Ok I know people skim a lot but did you not catch the first line that said I understand why and normally have it de-activated? I only activate it maybe 2 or 3 times a year for an evening when I have guests that I do not want to walk around helping 6 to 8 people punch in a rather LONG password to get on my network...
It was a simple technical question that I resolved. It would have been more helpful if instead of a blanket "DONT DO IT! WPS BAD", people could have answered the question and then explained why it is a good idea NOT to have WPS active for those that do not know or understand.
I originally wasn't going to post again in this thread because of the first less than useful response but decided the community only improves through sharing information. That information being that WPS would work in the situation I discussed, and any person implementing it should be allowed to make their own threat assessment as to whether they wish to run WPS or not based on information placed forth...
You didn't actually say specifically you knew of this issue :-)
Yes, it annoys me too when people don't answer the question being asked.
But I though I did answer it.
My answer was don't use WPS and just enter the key and have the DHCP assign addresses.
Anyway, no need to start a pointless argument, I'm glad your issue is resolved.
PS: Also, someone else viewing this thread might not know about ReaverWPS so I think it's good it was mentioned.
You are right I didn't specifically say it lol and the post I just made was more aimed towards the general public (partially also because of my annoyance tbh) as it annoys me when people in general ignore the main question in a thread or fail to address it in any way. I should have noted a thank you that you pointed out the specific issue that WPS has lol. No argument being looked for on my part - just hoping people make more complete helpful posts (as that is how our community will continue to grow - hell it was the reason I joined OCN!)
@PCC - TBH I do not have first hand knowledge but from what I was told by a friend more into wardriving than I was that WPS tends to have very very weak pin security (I checked out of the 6 different routers I have by resetting them to factory defaults 4 of them only had 4 digit pins unless I manually changed them! One of them had an 8 digit pin by default as well). Now for the longest while I have always been using hexadecimal strings for my pins which is why adding someone manually is a pain for me. But anyways what I learned was that for some routers the program in question just basically brute forces the pin on WPS on some routers it can even do this even AFTER WPS had been disabled. Not sure if that is still the case though.
I am fortunate I live in an area with a decent amount of distance from home to home, making wardriving a little bit more conspicuous and probably less fruitful lol.
