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6. General Setup

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6.4.3.2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy

When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption, and the following
setup menu will be shown on your web browser:

Key Length

There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and 128-bit.

ey Format

There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex.

be displayed. For example, if you select “64-bit” as key length, and
“Hex” as key format, you’ll see the message at the right of “Key
Format” is Hex (10 characters), which means the length of WEP key

s.

one you should use, select “Key 1”.


Encryption Key

Input WEP key characters here, the number of characters must be

1 to 4 (5-8)

the same as the number displayed at “Key Format” field. You can
use any alphanumerical characters (0-9, a-z, and A-Z) if you select
“ASCII” key format, and if you select “Hex” as key format, you can
use characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at least one
encryption key here, and if you entered multiple WEP keys, they
should not be same with each other.

IEEE 802.1x is an authentication protocol. Every user must use a

uthentication

server.

es not

ommunication. If there is a RADIUS

server in you environment, please enable this function. Check this
box and another sub-menu will appear:

Using “128-bit” is safer than “64-bit”, but will reduce some data
transfer performance.


K

When you select a key format, the number of characters of key will

is 10 character

Default Tx Key

You can configure up to four sets of WEP key, and you can decide
which key is being used by default here.

If you don’t know which

Enable 802.1x
A

valid account to login to this wireless router before accessing the
wireless LAN. The authentication is processed by a RADIUS
This mode only authenticates user by IEEE 802.1x, but it do
encryption the data during c