Wireless Network Key

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Hi,

I'm trying to install a wireless ad-hoc network at the moment between 2 XP computers and 1 98 computer. I got it working fine between the 2 XP computers without WEP enabled, but as soon as I added in WEP it all went wrong.
My problem was that when I turned the WEP on, the computer obviously needed me to enter a Network Key. The key, according to XP, should have either been 5 or 13 ASCII characters. The problem was that no matter what i entered in for the key, when I returned to the settings page, Windows had reset the key to 8 characters. The connection still worked, but now I was unsure as to whether the WEP was working or not.

As well as this, the 8 characters that the computer was resetting the key to were shown as black circles, and so when my Win 98 machine asked me for the key I knew it had 8 letters, but didn't know what they were!

If anyone can help me out on this I'd be very very very appreciative!

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[degsy]

I'm not sure about the WEP, but as far as the key then it is normal for Windows to use circles or asterisks to hide a password.
Also, it is standard for it to default to 8 characters to hide the pass, even if the key is only 5 characters.

This is so that when you look at it you cannot tell how long the password is.

It could be 5 characters or 13, but it will show 8.