - which at least works on the G4 (though will not work on my iMac G3s -
on any of them, so I bought old Airport cards instead.