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Legalegl
December 8th, 2005, 09:53 PM
I have a Belkin wireless router f5d7230-4 connected to a linksys rt31p2 wired router with phone lines. I have the Belkin set up as pass through to two computers noted below. Can I still use wireless security on the network cards and be secure ??? Running win xp sp1 on one computer and win98se on the other. Thanks

confus-ed
December 9th, 2005, 07:32 AM
I'd have thought so yes .. all the wireless encryption stuff is doing is securing the signal that 'goes to air', once its back inside a wire, then its a different set of security stuff you need to be looking at if you have concerns about that.

EDit: Oh hang on, maybe you are on about wep vs wpa ? 98 doesn't come with wpa (the more secure of the two), you can add it, but its not so simple & I may regret telling you that, if you ask me how !

Legalegl
December 12th, 2005, 07:22 PM
Sorry being so late getting back with you. Yes I am only concerned security in the air. I think securitywould be transmitted with everything else even if it is not on the wap.