Wireless Password

I'm trying to give my wireless network a password so that my neighbors can't
use it. What I was trying required that I use a flash drive, but I don't see
any place for a flash drive on my router. Is there any way I can
password-protect my already existing network?

Hi
You don't need a Flash drive. Out of the hundreds of models that are sold,
very few has a Flash drive arrangement.
Read your Wireless Router (Access Point) manual it would explain how to
configure the security.
In general.
From the weakest to the strongest, Wireless security capacity is.
No Security
MAC
WEP
WPA-PSK
WPA-AES
WPA2
The documentation of your Wireless devices (Wireless Router, and Wireless
Computers Card) should state the type of security that is available with
your Wireless hardware.
All devices MUST be set to the same security level using the same pass
phrase.
Therefore the security must be set according what ever is the best possible
of one of the Wireless devices.
I.e. even if most of your system might be capable to be configured to the
max. with WPA2, but one device is only capable to be configured to max . of
WEP, to whole system must be configured to WEP.
If you need more good security and one device (like a Wireless card that can
do WEP only) is holding better security for the whole Network, replace the
device with a better one.
Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"bosco" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6349DA25-0027-4570-AE56-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm trying to give my wireless network a password so that my neighbors
> can't
> use it. What I was trying required that I use a flash drive, but I don't
> see
> any place for a flash drive on my router. Is there any way I can
> password-protect my already existing network?

"bosco" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6349DA25-0027-4570-AE56-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm trying to give my wireless network a password so that my neighbors
> can't
> use it. What I was trying required that I use a flash drive, but I don't
> see
> any place for a flash drive on my router. Is there any way I can
> password-protect my already existing network?

You can use the flash drive to save your wireless encryption settings for
your use later or if friends and family want access to your wireless
network. If your wireless access point/router or clients do not support WCN
you can easily copy-n-paste the network key by opening the flash drive and
navigating to the \Smrtntky\Wsetting.txt file and copying the key to the
wireless access point/router or client.

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