Wireless Encryption Help

I set up a 128 WEP encryption on my home wi-fi network using my work PC but my iBook G4 won't let me join. I know the 16 digit code and my password, but can't to a place to enter either. Any help?
Thanks,
TP

tproud78, Welcome to the discussion area!
It is unclear whether your work PC or iBook is having difficulty joining your wireless network.
If your equipment is compatible with WPA2 or WPA, you should change the wireless encryption to that and avoid the incompatibilities caused by WEP. WPA2 and WPA are also extremely strong compared to WEP.
If you must use 128 bit WEP, for better compatibility you should use a 13 ASCII character password or a 26 hexadecimal character password.

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