Soho WER-401, User Manual

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WER-401 Wireless SOHO Firewall Gateway
FIELD DESCRIPTION
there is significant performance degradation when using WEP at these rates.
Disable Select this option ( Disable) to allow wireless adapters to communicate with the
Access Points without any data encryption (Open System).
64-bit WEP
1
Enter 5 characters or 10 digits ("0-9", "A-F") for each Key (1-4).
128-bit WEP Enter 13 characters or 26 digits ("0-9", "A-F") for each Key (1-4). Select one WEP
key as an active key to encrypt wireless data transmission.
Key 1
Key 2
Key 3
Key 4
There are four data encryption keys to secure your data from being eavesdropped
by unauthorized wireless users.
The values must be set up exactly the same on the Access Points as they are on
the wireless client stations. The same value must be assigned to Key 1 on both the
Access Point and the client adapters, the same value must be assigned to Key 2 on
both the Access Point and the client stations and so on, for all four WEP keys.
Enter ten hexadecimal digits (any combination of 0-9, a-f, or A-F) preceded by the
characters “0x” (e.g., 0x11aa22bb33). Or you may enter a five ASCII string key
(e.g., MyKey).
Allow All Allow all users to connect the WLAN without enabling MAC addresses filtering.
Allow User List (MAC
Address Filter) Allow some specific users to access the WLAN.
User Enter the User Name of some computer in WLAN.
MAC Address The MAC address related to the specific User of the computer in WLAN.
Help Click this button for HTML help on this screen.
Apply Click this button to save your changes back to the wireless SOHO Firewall gateway.
Cancel Click this button to cancel any configuration changes you made in this screen.
5.5 Status
Click the Status tab to display the next screen. Use this screen to display system information and statistics.
The table following the screen describes the fields displayed in the screen.
1
The 64-bit WEP data encryption method, allows for a five-character (40-bit) input. Additionally, 24 factory-set bits are added to the forty-bit input to
generate a 64-bit encryption key. (The 24 factory-set bits are not user-configurable). This encryption key will be used to encrypt/decrypt all data transmitted
via the wireless interface. Some vendors refer to the 64-bit WEP data encryption as 40-bit WEP data encryption since the user-configurable portion of the
encryption key is 40 bits wide.
5-12 The Basic Setup Screens