one of the biggest problems that you have in a wired net work that wont (or cant ) offer there users wireless is that users have wireless in ther homes so they think that they know how to use it( one to run 'billy's' computer in his room , one box in the kittchen for mom, and one in dads office, opening the walls to put in cat5 is going to cost how much?!!!)

so users that now want wireless in the work place will go to one of those big elect. stores and pick up an ap and plug it in to there imo, boom instant wireless in the office and instant security breach. what if i was a bad guy and sat in your parking lot with a laptop running some server software and an ap pluged in and got your card to associate to my ap, bang i got you login, your whole company is owned.

wep?!wep?! hello 1-2 million pkts and use wep crack your owned, bang wep is flawed, big time. most people that have these $100 ap's dont turn it on anyway, all of the clients that we service that have had wireless only 2 (out of 30-40) have had any encryption at all.

first if you carry sensitive data dont use one of the ap's that cost $100 from a superstore spend the $ and get one that will run more secure incriptions like LEAP, PEAP, IPSec and others that are comming out with 802.11i (?)( I thiks its i) cisco offers these starting about $500 per ap for the new 1100 also they are now offering an upgrade for the old aironet ios to cisco ios that can do some coller things and is more user friendly i recommend these.