How to do wireless networking with encryption

Question

here's what to do.... I turned on SSID broadcasting and set encryption to 64 bit using key four on my router. This might not be critical BUT I did it to make life easier and eliminate potential issues. I then found my working pc and entered the passphrase. This converted it into Hex for me in all four of the keys. I turned off the Dell software for the wireless and used the windows stuff instead. I set up a new profile as per usual. I copied the key I had set the router to use (in this case 4) into my key four in Hex, the format of this is just the hex numbers, no : or spacing etc. Voila.

NemesisDB · Answer

yup ...    though apparently the passphrase generator isn't really that random -- it's better just to randomly pick hex characters yourself

phoenix00 · Answer

haha no 'randomly-generated passphrases' aren't completely random, but random enough to foil most methinks.

better yet: see if you can update your router firmware & card drivers and use WPA. That uses 128-bit WEP and rolls new keys at specified intervals automagically.

Failing that tho, definitely go to 128-bit WEP. 64-bit is trivial to crack these days.

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