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3.3 Security
This Access Point provides complete wireless LAN security functions, include WEP, IEEE
802.11x, IEEE 802.11x with WEP, WPA with pre-shared key and WPA with RADIUS. With these
security functions, you can prevent your wireless LAN from illegal access. Please make sure your
wireless stations use the same security function.
3.3.1 WEP only
When you select 64-bit or128-bit WEP key, you have to enter WEP keys to encrypt data. You can
generate the key by yourself and enter it. You can enter four WEP keys and select one of them
as default key. Then the router can receive any packets encrypted by one of the four keys
Parameters
Description
Key Length
You can select the WEP key length for
encryption, 64-bit or 128-bit. Larger WEP key
length will provide higher level of security, but
the throughput will be lower.
Key Format
You may select to select ASCII Characters
(alphanumeric format) or Hexadecimal Digits (in
the "A-F", "a-f" and "0-9" range) to be the WEP
Key.
For example:
ASCII Characters: guest