Gmail on wireless network wep

Cannot Send or Receive Gmail on a wireless network which has WEP 64 encryption.  Works fine on WPA2 encpted Wireless Network.

When I configure a Wep key to my wireless internet
sharing network, my windows installed notebook can't
connect to my iMac. But when I set up it free the
notebook connects easily.
There does seem to be a known issue with a WEP encrypted software base station and Windows clients.
As far as I am aware there is no way to get a Windows client to connect to a WEP encrypted software base station (sharing internet via Airport on a Mac).
I tried both with ASCII and
HEX keys and generated them from:
You could try a ASCII key of
1234567123456
which will be a HEX key of
31323334353637313233343536
However if this doesn't work then nothing will.
I don't know what to do and I don't want to set a
wireless network free for security problems. Does
anyone know a solution?
Yes, get a wireless router and use that, it really is the only suitable solution.
iFelix

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