Limited WN2500RP Success - Help?

After several days with no suggestions, I kept digging on the net. I finally found a reference to WEP questions that someone else had answered on another forum. Maybe my experience (and success) will help someone else. Basically, it comes down to this: The Passphrase and the Key must be identical. And since Netgear wants them in hex format, you need to convert your primary wireless network's passphrase (encryption key) from Ascii to hex. I have a 13-character passphrase, so I used an online 26 hex converter and then pasted the converted Ascii 26-character string to both the Passphrase box AND to the key 1 box. I also had to change from the default 64 bit to 128 bit. Ultimately this worked and I'm running with an extended WEP network. And, the extended network actually displays one more bar that the primary network.