Adaptec Ultra Wireless USB Adapter User’s Guide

transfer rate

The transfer rate is the speed at which your Wireless device is sending data. It is expressed in Mbps.

The default transfer rate setting, Auto Rate (or Automatic), allows your Wireless device to automatically adjust its transfer speed for optimal performance and the longest operating range. Adaptec recommends that whenever possible, you maintain the Auto Rate setting.

However, if your Wireless device's transfer rate changes frequently, you can set a lower transfer rate to achieve a more stable connection. The fixed rate speed options are 11 Mbps (the highest rate), 5.5 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 1 or 2 Mbps, or 1 Mbps.

USB

Stands for Universal Serial Bus.

WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a security feature that provides confidentiality (by encrypting the data being sent over the radio waves of your WLAN) and authentication (by using a shared key between the Wireless device and the AP).

WEP key

WEP keys control encryption.

WEP keys can be numeric, alphabetic, or a combination of both. You can choose between Hexadecimal, which restricts you to numbers 0–9 and letters A–F, and Alphanumeric, which restricts you to numbers 0–9 and letters a–z/A–Z.

The number of characters in your key depends on the encryption key length: 64-bit keys require 10 Hexadecimal or 5 Alphanumeric characters; 128-bit keys require 26 Hexadecimal or 13 Alphanumeric characters.

Wireless device

A Wireless device (or Wireless network device) is any Wireless device that connects to the network. See also network device.

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