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III. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
WEP encryption implementation was not put in place with the 802.11 standard.
This means that there are about as many methods of WEP encryption as there are
providers of wireless networking products. In addition, WEP is not completely
secure. One piece of information still not encrypted is the MAC address, which
hackers can use to break into a network by spoofing (or faking) the MAC address.
When choose the encryption to WEP mode, click the “Use WEP Security” to
enable the WEP security function, some setting as follow:
 64-bits: selecting the 64bit, you must type 10 values in the following range
(0~F, hexadecimal).
 128-bits: selecting the 128bit, you must type 26 values in the following range
(0~F, hexadecimal).
IV. 802.1x Security
To address the shortcomings of WEP for authentication, the industry is working
towards solutions based on the 802.1x specification, which is based on the
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). EAP was designed with flexibility in
mind, and it has been used as the basis for a number of network authentication
extensions.
Click to enable the 802.1x security function.
 Key Size: selecting the 64bit or 128-bit for the key size of the 802.1x security.
 Group Key Setting:
No Rekeying: the clients will not need to re-key the password to authenticate
with the Radius Server.