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[JD]

Originally Posted by sswilson

If it ends up being something illegal, you'll be the one who gets the visit in the middle of the night from the men in black, and it's your PC they'll confiscate looking for evidence. Bad enough if it's something copyright related, really bad if it's something like kiddy porn and/or terrorist related.

Never heard of that happening in Canada though ;)

And well if you have a pedophile or terrorist living beside you, there's many other things you should be concerned about

(BTW, insane thread revival! Almost a year ago since the OP)

[gingerbee]

there was a guy that they caught driving around Toronto with his wireless laptop downloading kiddie porn on others networks/ip address's so it does happen. just put a password and be done with it

[IRS]

Ok Im back with one more laptop/wireless internet question.

Ok, so we have our own wireless network, and we use three laptops in our house. About a week ago we decided that we needed to put a password on it (people stealing our connection) so we did and the two other laptops work fine, but this one just wont connect (I plugged in another ethernet cable to the router for now). The password works fine for the other two computers, but not for this one. Whenever I try the password, it gives me the following message:

"The network password needs to be 40bits or 140bits depending on your network configuration. This can be entered as 5 to 13 ascii characters or 10 to 26 hexadecimal characters".

So I figured (with some help) that this has to do with the password encryption, and after looking at the advanced setting of all three laptops, the ones that work both support WPA/WPA2 encryption, but this one does not (for whatever reason, only uses WEP).

Now my question is, what should I do? Is it the fault of the laptop, or am I completely off? Do I need to go back to the wireless network and change the encryption to WEP just so this laptop will be able to connect (even though WEP (as I have heard) is not as strong as WPA/WPA2?)

A lot of writing, but any help will be appreciated.

[Desiato]

WEP has critical flaws that make it trivial to defeat. Its use should be avoided.

WPA requires device, driver and OS support. If you're using Windows XP SP2+ with the latest drivers for your wireless adapter and still lack WPA support, you should obtain a wireless adapter that supports WPA2.

[IRS]

By wireless adaptor, you mean.....? Is that something that can be installed into a laptop, something that can be downloaded? Clarification will be much appreciated.

[Desiato]

Originally Posted by IRS

By wireless adaptor, you mean.....? Is that something that can be installed into a laptop, something that can be downloaded? Clarification will be much appreciated.

I mean a wireless network adapter -- hardware. There are cheap USB adapters available such as: Belkin Wireless N (802.11B/G/N) 150Mbps USB2.0 Adapter for Desktops/Laptops Model F6D4050 - Networking & Modems - Computer Hardware (which I have no personal experience with.)

[MacJunky]

The wireless hardware, generally in the form of a card of some sort. What one do you have in that machine right now? (look in device manager and get the name it lists)

[IRS]

Not sure, is it under Network Adaptors? If so, it says two things: Cisco systems PCI Wireless LAN adaptor and Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Mobile Connection. Compared to the laptop I am currently using, which says: Intel(R) Pro/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection.