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Status
A typical screen of the application in Infrastructure mode is shown in
Figure 2-7
. The
Network Address
section shows the current Network
status such as the MAC address, Subnet Mask address, Gateway address
and DNS server address that you can easily monitor these settings without
the “ipconfig” provided by windows.
In order to change the configuration parameters press the
Configuration
button, then it will pop-up a dialog for you to input your settings as shown in
Figure 2-8
.
Figure 2-8
There’s 3 property pages in the
Configuration
property sheet, which
include
General, Encryption,
and
Advanced
.
General
In this page, user can configure the station card with its Network type, SSID
(up to 32 characters), channel, and the Desire Tx Rate (Automatic/ 1Mbps/
2Mps/ 5.5Mbps/ 11Mbps).
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Encryption
By choosing this option, you can set the card with its encryption mode to
NONE or WEP, the authentication mode to
Open system
or
Shared key
or
Auto Switch
.
When set as WEP enabled, you have to set/complete the WEP key
materials, key materials length and specify which one of them as the default
key (1 to 4) correctly, which means 4 different keys should be in the same
length or empty, and the default key radio button should be set to the set
with non-empty key material. If the setting is not complete, the APPLY
button will remain to be “gray” and cannot be clicked until user do correct
settings of this page.
If you require high security in transmission, you can select 40 or 104-bit
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key to encrypt data (Default setting is
None
). 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 pass phrase.
