MN700 - Change from WEP to WPA

Hi I have a small home network my laptop, a desktop and a wireless printer.
The laptop and the printer have a built in WiFi adapter, the desktop uses a
MN710 USB Adapter.
I use the MN700 and a cable modem.
Everything is currently working well but when I set up everything I selected
WEP.
I would like to use WPA encryption (all items on the NW suppoert it) but I
would like to do this in the most painless manner possible.
Can I just open the Management Tool of the MN700 and change to WPA without
loosing my other settings like port forwarding, MAC Filtering etc.? I use a
static IP Address for the desktop and my laptop.
Is it worth the trouble to change to WPA?
Thanks for your response.

You can activate WPA so long as all your other devices support it. You
won't lose your other settings like port forwarding, mac filtering etc.

Note that your wireless performance will be slower due to the added
processing demands added to the MN700 for WPA encryption (in fact, it is so
much that the MN700 isn't certified by wi-fi.org for WPA because it doesn't
meet minimum performance criteria).

--
Gary Tsang
http://www.gtsang.com

Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


"Alexander" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:340FE69C-C378-4293-A23B-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi I have a small home network my laptop, a desktop and a wireless
> printer.
> The laptop and the printer have a built in WiFi adapter, the desktop uses
> a
> MN710 USB Adapter.
> I use the MN700 and a cable modem.
> Everything is currently working well but when I set up everything I
> selected
> WEP.
> I would like to use WPA encryption (all items on the NW suppoert it) but I
> would like to do this in the most painless manner possible.
> Can I just open the Management Tool of the MN700 and change to WPA without
> loosing my other settings like port forwarding, MAC Filtering etc.? I use
> a
> static IP Address for the desktop and my laptop.
> Is it worth the trouble to change to WPA?
> Thanks for your response.

Just don't use Data Encryption. You don't have to , noone can get into your
computer unless you allow someone to do so. Disable WEP and leave Network
Authentication open. It's easy in that way.
--
CUNY


"Alexander" wrote:

> Hi I have a small home network my laptop, a desktop and a wireless printer.
> The laptop and the printer have a built in WiFi adapter, the desktop uses a
> MN710 USB Adapter.
> I use the MN700 and a cable modem.
> Everything is currently working well but when I set up everything I selected
> WEP.
> I would like to use WPA encryption (all items on the NW suppoert it) but I
> would like to do this in the most painless manner possible.
> Can I just open the Management Tool of the MN700 and change to WPA without
> loosing my other settings like port forwarding, MAC Filtering etc.? I use a
> static IP Address for the desktop and my laptop.
> Is it worth the trouble to change to WPA?
> Thanks for your response.

Running a wireless network with no encryption security is the most
unsafe thing you can do.

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:39:02 -0700, cpublaster
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Just don't use Data Encryption. You don't have to , noone can get into your
>computer unless you allow someone to do so. Disable WEP and leave Network
>Authentication open. It's easy in that way.
--

Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
Expert Zone & Vista Community Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/