What is the wep - Computers & Internet

Wired Equivalent Privacy. It is an older wireless protection standard that has been replaced with WPA and WPA2.

(Wired Equivalent Privacy) An IEEE standard security protocol for wireless 802.11 networks. Introduced in 1997, WEP was found to be very inadequate and was superseded by WPA, WPA2 and 802.11i. Its authentication method was extremely weak and even helped an attacker decipher the secret encryption key. As a result, WEP authentication was dropped from the Wi-Fi specification.

I assume your referring to the wep key to connect to wireless internet.Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a deprecated security algorithm for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks If you don't remember the wep key you will have to access your wireless router and either change it or look it up on the router itself. The steps to access your router vary between routers.
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A WEP key is a security code used on some Wi-Fi networks. WEP keys allow a group of devices on a local network (such as a home network) to exchange encoded messages with each other while hiding the contents of the messages from easy viewing by outsiders.

A WEP key is a sequence of hexadecimal digits. These digits include the numbers 0-9 and the letters A-F. Some examples of WEP keys are:

* 1A648C9FE2
* 99D767BAC38EA23B0C0176D15