Connection Timeout? WEP password problem.

My father just recently made a new wireless network using our linksys router, and since he doesn't like the idea of people leeching our internet access, he put password protection on it. It worked very well until just recently, when I got back from vacation. I tried connecting to our network and after about two seconds I got "Connection Timeout". I was able to "fix" the problem for about two days by unplugging the router and then replugging it, but that just removed the password protection and now it's back today. Reading other posts, this is apparently a Leopard issue with it's WEP compatibility, and apparently WEP is bad to use? I wouldn't mind switching to something else but I have no idea how, and the lack of compatibility doesn't explain why the network worked perfectly fine for the first couple weeks I had my mac.

Tom in London wrote:
QUOTE "if you have a home or small business network. WEP does a good job of keeping most people out, at least those that are honest. Beware, though, there are true hackers around who can exploit the weaknesses of WEP and access WEP-enabled networks, especially those with high utilization."
See the full article at http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1368661
That article was written in 2002. Today, WEP is considered so weak as to be almost useless, since it can be broken into easily in a matter of minutes (or is it seconds now?) by anyone with a program designed to do so. See the many more current articles on the subject, like ZDNet's WEP - Gone in Sixty seconds! Or, for that matter, an article from the same site as your link but more recent, WEP: Cracked in 60 Seconds: "Their recommendation is pretty obvious: WEP should not be used"

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