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Defaults
Once this button is pressed, all the settings will be set back to the default settings.
Encryption
Encryption is designed to make the data transmission more secure. you can
select 64 or 128-bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key to encrypt data (Default
setting is
Disable
). WEP encrypts each frame transmitted from the radio using one of
the Keys from this panel. When you use WEP to communicate with the other wireless
clients, all the wireless devices in this network must have the same encryption key or
passphrase
.
Encryption (WEP)
Choose one of the encryption key (64 bit or
128bit) from the
Encryption (WEP
Security)
drop-down list to create
encryption key. Click either on
Create Keys
Manually
radio button or on
Create Keys
with Passphrase
radio button. There are
two ways,
Alphanumeric
and
Hexadecimal
, to set the different characters
as shown in
Table 3
.
Create Keys Manually: Alphanumeric
Type 5/13 alphanumeric characters in the
key field
Create Keys Manually: Hexadecimal
Type a 10/26 hexadecimal numbers (1-9;
A-F) in the key field
Use WEP Key
This drop-down list allows you to specify which of the four encryption keys that
you want to use.
Create Keys with Passphrase
Type a character string in the field Passphrase.
Data
Mode
Alphanumeric
Hexadecimal
64 bit
5
10
128 bit
13
26
Table 3
Figure 17
