Wifi encryption?

Question

I have a wirelss BT home hub. I changed it so it has WPA-PSK encryption. Which of these 3 is the best?
WPA
WPA2
or
WPA+WPA2

Answer 1

hi iisjman07,
If you're using WPA-PSK for your wireless network security, that's the right step to do; it's better than WEP.
But the best of wireless encryption right now is WPA2-AES, the AES stands for the kind of encryption it's using (usually there's another option of encryption type for WPA2: TKIP).
But many wireless researchers have tested that this WPA2-TKIP is slower than WPA-AES encryption type, it's been proven and well tested on many devices.

If your whole wireless devices (Access Point/AP & Wireless Router/WR) and adapters (PCI adapter, PCMCIA adapter & USB) support WPA2, then you should only use it instead of falling back to WPA+WPA2.
Because the wireless devices (the AP and WR) have to do double decoding of those two kinds of encryption at the same time (if there are two wireless adapters using both of WPA & WPA2), so your wireless network will become much slower than it should be.

If you're using WinXP Pro SP2, then you must download manually the additional update for WPA2. 'Cause WinXP Pro SP2 doesn't natively support WPA2, but Microsoft has issued update for it. You can read the below URL link for further reference.

Hope this will informations help, happy wireless networking!

Answer 2

The strongest encryption is WPA2; select a 12 character preshare key that is a mix of numbers and letters with some letters upper case and some lower case.

Answer 3

WEP is broken. it relatively is completely defeated in decrease than a minute. WPA is as guard as your passphrase. in case you utilize a very random passphrase, you shall be risk-free. in case you utilize a much less guard passphrase containing dictionary words, even WPA is susceptible.