Wds

If the signal strength of a single wireless base station is not sufficient due to a large coverage area or attenuation due to walls, with WDS the range of a wireless base station can be extended.

All base stations in a Wireless Distribution System must be configured with the same radio channel, and encryption type (WEP / WPA) if that is used.

Note: The WDS feature is not completely specified in IEEE or Wifi standards. Therefore it cannot be guaranteed that WDS will work with products of different vendors.

WEP

If you use WEP to protect your wireless network, you need to set the same parameters for the ADSL Wireless Base Station and all your wireless clients.

You may automatically generate encryption keys or manually enter the keys. To generate the key automatically with passphrase, check the Passphrase box, enter a string of characters. Select the default key from the drop down menu. Click ‘SAVE SETTINGS’.

Note: The passphrase can consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters.

To manually configure the encryption key, enter five hexadecimal pairs of digits for each 64-bit key, or enter 13 pairs for the single 128-bit key.

(A hexadecimal digit is a number or letter in the range 0-9 or A-F.)

Note that WEP protects data transmitted between wireless nodes, but does not protect any transmissions over your wired network or over the Internet.

WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) combines temporal key integrity protocol (TKIP) and 802.1x mechanisms. It provides dynamic key encryption and 802.1x authentication service.

802.1X

If 802.1x is used in your network, then you should enable this function for the ADSL

Wireless Base Station. These parameters are used for the ADSL Wireless Base

Station to connect to the authentication server.