God I hate WZC on WinXP. Why does it make me type my WPA key twice? Why doesn’t it provide a way to turn on the damn echo, so I can see what I am typing. Yes I know it’s a password but after I type it for the 10th god damned time I don’t care anymore.
Oh, and for the love of god, why do you show 8 “circles” in the pre-filled password dialog regardless of how long my pass-phrase actually is? This does not inspire confidence.
Apple’s Wifi config is seriously better. (Not that it needs to be… Their supplicant actually works.)
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I was with you right up until you said Apple’s was better… WEP/WPA1 implementation is ok, but WPA2 is severely broken.
I’ve taken my work MBP to several sites, and any site with WPA2 I test… i’ve been able to connect to barely 1/3 of sites due to weird features enabled by the router that the Apple simply does not support.
We’re not talking random elcheapo asian product, we’re talking Cisco, Juniper, Proxim, Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, the Motorola I have at home. Oh and Radius support is 100% fucked in my experience.
So i’ll have to go ahead and disagree with you bro 🙂
Sounds like you have experience with more access points than I. Maybe I’ve just been lucky with my Macs.
I still hate the WinXP wireless UI tho 🙂
In fact, there’s a good reason for the “8 circles” thing: it provides shoulder surfers a bit (heh) less information to feed to their password cracker…
Ahh the eternal battle between security and usability.
Turns out Bruce Schneier agrees with me:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/the_pros_and_co.html