On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:40:37 +0100, Greg Hennessy
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:21:22 +0100, Simon Pleasants
wrote:

So am I now way more secure than before?

Yes, assuming you entered a maximum length key.

I was just experimenting at that stage so no. I have subsequently
used a longer a more complicated key.

I even tried being smart. I set the router to use WPA-802.1x instead.
Of course now I couldn't even log in to my own network (what's a
radius server, btw)

If you need to ask that question dot 1x is not for you.

I didn't think it was, I was just trying to work out why all my
scanning equipment showed my network security as being WEP when it is
actually WPA. No-one has commented on this particular question.

WPA-PSK is an absolute doddle. Using it appears to have made no
difference whatsoever in terms of throughput across the network, I
just can't figured why all the network scanning software calls it WEP.