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SMHarman · 10-08-2005, 09:45

Realistically for a home network you have the options of WPA-PSK or WEP. The others are corporate level and enable the encryption of the network to be rolled (the password does not stay the same), but require a Radius server to achieve this.

WPA is better than WEP, though not all devices can use WPA so take note of this as a buying decision when buying additional devices. WEP is also effectivly PSK, but that is the only way of doing it so it is not described as WEP-PSK

PSK basically means you have to go into each device in turn and tell it (pre-share) the password to log onto the network.

10-08-2005, 09:45	#8
SMHarman Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Services: Cablevision Posts: 8,305	Re: WRT54GS Router Encryption Realistically for a home network you have the options of WPA-PSK or WEP. The others are corporate level and enable the encryption of the network to be rolled (the password does not stay the same), but require a Radius server to achieve this. WPA is better than WEP, though not all devices can use WPA so take note of this as a buying decision when buying additional devices. WEP is also effectivly PSK, but that is the only way of doing it so it is not described as WEP-PSK PSK basically means you have to go into each device in turn and tell it (pre-share) the password to log onto the network.