SMC Networks BLW-54MF Authentication, WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA-AUTO PSK. After selecting, Wep

2	Cancel If you do not want to configure this setting right now, click this
	button to exist this page.
	Apply Click this button to save/apply the settings and restart the
	system.
	6.2 Authentication
	In this page, you can configure the security of your wireless network.
	Selecting different method can make different levels of security. However,
	no matter what kind of authentication or encryption you use to prevent data
	packets from being eavesdropped by people without authentication, it may
	cause decrease of the data throughput of the wireless connection.
	Authentication
	There are four kinds of authentication of BLW-54MF Wireless Router:
	WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA-AUTO (PSK). After selecting the
	authentication mode, it has to cooperate with the encryption type. The
	settings of authentication on the destination network must be the same with
	BLW-54MF.
	WEP
	WEP is short for Wired Equivalent Privacy, a security protocol for
	WLANs defined in the 802.11b standard. WEP is designed to provide
	the same level of security as that of a wired LAN. WEP aims to provide
	security by encrypting data over radio waves so that it is protected as it
	transmitted from one end point to another. There are two kinds of WEP
	encryption: 64 bit and 128 bit. 64 bit needs 10 hex characters to be the key
	and 128 bit needs 26 hex characters.

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