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WL-5470 POE User’s Manual 47
3.9 Wireless Security
Here you can configure the security of your wireless network. Selecting different method will enable you to
have different level of security. Please note that by using any encryption, by which data packet is encrypted
before transmission to prevent data packets from being eavesdropped by unrelated people, there may be a
significant degradation of the data throughput on the wireless link.
WL-5470POE provides WEP, WPA-PSK (TKIP),
WPA2-PSK (AES) and WPA2-PSK (AES) security policy.
WEP
WEP allows you to use data encryption to secure your data from being eavesdropped by malicious people. It
allows 2 types of key: 64 (WEP64) and 128 (WEP128). You can configure up to 4 keys using either ASCII or
Hexadecimal format.
Key Settings: The length of a
WEP64 key must be equal to 5
bytes and a WEP128 key is 13
bytes
Default Tx Key: You have to
specify which of the four keys will
be active.
Once you enable the WEP
function, please make sure that
both the WL-5470POE and the
wireless client stations use the
same key.
Some wireless client cards only allow Hexadecimal digits for WEP keys. Please note that when
configuring WEP keys, a WEP128 ASCII key looks like “This is a key”(13 characters), while a
WEP128 Hex key looks like “546869732069732061206b6579”(26 HEX) (hexadecimal notation are
0-9 and A-F).