User's Manual

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Encryption Screen
Data Encryption
: Enable encryption by clicking in the box. Data
encryption is de-selected as the default setting.
Auth. Mode
:
- WEP Open Authentication:
communicates the key across the
network.
- WEP Shared Authentication:
allows communication only
with other devices with identical WEP settings.
- WPA: a dynamically changing encryption mechanism for
wireless networking that provides the user with encryption
strength up to 256-bit.
-
WPA-PSK
:
WPA authentication (802.1X) is used with a pre-
shared key. It is recommends to use WPA-PSK because it
provides the strongest security algorithm.
Default Key
:
Enter a key in either ASCII or hexadecimal format.
Select one of the 4 keys that you have created to be the default key.