Cub Cadet EW-7416APN manual

2-7-2 WEP

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a common encryption mode, it’s safe enough for home and personal use. But if you need higher level of security, please consider using WPA encryption (see next Section).

However, some wireless clients don’t support WPA, but only support WEP, so WEP is still a good choice for you if you have such kind of client in your network environment.

When you select ‘WEP’ as encryption type, the following messages will be displayed:

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Key Length	There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and
	128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but
	will reduce some data transfer performance.
Key Format	There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex.
	When you select a key format, the number of
	characters of key will 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 is 10 characters.

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