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Wireless LAN
Follow the instructions from your service provider.

WLAN netw. name

—Select

Enter manually

or

Search for

netw.

. If you select an existing network,

WLAN netw. mode

and

WLAN security mode

are determined by the settings

of its access point device.

WLAN netw. mode

—Select

Ad-hoc

to create an ad-hoc

network and to allow devices to send and receive data
directly; a wireless LAN access point device is not needed.

WLAN security mode

—Select the encryption used:

WEP

,

802.1x

(not for ad hoc networks), or

WPA/WPA2

. If you

select

Open network

, no encryption is used. The WEP,

802.1x, and WPA functions can be used only if the network
supports them.

WLAN security sett.

—Enter the settings for the selected

security mode:

Security settings for

WEP

:

Wep key in use

—Select the WEP key number. You can create

up to four WEP keys. The same settings must be entered on
the wireless LAN access point device.

Authentication type

—Select

Open

or

Shared

for the

authentication type between your device and the wireless
LAN access point device.

WEP key settings

—Enter

WEP encryption

(length of the

key),

WEP key format

(

ASCII

or

Hexadecimal

), and

WEP

key

(the WEP key data in the selected format).

Security settings for

802.1x

and

WPA/WPA2

:

WPA mode

—Select the means of authentication:

EAP

to use an extensible authentication protocol (EAP) plug-in,
or

Pre-shared key

to use a password. Complete the

appropriate settings:

EAP plug-in settings

(only for

EAP

)—Enter the settings

as your service provider instructs.

Pre-shared key

(only for

Pre-shared key

)—Enter a password.

The same password must be entered on the wireless LAN
access point device.

TKIP encryption

—Select whether Temporal Key Integrity

Protocol (TKIP) is used.

Homepage

—Define a home page.

Select

Options

>

Advanced settings

and from the

following:

IPv4 settings

:

Phone IP address

(the IP address of your

device),

Subnet mask

(the subnet IP address),

Default

gateway

(the gateway), and

DNS address

—enter the

IP addresses of the primary and secondary DNS server.
Contact your Internet service provider for these addresses.

IPv6 settings

>

DNS address

—Select

Automatic

,

Well-known

, or

User defined

.

Ad-hoc channel

(only for

Ad-hoc

)—To enter a channel

number (1-11) manually, select

User defined

.

Proxy serv. address

—Enter the address for the proxy server.

Proxy port number

—Enter the proxy port number.