... of the system's developers; they wanted to make wireless networks as secure as wired networks. In order for WEP to work, you must activate WEP on all the Wi-Fi devices in your network via the client software or configuration program that came with the hardware. And every device on your network must use the same WEP key to gain access ... keys are categorized by the number of bits (1s or 0s) used to create the key. Most Wi-Fi equipment these days uses 128-bit WEP keys, but some early gear (like the first generation of the Apple AirPort equipment) supported only a 64-bit WEP key. A few ac...

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