3.9 Wireless Security
Here you can configure the security of your wireless network. Selecting different method
will enable you to have different level of security. Please note that by using any encryption,
by which data packet is encrypted before transmission to prevent data packets from being
eavesdropped by unrelated people, there may be a significant degradation of the data
throughput on the wireless link.
WL-5460AP provides WEP, WPA-PSK (TKIP),
WPA2-PSK (AES) and WPA2-PSK (AES)
security policy.
WEP
WEP allows you to use data encryption to secure your data from being eavesdropped by
malicious people. It allows 2 types of key: 64 (WEP64) and 128 (WEP128). You can
configure up to 4 keys
using either ASCII or
Hexadecimal format.
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Key Settings:
The length
of a WEP64 key must be
equal to 5 bytes and a
WEP128 key is 13 bytes
Default Tx Key:
You have
to specify which of the four
keys will be active.
Once you enable the WEP
function, please make sure
that both the WL-5460AP
and the wireless client
stations use the same key.
Note
Some wireless client cards only allow Hexadecimal digits for WEP keys. Please
note that when configuring WEP keys, a WEP128 ASCII key looks like “
This is a
key
”(13 characters), while a WEP128 Hex key looks like
“
546869732069732061206b6579
”(26 HEX) (hexadecimal notation are 0-9 and
A-F).
