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icarus · 10-10-2006, 08:15 PM

Question:

I have moved into a new place and am trying to get onto the wireless network here. My housemate is the only one using it and had it set up by a family member in IT who seemingly made it more complicated (secure?) than it needed to be.

Initially it wouldn't even ask me for a password when I tried to log on, but I seem to have fixed that. The problem I have is when I try to enter the password I get an error message saying something like "40-bit or 128-bit encryption requires key to be 5 or 13 ASCII characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters long".

I don't think I have ever used a network key that was 5 or 13 characters long and it has always worked just fine. And the password my housemate is using is 8 characters long (on her computer it is shown as "oooooooo"--you know, the little black dots so that no one can read your password? there are eight of them).

So why is it telling me to use 5 or 13 characters for the WEP key when it is actually 8?

10-10-2006, 08:15 PM	#521
icarus Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Singapore Exp:	Question: I have moved into a new place and am trying to get onto the wireless network here. My housemate is the only one using it and had it set up by a family member in IT who seemingly made it more complicated (secure?) than it needed to be. Initially it wouldn't even ask me for a password when I tried to log on, but I seem to have fixed that. The problem I have is when I try to enter the password I get an error message saying something like "40-bit or 128-bit encryption requires key to be 5 or 13 ASCII characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters long". I don't think I have ever used a network key that was 5 or 13 characters long and it has always worked just fine. And the password my housemate is using is 8 characters long (on her computer it is shown as "oooooooo"--you know, the little black dots so that no one can read your password? there are eight of them). So why is it telling me to use 5 or 13 characters for the WEP key when it is actually 8? __________________ Shot down in Flames!