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indicating that that by redirecting the signal that would have
gone straight up or down to the horizontal level, 4 times as
much signal is available horizontally. A parabolic reflector
design can easily achieve 24 dBi.
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Short for Wired Equivalent Privacy, WEP is a security
protocol for wireless local area networks (WLANs)
defined in the 802.11b and 802.11a standards.
WEP is designed to provide the same level of security as
that of a wired LAN. LANs are inherently more secure than
WLANs because LANs are somewhat protected by the
physicalities of their structure, having some or all part of
the network inside a building that can be protected from
unauthorized access. WLANs, which are over radio waves,
do not have the same physical structure and therefore are
more vulnerable to tampering.
WEP aims to provide security by encrypting data over radio
waves so that it is protected as it is transmitted from one
end point to another. The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
feature uses the RC4 PRNG algorithm developed by RSA
Data Security, Inc.
If your wireless access point supports MAC filtering, it is
recommended that you use this feature in addition to WEP
(MAC filtering is much more secure than encryption).
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What is WEP?
