User Manual Wireless Cardbus Adapter 108M

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WLCB54GS Manual

There are 4 security setting ways for preventing intruders

from Wireless LAN.

• ESSID (Extended Service Set IDentiﬁer)

ESSID (or SSID) is the name of a wireless local area network

(WLAN). All wireless devices on a WLAN must employ the

same ESSID in order to communicate with each other. You

may set either manually, by entering the SSID into the cli-

ent network settings, or automatically, by leaving the SSID

unspeciﬁed or blank. Some newer wireless access points

disable the automatic SSID broadcast feature in an attempt

to improve network security.

• WEP (Wireless Encryption Protocol)

WEP is available in 64-bit, or in 128-bit encryption modes.

As 128-bit encryption provides a longer algorithm that

takes longer to decode, it can provide better security than

basic 64-bit encryption. Recommended enable this func-

tion to protect the data stream.

• WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access)

Wi-Fi Protected Access which authorizes and identiﬁes

users based on a secret key that changes automatically at

regular intervals. WPA uses TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity

Protocol) to change the temporal key every 10,000 packets

(a packet is a kind of message transmitted over a network.)

This ensures much greater security than the standard WEP

security. (By contrast, the previous WEP encryption imple-

mentations required the keys to be changed manually.)

Security Configuration