Changing the Set-up of Your WLAN

Changing the Encryption Settings

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a security feature that encrypts the data being sent over the radio waves of your WLAN.

Disabled encryption allows your Wireless devices to share data in plain text. The default Encryption Key Length setting is Disabled.

Setting encryption to 64-Bitor 128-Bitencryption limits data sharing and increases data security, but may slow data transmission.

Set the level of security you require for your WLAN.

Note: For all the computers on your WLAN to communicate with each other and share data, they must have identical encryption (WEP) settings.

To change the encryption setting of your Wireless PCI Adapter:

1Open the Adaptec Wireless Utility. See Step 1 on page 29.

2Click the Encryption tab.

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