we just switched to skybroadband and have 2 laptops in our house. need to switch a packard bell from

we just switched to skybroadband and have 2 laptops in our house. need to switch a packard bell from wap to wep.

That's more of a comment than a question. I presume Sky have provided you with a new router and perhaps this comes with a preset (WEP)wireless password. You could almost certainly change the password if you want to and change from WEP to WPA at the same time. But if you managed to set up with WPA before then the procedure you use is exactly the same. Scan for available wireless networks, select the one that belongs to you, click connect, enter the password when prompted, hey presto!

by the way, the logon to access the Sky router is normally "admin" and "sky". They don't tell you that....
Note that on some you cannot change the WEP/WPA settings: they are hidden and can't be acessed unless you flash the router with a "normal" set of firmware. Similarly the user logon settings are inaccessible. If you try flahing the router there is a good chance of killing it: for most users you are stuck with the pre-set WEP key

PS - and that default WEP key is inherently insecure
Catch-22 - you can't change the WEP key becuase the router is locked, and you can't use a more secure third party router because Sky won't release details of the user logon and password. Details are available on the web of how to find these, but its not straightforward - and again requires flashing the router with "normal" unlocked firmware