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What worked for me was to use Win XP to automatically generate an encryption key and password that I then pasted into my Lynksys WRT54G router when prompted. That made my wi-fi access point secure with WPA2 encryption.

Until you do what precedes, I suggest that you at least disable public broadcasting by your router as follows: use your browser to access your router at 192.168.1.1 (the Linksys default address) and password "admin" (also their default password); then on the menu click on the Wireless tab; then put a checkmark next to "Disable public broadacasting."

What did absolutely NOT WORK were any of Linksys' "Secure Easy Setup" or their printed instructions or their totally useless "remote setup session" for which they charged me $9.99 and never even called me back as promised after a first "technician" screwed up my initial setup that was fine except that it had no encryption.

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