What kind of password (WEP, WAP, WAP2) to choose for Airport Base Station?

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What kind of password (WEP, WAP, WAP2) to choose for Airport Base Station?

Hi,
I just got an Apple TV. I am using an Airport Base Station to connect to the Internet wireless with my iMac. So far without any password-protection (very neglectant, I know).
i want to password protect but I am getting confused on how to do this.
Can someone please explain in basic language, as I am not a computer-geek, how I should do this and what kind of password I should use. WEP, WAP, WAP2 - that's way to confusing for me. What should I use so that the ATV is functioning properly?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.6), at work PC

Posted on Jan 17, 2008 10:34 AM

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Answer 1

Chenks

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Jan 17, 2008 10:36 AM in response to Dimitrios

you should probably ask this in the airport base station forum, rather than the tv forum.

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Dimitrios Author

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Jan 17, 2008 10:38 AM in response to Chenks

I know. But I heard it's important for the ATV to function correctly.

Many users in the Airport-Forum don't have an ATV, but all ATV-users have a wireless network.

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Jan 17, 2008 10:41 AM in response to Dimitrios

The tv uses all these types of security, WEP is the weakest and WPA2 is the strongest security. Each allows you to enter varying lengths of passwords, in theory the longer the password the more secure but I wouldn't always say that was true (i.e. '1W3e7' is likely to be more secure than 'password1').

I use WPA2 with an eight character password.

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Dimitrios Author

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Jan 19, 2008 9:43 PM in response to Winston Churchill

thanks a lot

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