Whats the deal?

I think i can honestly say the routers pineappleed - im contemplating going and getting a D-Link router. my ISP said they will not replace it because there is a work around (changing connection encryption to WPA) but i cbf.

Why are you using WEP?

A team of FBI agents demonstrated current WEP-cracking techniques and broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three minutes.

Source: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php...Itemid=100

That article is from 2005, so WEP could be cracked even faster on modern hardware. So someone can hack into your network and start doing p2p with your bandwidth, possibly even getting your parents in legal trouble with RIAA/MPAA or your country's equivalent. [Or if it's a skilled hacker, they could get into your network and do some man-in-the-middle SSL attack (e.g., via http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslsniff/) to get your parents' banking/credit card info.] You should be using WPA with AES or WPA2.

If the router still chokes up on WPA/WPA2, then you should buy a separate router and connect that to a LAN port on that device. If you do buy a separate router, I recommend one that can support a third-party firmware (e.g., DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWRT, etc.). Reason being is that I think third-party firmwares get better development (first-party firmware tends to no longer get updates after 1st yr.), have better features, are more robust, and are more stable.