Access WEP password protected Airport Express WiFi w/T-Mobile B'Berry Curve

I have a new T-Mobile provided Blackberry Curve and the cellular signal is particularly weak in my home. T-Mobile tells me that the new Curve allows me to connect to my home WiFi network and make phone calls using WiFi (given my traditional cell signal is weak at home). Apparently, this is reasonably new functionality as I had not previously been aware of it. The problem I am having is that my WiFi network is protected by a WEP password that I set. I know the password and can view it on my Mac when I go into my Network settings and prompt it to "show password". The problem I'm having is that when I tell the Blackberry device to "search for networks" it quickly searches and easily finds my WiFi network; however, when it prompts me to then enter the WEP password, I do so and then the Blackberry gives me a prompt with something about how the password should be 8 or 24 hexadecimal characters (or something like that?) and then it will not connnect to the WiFi network. Almost as though it's not recognizing the password? MY QUESTION--Am I putting the wrong password into the Blackberry device once it searches and finds my WiFi network? Is there a different password required (perhaps something specific to my Airport Express router that I may have forgotten and need to locate via another means)? Is the password I set through my MAC OS to access my WiFi network using a laptop, etc. not the same one you use for a device like the Blackberry Curve to access that same WiFi network? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as my cellphone is currently essentially worthless inside my home!

You are probably using the correct password. If you are using a shorter password than what is allowed you can suffer the problems of incompatible implementations of WEP. If you are using WEP you should be using 128 bit WEP. That is stronger than 64 bit WEP but not very strong. The maximum length password for 128 bit WEP is 13 ASCII (normal human) characters (which is 26 hexadecimal characters). If your WEP password is not that long, you should change the WEP password at the AirPort Express (AX) so that it is that long.

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