Does old Windows XP Home edition allow WPA wireless network encryption or is it too old?

If I remember correctly, if you upgrade to SP2, you should be able to use WPA. But the original pre-service pack Windows XP doesn’t support WPA without a patch available from Microsoft. Good luck!

Ahhh, that’s kind of what I suspected. Thanks. I just need to get the thing to connect via Ethernet which is proving equally problematic! I’ll keep trying : )

Hmm, what’s the setup? If you have another PC and a USB stick, you might just be able to just install the small patch file from the USB stick and be up and running.

Great idea – thanks again!