WEP/WPA nonsense.

I realised that my internet security is horrible as my wireless network is unsecured.

My job: Secure it NOW you idiot...

... as quoted by my dad.

It turned out harder than I thought it would be. 15 minutes turned to 2 hours as I racked my brains for all possible options and googled my way through 100's of pages.

In the end, I found a page on howtodothings.com that told me how to secure my network, with instructions specified for my modem.

It still wasn't enough. The instructions were quite a bit off from what I was seeing, and the picture of the modem was different. I'm assuming they are talking about the American version of my modem.

So I had to decipher the instructions and enter the settings so that my network would work.

And after all USB transfers to copy my settings to the laptop, it still DID NOT WORK.

By now, I was starting to question my understanding of my skill with computers. I thought for about another 30 minutes while repeating the H2DT instructions about 6 times.

Then it came to me. My laptop was incapable of connecting to WPA encrypted networks, which was absurd considering it was released after WPA encryption was standard through the industry.

So I changed the settings and network keys on my laptop, router and desktop to that of WEP encryption and it WORKED. Finally.

The moral of this? Persistence pays off.