Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Item Name

Description

 

Please select a wireless authentication type you wish to use.

Authentication

Available options are ‘Open’, ‘Shared’, WPA-PSK’, ‘WPA2-PSK’,

Type

and ‘WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK’. If you want to disable wireless

 

data encryption, you must select ‘Open’.

 

Please select an encryption mode. The available options in this

 

setting item will vary depending on the authentication type you

Encryption Type

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.

 

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

WPA Pre-shared

same pre-shared key you inputted here will be able to connect to

Key

your computer. This setting is only available when you select

 

one of WPA encryptions.

 

You can specify the time interval to re-issue the key to your

Group Rekey

wireless clients here. You can click the button ’10 seconds’ or

‘Kpackets’ to change the unit of time interval. (every 10 seconds

Interval

or a thousand data packets times the value you specified in

 

 

‘Group Rekey Interval’ field).

 

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.

WEP Key

 

 

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.

Show Password

Check this box and the WPA pre-shared key or WEP key you

inputted will be shown, but not replaced by asterisk (*).

 

When you finish with setting and want to save changes, click ‘OK’ button, or click ‘Cancel’ button to discard all changes you made.

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