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Only use this option when you really want to allow everyone to use your
wireless router, and you don’t care if there’s someone reads the data you
transfer over network without your consent.
2-7-3-2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy
When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption,
and the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser:
Here are descriptions of every setup items:
Key Length (2): There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and
128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but
will reduce some data transfer performance.
Key Format (3): There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex.
When you select a key format, the number of
characters of key will be displayed. For example, if
you select ’64-bit’ as key length, and ‘Hex’ as key
format, you’ll see the message at the right of ‘Key
Format’ is ‘Hex (10 characters), which means the
length of WEP key is 10 characters.
Default Tx Key (4): You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you can
decide which key is being used by default here. If
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