WEP is secure in the sense that it will stop your neighbours accidentally straying onto your connection but WEP is nothing to a determined hacker and will not stop them for long. WEP can be broken relatively easily inside a few minutes. WPA encryption should be used wherever possible. It should be no more difficult to set up WPA than WEP so there's nothing to loose. The degree to which your system is really secure also depends on the length of your key. WPA keys at 20 characters are reasonably safe and those of 24 characters and greater are considered sufficiently difficut to deterr all but a malevolent state sponsored attack on your connection assuming at some point the power of quantum computing is made available to them. Regards. Tristram Llewellyn tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Technical Support Sight and Sound Technology -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Scholes Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:08 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: wireless security The BT hubs only use WEP, its secure, but not as secure as WPA. Just make sure that when using WEP that you use shared encryption. On Monday, April 14, 2008 10:52 PM, Saq wrote: || Hi. If your hub is wireless, it should have a wireless key on the || back. Generally the BT Home Hubs are secure by default. || Original message: ||| Hi, || ||| the laptop now seems to connect wirelessly however, i was wondering ||| how to set up ||| the security incription so that the network would not be accessible ||| to outside ||| computers. so could some one please give me step by step ||| instructions on how to do ||| this. i've got the bt home hub. || ||| thanks, Husna || || || ||| ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ||| ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ||| ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ||| ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ||| ** and in the Subject line type ||| ** unsubscribe ||| ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ||| ** immediately-following link:- ||| ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ||| ** or send a message, to ||| ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq || || -- || Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit || www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. || ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- || ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] || ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: || ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || ** and in the Subject line type || ** unsubscribe || ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the || ** immediately-following link:- || ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] || ** or send a message, to || ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq James Scholes E-Mail:james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN:jamesscholes@xxxxxxx Skype:james.scholes AOL Instant Messenger:JamesScholes000 Website:http://www.jamesscholes.com Blog:http://www.jamesscholes.com/blog Twitter:http://www.jamesscholes.com/twitter ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq