Help and questions with a belkin router

so I am new to wireless networking. I bought a Belkin MIMO router, the connection is great. Took phone support to help with set up because not as straight forward as I thought it would be. My only concern is: When I tried to set up WEP encryption my mac wouldn't recognize the password...
.in the end the tech guy said not to use a password.
Question 1: Anybody have problems with setting up a password with a belkin router?
Question 2: does this mean anyone who can see my network can ride along for free?
Question3: does this mean people can see what sites I am using (like bank sites)
The tech support said there was built in firewall and was enough protection. Is there something I should be doing on my mac as well?
I don't mind so much others 'using' my connection. I just want it secure. I am soon ridding of wired PC so i will do banking online and want protection.....
(BTW I am also considering getting a belkin with USB port for my printer to print wireless with my mac laptop)
TIA

If you do not setup a password, then your network is open for everyone to access - which is a bad thing in case you are wondering. Try using your password, but put a "$" in front of it. Some users have reported problems setting up WEP and sometimes adding that "$" works for some reason.
As far as using that Canon printer wirelessly, if you have it connected to another computer, then you can print to it using printer sharing with no problems at all. If you want to have it free standing with no Mac/PC connected to it, then you will have to either get a wireless print server for it, go with Bluetooth, or use Apple's Airport which has a built-in print server.
Since you already have the router, then using another PC as the print server or getting a print server is probably the way to go.

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    If one the Macs you're using is only running OS9.x, you'll also want to check the box "Allow events from Mac OS9" and click on "Set Password" to set a password. This password will be needed by "Chooser" on the OS9 machine to gain access to the OSX machine.
    Then to connect from the OSX machine to the OS9 machine (for example), press Command-K (Connect-to-Server) to bring up a list of machines. Hopefully, the machine to want to connect to is listed. Select the desired machine, and click "Connect" and provide a user name and password, when prompted. Then select the "share", ie. user account on the remote hard drive to mount locally. A globe icon with the label of the "share" you mounted will appear on the local desktop. Then, away you go! To disconnect, just drag the globe icon to the trash.
    Ed

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