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    <desc>WEP and WPA are ways of encrypting data on wireless networks.</desc>

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  <title>What do WEP and WPA mean?</title>

  
WEP and WPA (along with WPA2) are names for different encryption tools

  used to secure your wireless connection. Encryption scrambles the network

  connection so that no one can “listen in” to it and look at which web pages

  you are viewing, for example. WEP stands for Wired Equivalent

  Privacy, and WPA stands for Wireless Protected Access. WPA2 is

  the second version of the WPA standard.

  
Using some encryption is always better than using none, but WEP

  is the least secure of these standards, and you should not use it if you can

  avoid it. WPA2 is the most secure of the three. If your wireless card and

  router support WPA2, that is what you should use when setting up your

  wireless network.

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