Trying to keep your WiFi safe can feel confusing. There are a bunch of letters like WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 that show up when you look at your router settings. You might wonder what they all mean or ...

The WEP algorithm relies on a secret key that is shared between a mobile device and an access point. In practice, most 802.11b system administrators use a single key that is shared among all ...

Type the passphrase for the network into the "Password" field in the prompt that appears. Click "Connect" to connect your laptop to a router with WEP encryption.

Although 802.1x will help fix the static WEP key security issues, it is strictly an authentication standard and does not address the encryption weaknesses found in WEP. The Wi-Fi Alliance, working ...

Despite the risk, lots of people still use WEP, mainly out of ignorance or inertia. A few years ago you might be able to rationalize using WEP if you had any wireless devices that didn’t support the ...

For example, the new vulnerability of 128-bit WEP encryption — discovered by Adam Stubblefield, a graduate student at Rice, and Aviel Rubin, a researcher at AT&T Labs — came one week after ...

These days using WEP encryption is akin to keeping your house keys under the front door welcome mat and hoping nobody takes the time to notice that they’re there. Adapted from PracticallyNetworked.com ...

For those who still don't think it's a major problem to run WEP encryption on a wireless LAN, this is your final warning. Humphrey Cheung of Tomsnetworking has released a tutorial that can ...

Hi, this may seem like a dumb question, but i don't know the answer so I will ask. I set up 128 WEP encryption on a Linksys WRT54G, I got a desk top hard wired, and a desk top on a usb wireless ...

I recently bought a Proxim RangeLAN-DS 802.11b access point. It does not appear to support shared key authentication, although it does support 40-bit and 128-bit WEP for data encryption.

How To Disable WEP Encryption on a 2Wire Gateway Hub. The 2Wire Gateway Hub connects an office network to the Internet via an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) broadband connection.