User's Manual

Chapter 5 Wireless

B222s User’s Guide

There are two t ypes of WEP aut hent icat ion nam ely, Open System (St a tic W EP) and Shared Key

( Sha r e d W EP).

Open system is im plem ent ed for ease- of- use and when securit y is not an issue. The wireless st ation

and t he AP or peer com put er do not share a secret key. Thus the wireless stat ions can associate

wit h any AP or peer com puter and listen t o any transm it t ed data t hat is not encrypt ed.

Shared key m ode involves a shared secret key t o aut hent icat e t he wireless st ation t o t he AP or peer

com puter. This r equires you t o enable t he wireless LAN securit y and use sam e sett ings on both the

wir eless stat ion and t he AP or peer com put er.

I n order t o configure and enable WEP encrypt ion, click N et w or k Set tings > W ire less t o display

the Gene ra l screen. Select Basic as t he security level. Then select St a tic W EP or Shar e d W EP

from the Secur it y M ode list .

Figure 22 Wireless > General: Basic ( Static WEP/ Shared WEP)

The following t able describes t he labels in t his screen.

Table 9 Wireless > General: Basic (St at ic WEP/ Shared WEP)

LABEL DESCRIPTION

Securit y Mode Choose St a t ic W EP or Sha r ed W EP from the drop-down list box.

• Select St at ic W EP t o have t he LTE Device allow association w it h w ireless client s

that use Open System m ode. Data t ransfer is encrypt ed as long as t he wireless

client has the correct WEP key for encrypt ion. The LTE Dev ice aut hent icat es

wireless client s using Shared Key m ode t hat have t he correct WEP key.

• Select Sha re d W EP to have t he LTE Device authent icat e only those w ireless

client s t hat use Shared Key m ode and have the correct WEP key.

WEP Key Enter a WEP key t hat will be used t o encrypt dat a. Both the LTE Device and t he

wireless stat ions m ust use t he sam e WEP key for data t ransm ission.

I f you want to m anually set t he WEP key, ent er any 5 or 13 charact ers ( ASCI I

st ring) or 10 or 26 hexadecim al charact ers ( "0- 9", "A- F") for a 64- bit or 128- bit

WEP key r espect ively.