Problem with new xbox slim and wpa2 security

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Just picked up an xbox slim recently for the daughter and trying to get it to play nice with the engenius 9850 router. It's not working, well kind of.

I have a wpa2 preshared passphrase on the network and have mac address filtering set up for the wireless.

I went in to the filter and added the mac address from the wireless on the xbox, saved, rebooted the router, power-cycled the xbox.

Configured the xbox with the passphrase, it finds the network and id's the wpa2 security. Router is 'n/b/g'. With wpa2 turned on, and the mac address listed and filtering on, it will NOT pass the connection test. If I turn off the filter, but leave on wpa2, it connects.

Any thoughts?

 

[spidey07]

Probably just have the wrong mac address. Mac address filtering really is pretty useless though. With a strong WPA2 key, NOBODY is going to connect to your network or be able to decode anything. Just don't use it, it's a very old left over "security" feature that offers no real security at all as mac addresses are sent in the clear and it's about the easiest thing to "hack".

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Well are you sure you entered the right MAC address? Not the ethernet one the wireless one?

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

When I get home I'll doublecheck the Mac and see if I pulled a bonehead move like that. Oh I hope not.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

nope, mac correct. connects with wpa2 passphrase ok IF mac filter is turned off, turn on filter and when router cycles to apply changes the connection is dropped and will not reconnect.

 

[drebo]

nope, mac correct. connects with wpa2 passphrase ok IF mac filter is turned off, turn on filter and when router cycles to apply changes the connection is dropped and will not reconnect.

As spidey said, just leave MAC filtering off. It's not useful.