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I found an AP that I know is running WPA but Netstumbler is reporting it as WEP. Is my network really only running WEP?

April 26, 2017AP netstumbler Network running wep wpa

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I found an AP that I know is running WPA but Netstumbler is reporting it as WEP. Is my network really only running WEP?

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Most likely, no. Netstumbler will report WPA/WEP networks all as WEP. The program makes no difference in reporting. In older versions of Netstumbler, WPA wouldn’t even show up as encrypted and my guess would be, in the later versions, there will be a difference in how Netstumbler reports the network encryption.