User's Manual
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U
ser
M
anual
S
e
c
tion
3
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C
onfigu
r
a
tion
Wireless
S
ecurit
y
Wireless
security
is a key concern
for
any wireless network
installed
.
Unlike any
other
networking method
wireless networks
will
broadcast it’s presence
for
any
one
to
c
onnec
t
to
it
.
T
oday
,
wireless
security
has
advanced
to
a
level
wher
e
it
is
virtually impenetr
able
.
There are mainly
two
forms
of
wireless encryption and they are called Wired
E
quiv
alen
t
Privacy (WEP)
and Wi-Fi
P
r
ot
ec
t
ed
Access (WPA). WEP was
the first
secur
it
y
method
dev
eloped
.
I
t
is
a
lo
w
level
encryption
but
bett
er
than
no
w
encr
yption.
W
P
A
is
the
new
est
encryption
standar
d
and
with
the
advanced
W
P
A2
standard wireless networks
ha
v
e
finally r
each
a
point
wher
e
the
security
is
strong enough
to g
iv
e
users
the
peac
e
of mind
when installing wireless
net
w
or
ks
.
Wired
E
quiv
alen
t
Privacy
(
WEP
)
WEP
pr
o
vides
two
variations called
O
pen
S
y
stem
and
S
hared
K
e
y
.
O
pen
S
y
stem
will
send
a
r
equest
t
o
the
acc
ess
point
and
if
the
key
used
ma
t
ches
the
one
c
onfigur
ed
on
the
acc
ess
poin
t
,
the
acc
ess
point
will
return
a
succ
ess
message
back
to
the
wir
eless
clien
t
.
I
f
the
key
does
not
ma
t
ch
the
one
c
onfigur
ed
on
the
acc
ess
poin
t
,
the
acc
ess
point will
den
y
the
connection r
equest
from
the
wireless
clien
t
.
S
hared
K
e
y will
send
a
r
equest
to
the
acc
ess
point
and
if
the
key
used
ma
t
ches
the
one
c
onfigur
ed
on
the
acc
ess
poin
t
,
the
acc
ess
point will
send
a
challenge
to
the
clien
t
.
T
he
clien
t
will
then
again
send
a
c
onfir
ma
tion
of
the
same
key
back
to
the
access
point
wher
e
the
access
point will
either return
a
successful
or
a
denial packet back
to
the
wireless
clien
t
.
Encr
yption:
Key
T
ype*:
Key
Size:
Key
Index
(1-4):
Ke
y
:
Use
the
radio
button to
disable
or enable
encryption.
S
elec
t
HEX
or
ASCII.
S
elec
t
64 Bits
or
128
Bits
.
S
elec
t
the
1st
through the 4th
key
to be the active
key
.
Input up to four
keys
for
encryption. You
will select
one
of
these keys
in the
Key Index
drop-down
menu
.
**Hexadecimal
(HEX)
digits
consist
of the
numbers 0-9 and
the
letters
A
-F
.
*ASCII (American
S
tandar
d
Code
for
Information
I
n
t
erchange)
is a code
that
represents English letters
using
numbers ranging
from 0-127.