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Still holding on to that 802.11g router? It’s time to step up to a network that delivers the performance a modern household or home business needs for rapid backups, high-definition movie streaming, and stutter-free online multiplayer gaming. What you need is a dual brand router, one that can transmit simultaneously on both the 2.4-GHz frequency, which has better range but lower throughput and on the 5.0-GHz frequency, which offer higher throughput, but shorter range. We took three models for a spin that promise to let you live in the wireless fast lane.
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Introduction

This tutorial walks you through cracking WPA/WPA2 networks which use pre-shared keys. I recommend you do some background reading to better understand what WPA/WPA2 is. The Wiki links page has a WPA/WPA2 section.

WPA/WPA2 supports many types of authentication beyond pre-shared keys. aircrack-ng can ONLY crack pre-shared keys. So make sure airodump-ng shows the network as having the authentication type of PSK, otherwise, don’t bother trying to crack it. Continue reading »