WEP or Wap

Hi

I recommend you use WPA2-PSK. You should have two options there - Personal and Enterprise. You should choose Personal. You will then need to enter your password of choice. Make sure it's long enough to be secure - at least 8 characters is good. It's actually not a bad idea to write it on a post-it and tape it to your router.

WEP is an old, insecure wireless encryption that is relatively easy to hack. WPA2 is much more modern and secure.

Your Macbook will automatically detect the type of encryption you've used on your router.

Matt

Yes, that sounds right as far as entering your password. The password can be a mix of letters and numbers. Your iMac will not need any changes since it is connected directly to the router, but your PC will need to have the password entered the next time it connects to your wireless signal.

No, once you change the router settings and apply a new password, you will need to log in to the wireless network afresh (if you already had an unprotected wireless network with the same name, for example) from each computer, but the Macs, at least (probably the PCs too) will automatically show you that it's a WPA2 Personal network. (Don't worry too much if you see "WPA" rather than "WPA2", though.)

Matt

It's not that they'll "automatically update", but they will recognise whether they're seeing a WEP or WPA-protected network. Once you change the router settings, go to each computer, go to their wireless setting page (on the Mac, use the Airport menu; on the PC, go to the wireless signal icon in the taskbar), connect to your new network, and enter the password you've chosen.

It really is pretty straightforward. Try it out, and if it doesn't work, come back and let us know what happened.

Matt