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<blockquote data-quote="Sander Rooijens" data-source="post: 138593" data-attributes="member: 4896">Re: X-AirWEP encryption is easy to crack nowadays and Behringer made a very VERY poor choice incorporating access point functionality without WPA2 support.If this was a product introduced in 2005, okay maybe, but in 2015? No way.That being said, WEP security may not be very strong but if nothing better is available you definitely SHOULD use it. it is still a lot better than an open network.Lots of people/devices will try to connect to any unprotected network to see if they can get internet access. A few hundred phones in the audience can slow your connection to unusable levels without the owners of the phones even knowing it.If your network is using WEP encryption, weak as it may be, it requires a conscious choice and deliberate action by someone to try and crack your network.That in itself will stop the vast majority of attempted connections right there.If someone with the right knowledge and intent wants to get onto your network it&#039;ll be a lot easier for them with WEP than WPA(2), but then a DDOS is easy enough against either of them. You cannot stop people that are determined to attack your network but WEP will keep honest people honest and reduce the amount of connections to your network very considerably. if it&#039;s all you&#039;ve got, use it! Weak protection is still infinitely better than no protection at all.Behringer really should implement WPA2 and I cannot think of any acceptable excuse why they didn&#039;t in&nbsp; a product introduced in 2015.... but WEP still is way better than a completely open network.S.R.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sander Rooijens, post: 138593, member: 4896"] Re: X-Air WEP encryption is easy to crack nowadays and Behringer made a very VERY poor choice incorporating access point functionality without WPA2 support. If this was a product introduced in 2005, okay maybe, but in 2015? No way. That being said, WEP security may not be very strong but if nothing better is available you definitely SHOULD use it. it is still a lot better than an open network. Lots of people/devices will try to connect to any unprotected network to see if they can get internet access. A few hundred phones in the audience can slow your connection to unusable levels without the owners of the phones even knowing it. If your network is using WEP encryption, weak as it may be, it requires a conscious choice and deliberate action by someone to try and crack your network. That in itself will stop the vast majority of attempted connections right there. If someone with the right knowledge and intent wants to get onto your network it'll be a lot easier for them with WEP than WPA(2), but then a DDOS is easy enough against either of them. You cannot stop people that are determined to attack your network but WEP will keep honest people honest and reduce the amount of connections to your network very considerably. if it's all you've got, use it! Weak protection is still infinitely better than no protection at all. Behringer really should implement WPA2 and I cannot think of any acceptable excuse why they didn't in a product introduced in 2015.... but WEP still is way better than a completely open network. S.R. [/QUOTE]

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