Item Name

Description

Authentication

Please select a wireless authentication type you wish to use. Available options are

Type

‘Open’, ‘Shared’, WPA-PSK’, ‘WPA2-PSK’, and ‘WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK’. If you want

 

to disable wireless data encryption, you must select ‘Open’.

Encryption Type

Please select an encryption mode. The available options in this setting item will vary

 

depending on the authentication type you select. If you select ‘Not Use’, data will not

 

be encrypted and people with some networking knowledge will be able to read the data

 

you transfer with proper tool.

WPA Pre-shared

Please input the WPA pre-shared key here. Only clients with the same pre-shared key

Key

you inputted here will be able to connect to your computer. This setting is only

 

available when you select one of WPA encryptions.

Group Rekey

You can specify the time interval to re-issue the key to your wireless clients here. You

Interval

can click the button ’10 seconds’ or ‘Kpackets’ to change the unit of time interval.

 

(every 10 seconds or a thousand data packets times the value you specified in ‘Group

 

Rekey Interval’ field).

Wep Key

Please input the WEP encryption key here when you select ‘WEP’ as encryption type.

 

There are 2 types of WEP key: Hex (number 0 to 9, and ASCII characters A to F) and

 

ASCII (all alphanumerical characters plus symbols). Please select the type of WEP key

 

first, and then input the WEP key according to the type of WEP key you selected. If you

 

want to use WEP 64 bits encryption, please input 10 characters if you select HEX, or

 

input 5 characters if you select ASCII. If you want to use WEP 128bits encryption,

 

please input 26 characters if you select HEX, or input 13 characters if you select ASCII.

 

128 bits encryption is safer then 64 bits, but the data transfer speed will be slightly

 

reduced.

3-3 Access Control

 

If you’re not going to open your computer and wireless resources to the public, you can use MAC address filtering function to enforce your access control policy, so only wireless clients with MAC address you defined by this function can be connected to your software access point.