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post #1 of 8
12/24/04 at 3:00pm
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Hello,
I have had my wireless network setup for about a year now, though I never had it secured. So today I want to set up WEP on my wireless router. I went to my router's config page and went to WEP. So my question is that how would I configure my wireless card in my lappy to the router's encryption key?
Here's a pic of the router's page where I would type in the WEP key.

So I do not know where I would configure my wireless card in my laptop to the WEP encryption key.
The only configure thingy that I know of is this, but it can't do much with it..

Help?
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post #2 of 8
12/24/04 at 3:07pm
The wireless util will prompt you that the AP you are connecting to is WEP enabled and ask for the key.
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post #3 of 8
12/24/04 at 3:13pm
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Ah, ok, I will go ahead and try it then, but which encryption strength should I set, 64bit or 128bit or even 152 bit? Does it really matter?
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post #4 of 8
12/24/04 at 6:56pm
basically, the simpler the wep key, the less degradation in performance you will meet. I would suggest you use the simplest wep key there if you do alot of networking activities within your home network. If u hardly do any, use the highest encryption, couldnt hurt anyway. Unless you got some really determined people which want to get into your comp as neighbours, i would doubt u need anything beyond 64bit as any wep key deters pretty much 99% of people trying to access your network without your permission.
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post #5 of 8
12/24/04 at 7:05pm
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Alright, I set up the 64bit key, no more problems
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post #6 of 8
12/24/04 at 7:07pm
It would also be interesting to see the DHCP logs of your router after 1 year uptime with no WEP.
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post #7 of 8
12/24/04 at 7:16pm
lol, i remeber some guy who's neighbours managed to crack his wep key and was using his internet connection for free for a month or so. Too bad for the neighbour they forgot that this sword had two edges and as a result, he had 20GB of horse porn on his comp the following day and no internet access.
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post #8 of 8
12/24/04 at 7:17pm
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Meh, my neighbors are either old people or ummmm more old people. I don't think they even know what a router is
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