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Setting up your wireless network adapter

Caution: If you are using a wireless client (such as your computer equipped with a wireless USB adapter) to turn on the security settings in your wireless router, 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. If you don’t remember the hex key, your client will be locked out of the wireless router.

To set up WPA-PSK (no server):

Note: Choose this setting if your network does not use a radius server. WPA-PSK or

WPA2-PSK (no server) is typically used in home and small office networking.

1Select WPA-PSKor WPA2-PSK (no server) from the Network Authentication menu on the Wireless Network Properties tab on the Edit information for a network page.

2Select TKIP or AES from the list.

3Enter your network key. This can be from eight to 63 characters and can be letters, numbers, or symbols. This same key must be used on all of the clients (network cards) that you want to include in your network.

4Click Save to finish. You must now set all clients (network cards) to match these settings.