Asante Technologies FR1000 - Manual (Page 42)

42 Asanté FriendlyNET Internet Router with Firewall
Network ID (SSID)
Enter up to 32 characters as a Service Set IDentifier for your wireless LAN
(WLAN). You may use any combination of printable alpha or numeric characters.
Since this field is case-sensitive, default is not the same as Default. The SSID
separates one WLAN from another; it must be unique.
Some acceptable examples include:
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default
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wireless
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AsanteFriendlyNET
Tip: Because the network ID can easily be discovered, do not use any secret
information (like other passwords) as your SSID.
6.3 WEP Security Settings
The router uses the IEEE 802.11b standard wired equivalency privacy (WEP)
security protocol. Since any encryption security can be compromised, WEP of-
fers basic privacy protection.
Before turning on WEP, verify that your WLAN connections are working properly.
Otherwise, it will be significantly more difficult to troubleshoot the network if you
turn on security settings. Once you have verified the wireless range and per-
formance, you should turn on WEP.
WEP Security
Click to enable 64-bit or 128-bit shared key security. Normally, you would turn on
128-bit security—unless you have some older equipment that can only handle
64-bit (or 40-bit) WEP.
WEP Key 1, 2, 3, 4
Each key consists of hexadecimal numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C D,
E, F). If you are using 64-bit WEP, you may specify up to 4 different security
keys. Each key may be up to 10 digits long. Examples:
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0123456789
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408ABCD942