Live Search on Verizon DSL WIFI WEP

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No, no offense taken at all but I can follow directions as well as the next. I may have to clarify some things as I don't do these things everyday or make a living at it. All the different configuration screens jumble together at some point. Yep, spot on. Linksys WRE54G. I actually try to help out the poor souls on the forum as this device was not ready to be released on an unsuspecting public. I'm actually not connecting the 6700 through the RE to the network but I know it is only b-compliant. I have an old Jornada 820 on a b-card hooked to the network so the router is in mixed mode. So I have learned alot....

Yes, I was at PHX a couple weeks back and hooked into the unsecured, free Sky Harbor WIFI network. Live Search worked like a charm. That's what clued me into the security. I will try disabling the WEP this weekend. Maybe it just hates my router. It is the offbrand Westell that Verizon gave free.

The 6700 is fairly new. Just got it in November. They gave a bit of a deal as it was the last one. Didn't know much about PPCs at the time and didn't know it was EOL. I don't have alot of stuff on it. When it was WM5 and new I just set up the WIFI, downloaded Yahoo, and the Live Search. That's it. At that time, I did not test out all the other WIFI and data connection scenarios and just uninstalled Live Search as "bad". I've never heard anyone else have a problem so I just recently became "obsessed" with getting it to work at home. I'm really not that bad off as others as I can get Live Search to work under certain conditions.

I probably won't mess with WM6 as I like the ROM. I don't have any issues with it freezing or needing alot of soft resets or not working with Voice Commander.

Here's a couple of other off the wall questions you should easily be able to answer. How does the ROM install/uninstall programs or files and not need to be defragged? Or are their defrag programs for WM6? Next question, there are like 6 or 7 network adapters listed on the connection adapter tab. Which one controls the internal 6700 WIFI? I tried to set the DNS per Ran-O-Matic and Computercarl on the one that said WLAN but it had absolutely no effect on the WIFI connection. Lastly, as far as security is concerned, is MAC filtering just as "effective" as WEP? I thought that I could activate that pretty easily through the Network Magic program I'm running on the laptops if the WEP happens to be the problem. Oh, and I do get an IP address issued to the 6700 192.168.1.47. Don't have a ping utility for the 6700, though.

Again, I sincerely appreciate all the thread traffic from Weed, Ran, and Carl. I knew it was a weird question when I started.

Edit: Just rereading the posts about the DNS issue. I actually can't load a webpage that everyone else (Microsoft forum) said is active: wls.live.com. It is supposed to be where you can download Live Search. IE could never connect to it. I had to download from ls.windowsmobile.com.