Using the Belkin Wireless Networking Utility
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3. Click “Save” to finish. Encryption in the wireless router (or
access point) is now set. Each of your computers on your wireless
network will now need to be configured with the
same security settings.
WARNING: If you are using a wireless client to turn on the security settings in
your wireless router (or access point), you will temporarily lose your wireless
connection until you activate security on your wireless client. Please record
the key prior to applying changes in the wireless router (or access point). If
you don’t remember the hex key, your client will be locked out of the wireless
router (or access point).
128-Bit WEP Encryption
1. Select “WEP” from the drop-down menu.
2. After selecting your WEP encryption mode, you can enter your key
manually by typing in the hex key manually, or you can type in a
passphrase in the “Passphrase” field and click “Generate” to create a
key.
A hex (hexadecimal) key is a combination of numbers and letters from
A–F and 0–9. For 128-bit WEP, you need to enter 26 hex keys.
For instance:
C3 03 0F AF 0F 4B B2 C3 D 4 4B C3 D4 E7 = 128-bit WEP key