User's Manual

Altai A8n (ac) Series Super WiFi Base Station

Configuration Guide

Configure WLAN with Shared Key Authentication

Shared Key authentication is one of the authentication methods with

WEP encryption. It verifies that station has knowledge of a shared

secret.

Figure 23 – Shared Key Authentication of AP

1. Go to Configuration > Wireless > Radio0(2.4G) > WLAN > WLAN 0-15

> WLAN Security

2. Select Shared in Authentication Mode

3. Select WEP in Cipher Mode

4. Select key number 1 – 4 in Default WEP Key

5. Select Key Entry Method

Ascii Text

key is encoded as ASCII characters (0–9, a–z, A–Z)

Hexadecimal

key is encoded as Hexadecimal characters (0–9, A–F)

6. Type in up to four keys in WEP Key 1, WEP Key 2, WEP Key 3 and WEP

Key 4 respectively. You can type either up to 5 Ascii characters or

up to 10 Hexadecimal characters as WEP Key

7. Click Submit

8. Click Save & Apply