Re: Problem setting up Encryption with Wireless Network

Jake Wade wrote:
> I am in the process of setting up aWireless Network at home
> :-
> 1 x desktop, upstairs
> 1 x laptop, location anywhere
> broadband phone connection down stairs.
> Equipment = D-Link USB dongle for the PC
> D-Link Modem/Router
> Laptop is Wi-Fi ready (- but not D-Link)
> The set up is up and running OK but without encryption. I am
> trying to set up encryption in windows XP but can find no
> information on what the NETWORK KEY should consist of for
> WEP encryption?
> All letters??, numbers?? or a mixture??
> Advice requested.!

Read the manual that comes with or is online for your router.
WEP is usually entered as some passkey you make up on the router - then you
have to enter a rather nasty set of characters that produces into your PC to
connect.
WPA - which is better than WEP - is a passcode system.

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