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Figure 2-3-10

Defaults

Once this button is pressed, all the settings will be set back to the

default settings.

4. Encryption

Encryption is designed to make the data transmission more secure. you

can select 64 or 128-bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key to encrypt

data (Default setting is Disable) as shown in Figure 2-3-11. WEP

encrypts each frame transmitted from the radio using one of the Keys

from this panel. When you use WEP to communicate with the other

wireless clients, all the wireless devices in this network must have the

same encryption key or passphrase.

Choose one of the encryption key (64 bit or 128bit) from the Encryption

(WEP Security) drop-down list to create encryption key. Click either on

Create Keys Manually radio button or on Create Keys with

Passphrase radio button. There are two ways, Alphanumeric and

Hexadecimal, to set the different characters as shown in Table 2-3-3.

z Create Keys ManuallyÆAlphanumeric

Type 5/13 alphanumeric characters in the key field

z Create Keys ManuallyÆHexadecimal

Type a 10/26 hexadecimal numbers (1-9; A-F) in the key field