D-Link DWL-510 manual Configuration

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Configuration Utility

Configuration

This Configuration screen displays the default settings for the DWL-510.

To communicate on the network all devices must have the

same settings for the following properties:

SSID- (Service Set Identifier) is a name that identifies a wireless network. Access Points and wireless clients attempting to connect to a specific WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) must use the same SSID. The default setting is default.

Wireless Mode - Click on the pull-down menu; select from the following options: Infrastructure- connecting the WLAN using an Access Point. (The default setting.)

Ad-Hoc-wireless mode used when connecting directly to a computer equipped with a wireless adapter such as the D-Link Air DWL-650 Wireless Cardbus adapter in a peer-to-peer environment.

Data Encryption- Enable Encryption by choosing the enable on the box. The DWL- 510 has Encryption disabled as the default setting.

Authentication– Click on the pull-down menu; select from the following options: Open Authentication- communicates the key across the network

Shared Authentication- allows communication only with other devices with identical WEP settings

Key Length - Select the key length, either 64 or 128 bit using a key in either ASCII code for representing English letters as numbers from 0-127 (e.g., a word) or hexadecimal digits consist of the number 0-9 and the letters A-F.

Click Apply to save any changes made to the configuration of the wireless adapter.

If you enable WEP encryption make sure to enable the WEP encryption on all the devices in your network.

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