WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a common encryption mode, it’s safe enough for home and personal use. But if you need higher level of security, please consider using WPA encryption (see next Section).
However, some wireless clients don’t support WPA, but only support WEP, so WEP is still a good choice for you if you have such kind of client in your network environment.
When you select ‘WEP’ as encryption type, the following messages will be displayed:
Here are descriptions of every setup item:
Key Length | There are two types of WEP key length: |
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| will reduce some data transfer performance. |
Key Format | There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex. |
| When you select a key format, the number of |
| characters of key will be displayed. For example, if |
| you select |
| format, you’ll see the message at the right of ‘Key |
| Format’ is ‘Hex (10 characters), which means the |
| length of WEP key is 10 characters. |
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