How Stable is WEP?

PktLoss asks: "I recently joined the wireless home networking craze, and bought two products, a wireless router and a wireless PCMCIA card. When I just connect normally, I have no problems. The connection is rock solid, decent transfer rates. Im very happy with the purchase. However, for obvious reasons, I would like to enable WEP with 128bit encryption. However, once i do that, the connection goes flaky, dropping after a few moments, or minutes, even when mere feet from the router. Are there problems with stability and WEP? Do certain applications have issues with WEP (I've been disconnected when running nothing but Windows)? Is there anything i can do to resolve this?"

"Linksys blames this problem on:

Some applications are having problem with WEP. WEP or Wired Equivalent Privacy is performed jointly by Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, and David Wagner and not yet standardized and not having solution with its wireless connection problems...

Does this sound like a load of crock to anyone or is it just me?"