Monoprice 8744 PoE Wireless Access Point - Manual (Page 39)

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Appendix I: Glossary
Access Point (AP): Any entity that has station functionality and
provides access to the distribution services, via the wireless medium
(WM) for associated stations.
Channel: An instance of medium use for the purpose of passing
protocol data units (PDUs) that may be used simultaneously, in the
same volume of space, with other instances of medium use(on other
channels) by other instances of the same physical layer (PHY),with an
acceptably low frame error ratio(FER) due to mutual interference.
SSID: Service Set identifier. An SSID is the network name shared by all
devices in a wireless network. Your network’s SSID should be unique to
your network and identical for all devices within the network. It is
case-sensitive and must not exceed 20 characters (use any of the
characters on the keyboard).Make sure this setting is the same for all
devices in your wireless network.
WEP: Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the method for secure
wireless data transmission. WEP adds data encryption to every single
packet transmitted in the wireless network. The 40bit and 64bit
encryption are the same because of out 64 bits, 40 bits are
private. Conversely, 104 and 128 bit are the same. WEP uses a
common KEY to encode the data. Therefore, all devices on a wireless
network must use the same key and same type of encryption. There
are 2 methods for entering the KEY; one is to enter a 16-bit HEX
digit. Using this method, users must enter a 10-digit number (for 64-bit)
or 26-digit number (for 128-bit) in the KEY field. Users must select the