Wireless encryption

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I just recently got a Lucent WaveLAN Silver card from a former Lucent employee. I plan on using it in a PowerBook. These things were made when wireless network was pretty new, and only supports 64-bit WEP encryption. My main router uses WPA2 encryption, on G-only networks. I live in a medium-density area in terms of population, and you can get up to 2 neighboring wireless networks in range. I'm just wondering, is it worth using the 64 bit WEP encryption (would require me to hookup my old router too), or would it be fine to use a non-encrypted wireless network?

Any advice is appreciated?

Just go ahead and use it, unless it's a hassle to set up. What kind of encryption are you using now with your wireless?

Are you concerned about someone cracking the encryption? Is this for something for at home or when you're out and about? Has anyone cracked your wireless before?

Well, if you want to be more secure you could add mac address filtering, disable the DHCP, use a static IP, rename the default SSID and hide it, change your lan ip, add a firewall to your computer, turn off wireless administration and put a password for the wired administration.

Check the log of your router frequently too.

I just recently got a Lucent WaveLAN Silver card from a former Lucent employee. I plan on using it in a PowerBook. These things were made when wireless network was pretty new, and only supports 64-bit WEP encryption. My main router uses WPA2 encryption, on G-only networks. I live in a medium-density area in terms of population, and you can get up to 2 neighboring wireless networks in range. I'm just wondering, is it worth using the 64 bit WEP encryption (would require me to hookup my old router too), or would it be fine to use a non-encrypted wireless network?

Any advice is appreciated?

64-bit WEP is one of the easiest things to hack, most people consider it the same as not protection, well any WEP is like that, but still. I would recommend just picking up a wireless G card/usb stick whenyou see one on sale, they aren't that expensive any more, and WPA/WPA2 is much much harder to crack than WEP, and if there are WEP networks in the area, or unsecured networks, the people you really have to worry about won't bother with yours, they will just go for the easier target, as WPA is very painful to try to crack. As for hiding the SSID, it is still possible for someone to pick up your network and identify it if they have hacking software, and those are the people you really need to worry about.

G is impossible. Neither hardware or software will support it.