Iphone 3GS wifi WEP64-bit

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New Years Greetings, my fellow tech-heads ;)

I would appreciate some guidance on a wi-fi problem that has just "wasted" the last few hours at the in-laws residence...

They have a Tiscali (oh dear) broadband service, with the router forced to use WEP 64-bit wireless security, due to the age and lack of compatability of some wireless products in the home.

However, a new Iphone has been bought, but it we cannot get it to connect using the WEP 64-bit security :confused:

We tried lower and upper case for the original alpha-numeric key;
a fresh 10-character all numeric and all alphabetic key;
putting a "$" (dollar sign) in front of keys;
inserting a dash ("-") after every 2 characters;
inserting a space after every 2 charcters

During a very quick google search, there is a suggestion that these new Iphones do not like WEP, end of.

We did not find any setting on the Iphone to configure the wireless security type.

Is there perhaps a firmware update that fixes this?

Any other ideas?

I look forward to reading any thoughts, thanks in advance :)
 
Its an old Belkin wireless network card (sorry cannot recall model) in my donated old Barton 2800+ system, over 5 years old now, which cannot do WPA. I did suggest that the real answer might be to spend a few squids on a modern card for this old system, as WEP can apparently be cracked in a matter of seconds by those in the know...

One real oddity of the "wasted" time was that the Iphone owner got the phone working through WPA in the morning, but could not connect using the very same key in the afternoon (all done to try and work out if WEP was the Iphone issue)!:D
 
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Alas, it was the hex key (five groups of two alphanumeric characters seperated by dashes eg. 6D-5F-76-82-D2) that was put into the Iphone.
 
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