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Figure 2-3-10
Defaults
Once this button is pressed, all the settings will be set back to the
default settings.
4. 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
) as shown in
Figure 2-3-11
. 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.
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 2-3-3
.
z
Create Keys Manually
Æ
Alphanumeric
Type 5/13 alphanumeric characters in the key field
z
Create Keys Manually
Æ
Hexadecimal
Type a 10/26 hexadecimal numbers (1-9; A-F) in the key field
