Can Sky Angel start using WPA by upgrading the firmware?

[jlahmeyer]

I was just wondering since WEP is old and really useless for security reasons.

[Pepper]

What are you talking about?

[thanej]

I was curious if the SA iptv box could use WPA or WPA2 encryption. It seems like many wireless devices still use WEP. For that reason, if I do decide to subscribe to the iptv service, I was planning on running an ethernet cable to the box. I do not trust WEP security since it is hackable.

As far as I know, there should not be any reason why the firmware in the box could not be upgraded to at least WPA with TKIP encryption. The newer WPA2 with AES encryption seems to be more hardware dependent due to the additional processing required for the higher encryption. If the hardware is there then they could update the firmware to handle WPA2 as well.

Note: Another option is a device called a wireless bridge (there is another name for this that escapes me). If you purchase a wireless bridge from the same manufacturer (its possible to have compatibility issues otherwise) as your wireless router or access point then you should be able to use the WPA or WPA2 encryption. The wireless bridge presents a wired ethernet port to your iptv box by handling the connection to your wireless router.

[jlahmeyer]

Well I hope they change it to WPA or better yet WPA2.

[Rick68]

Could you use MAC address filtering? Or is that not very secure either?

[Pepper]

I thought their box used ethernet. Is it wireless?

[jlahmeyer]

You could have it either wireless or ethernet. The wireless part is 802.11g WIFI.