WPA encryption

I am thinking of getting a portable internet radio to use with my wireless
broadband but the bumph on the products website say I may need to know the
WPA encryption code, what is this and where would I find it?,I've got a 3com
router, I've looked on there website and found nothing about htis, any help
would be greatly appreciated!

Confuseduser wrote:
> I am thinking of getting a portable internet radio to use with my wireless
> broadband but the bumph on the products website say I may need to know the
> WPA encryption code, what is this and where would I find it?,I've got a 3com
> router, I've looked on there website and found nothing about htis, any help
> would be greatly appreciated!

Wireless networks -- which communicate by radio waves -- are vulnerable
to interception by anyone with a compatible receiver/transmitter. To
deal with this issue, Wireless networks encrypt the transmissions so
that unauthorized people can't eavesdrop on your network or, worse,
directly manipulate files on your computer.

WPA is one standard of such encryption (not the latest and greatest,
which is WPA2, but pretty good).

When you set up a wireless network, one of the things you do (or at
least *should* do) is enable encryption in your router and create an
encryption key. You then have to set up each of the computers that
connect to your network to know the key you created.

The wireless radio you looked at apparently has this capability as well.
That's a good thing.

See your router's User Guide for more information about how to set up
encryption on your network.

--
Lem MS MVP -- Networking

To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

Hi

Adding a little more to the good advice that you already got from Lem.

From the weakest to the strongest, Wireless security strength is.

No Security

MAC

WEP

WPA-PSK

WPA-AES

WPA2

The documentation the Internet Radio would state what type of Security is
available for configuration.

If it just state WPA log to the Router and configure WPA-PSK.

All devices MUST be set to the same security level using the same pass
phrase.

After you set the Router, you have the set in the same manner the Internet
Radio, and any Wireless Computer (using the same WPA passphrase).

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 can be configured to the
with WPA2, but one device is only capable to be configured to a 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).



"Confuseduser" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am thinking of getting a portable internet radio to use with my wireless
> broadband but the bumph on the products website say I may need to know the
> WPA encryption code, what is this and where would I find it?,I've got a
> 3com
> router, I've looked on there website and found nothing about htis, any
> help
> would be greatly appreciated!