Automatic setup security enough or switch to WEP?

Been a while since I've had a wireless and I'm wondering if I should set up a WEP or leave the WPA2 Personal key in place? Also any other added security measures I should do to protect my router? (Don't need the how-to's just the you-should's) I remember on my D-Link I checked off an option to refuse pings from outside the system (I think, it was a long time ago). It was to protect against outside computers pinging a router repeatedly until the router simply resets all the basic settings, including admin passwords, is this something I need to do on my Linksys WRT54G2?
Message Edited by Dorainet on 05-29-2009 07:01 AM

Hello Dorainet, WPA2 Personal is much more secure than WEP. You can leave it to that security mode. But the downside of this if you have old wireless device that doesn't support WPA2 Personal might encounter problem connecting to your network. In that case then just use WEP and use 128bit for your encryption. To secure the settings of your router, just create a router password and not use the default which is admin. You can also enable the Block Anonymous Internet Requests inside the Security tab. By enabling the Block WAN Request feature, you can prevent your network from being "pinged," or detected, by other Internet users. The Block WAN Request feature also reinforces your network security by hiding your network ports. Both functions of the Block WAN Request feature make it more difficult for outside users to work their way into your network. This feature is enabled by default. That's about it for the securities in your router.
Beside setting up securities in your router, you can also limit the Maximum Number of DHCP Users to the numbers of your PC's only. By default your router's Maximum Number of DHCP Users is set to 50.
Hope that helps.
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