Brother MFC-8870DW - Manual (Page 17)

Installing the Driver & Software
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Using the Setup Wizard from the control panel LAN menu for wireless
network configuration
Important
Make sure that you have finished the
instructions from Step 1 Setting Up the
Machine in the Quick Setup Guide.
These instructions will install your Brother machine in
a typical small office or home wireless network
environment in infrastructure mode, using a wireless
router or access point that uses DHCP to assign IP
addresses.
If you want to setup your machine in any other
wireless environment you can find instructions in the
Network User’s Guide on the CD-ROM.
You can view the Network User’s Guide by following
the instructions below.
1 Turn on your PC. Insert the Brother CD-ROM
labeled Windows Vista™ into your CD-ROM drive.
2 If the model name screen appears, click your
model name.
3 If the language screen appears, click your
language. The CD-ROM main menu will appear.
4 Click the User’s Guide.
5 Click the Network User’s Guide.
Note
If the window does not appear, use Windows ®
Explorer to run the start.exe program from the root
directory of the Brother CD-ROM.
Before you begin you must know your wireless
network settings.
1
Write down the wireless network settings of
your access point or wireless router.
SSID (Service Set ID or Network name)
_________________________
WEP Key (if needed)
________________________
WPA/WPA2-PSK (TKIP or AES) (if needed)
_________________________
The WEP key is for 64 bit encrypted networks
or 128 bit encrypted networks and can contain
both numbers and letters. If you do not know
this information you should see the
documentation provided with your access point
or wireless router. This key is a 64-bit or 128-bit
value that must be entered in an ASCII or
HEXADECIMAL format.
For example:
WPA/WPA2-PSK is a Wi-Fi
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Protected Access
Pre-share key, which lets the Brother wireless
machine associate with access points using
TKIP or AES encryption (WPA-Personal).
WPA/WPA2-PSK (TKIP or AES) uses a
Pre-Shared Key (PSK) that is more than 8 and
less than 63 characters in length.
See the Network User’s Guide for more details.
64 bit ASCII: Uses 5 text characters. e.g.
“Hello” (this is case sensitive)
64 bit
Hexadecimal: Uses 10 digits of hexadecimal
data. e.g. “71f2234aba”
128 bit ASCII: Uses 13 text characters. e.g.
“Wirelesscomms” (this is case
sensitive)
128 bit
Hexadecimal: Uses 26 digits of hexadecimal
data. e.g.
“71f2234ab56cd709e5412aa3ba”