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2-7-3-1 Disable wireless security
When you select this mode, data encryption is disabled, and every wireless
device in proximity will be able to connect your wireless router if no other
security measure is enabled (like MAC address access control - see section
2-7-4, or disable ESSID broadcast).
Only use this option when you really want to allow everyone to use
your wireless router, and you don’t care if there’s someone reads the
data you transfer over network without your consent.
2-7-3-2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption, and
the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser:
Here are descriptions of every setup items:
Key Length (2):
There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and
128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but will
reduce some data transfer performance.
Key Format (3):
There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex.
When you select a key format, the number of
characters of key will be displayed. For example, if you
select ’64-bit’ as key length, and ‘Hex’ as key format,
you’ll see the message at the right of ‘Key Format’ is
‘Hex (10 characters), which means the length of WEP
key is 10 characters.
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