WIFI secured by WEP?
 

I set up a wifi network at home and phone has always been able to connect to but the wifi has always been open not protected with any password or any other type so today i decided to atleast secure it with WEP 128bit encryption but now when i make my phone scan for wifi networks available it brings up my network but it wont connect it
First it scans then it says obtaining IP address then after a while it says disabled protected by web. Since my network was already in the phones memory as available i erased it and had it rescan it brought it up hit connect add it the password but it only goes as far as Obtaining IP address

Using ACS Syndicate ROM 1.1.0

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Did you try rebooting the modem and router.?

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NO i didnt , since i didnt i had too since my pc internet connection kept active. Ill try that and see what happens

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have you tried setting a static ip?

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No because I heard having static ip was less secured. Dont know if thats true but thats the reason

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having a dynamic or static IP is irrelevant to overall security...I mean lets look at it this way..if its gotten to a point where they gotten on your network...it takes less then 1min to port scan all the ips in the block...

IF you want to go that deep WEP is insecure all together...

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omg no wonder he left. lol

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Darren who left?

Gten if WEP is insecure then what should I be using then to better secure my net.?

Also my bad on the noobnes but what does it mean when you say .. it takes less than 1 min to port scan all the ips in the block

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i was just joking that now that you found out your not secure your wiping files. think gten is saying if they got your ip already they will find all of them in a minute so static really isn't secure either. i use "real hide" and never had a issue.

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WPA2 encryption is the most secure one atm...

as for prot scanning..ok one they breached the network in w\e way..dhcp assigns an ip address..usually 198.162.x.x..all the usually have to do is send a packet to all the possible ips in that range..whichever one gets hit by the packet they know a host is there an they can exploit it...