HOw do I make my Airport Apple wireless station is protected by a password pls?, HOw do I make my Airport Apple wireless station is protected by a password pls?

How do I make my Apple Airport Base Station wireless connection secure please?

Yes. You should enable it. Otherwise anyone in your proximity can access your wireless LAN, your computers and your internet connection.
You should use WPA2 Personal with AES and a strong longer passphrase to get the highest security. The passphrase can be up to 63 characters long. But it kind of depends on what your wireless clients can do which you must connect. Depending on how old the computers/wireless cards are some can only do WPA, some only WEP. You should not use WEP unless absolutely necessary. WEP can be cracked within minutes. WPA and WPA2 are considered secure at this time.
Thus, kind of the preference should be from highest security down. (choices may be slightly different for your router).
WPA2 Personal AES
WPA2 Personal AES+TKIP
WPA Personal AES
WPA Personal TKIP
WEP 128bit
WEP 64bit
However, don't worry to much about the security of WPA. The differences between WPA and WPA2 are more theoretical. Just don't use WEP. Using AES+TKIP should allow WPA and WPA2 clients to connect. Some WPA clients have still difficulties with that and you may have to revert to pure WPA.
Windows XP requires an update for WPA2. Available for download from microsoft.
Message Edited by gv on 10-15-2007 02:27 PM

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