NETGEAR ME101 Enabling WEP Security on the Bridge

Enabling WEP Security on the Bridge

To prevent others from accessing your wireless network, you may want to enable WEP (Wired

Equivalent Privacy) security in your wireless router or access point. If you do so, you’ll need to

enable WEP security in the bridge, too. You use the configuration utility to change the security

setting for the bridge. To do so, you must have the bridge directly connected to a computer.

See Installing the ME101 on page 4 and Installing the Configuration Utilityon page 7. If you

filled in the parameters on page 6, you may want to refer to them for this procedure.

Note: The default security setting has WEP security disabled.

1. Choose Programs>NETGEAR ME101 Bridge>ME101 Configuration Utilityfrom the

Start menu.

2. If the bridge’s name doesn’t appear in the Bridge Namelist, select Brows e to have the

utility search for an active bridge.

3. Type the password. (passwordis the default.)

4. Click Login.

5. Click the Security tab.

6. Select the type of security you have set in your wireless

router or access point—either 40/64 or 128 bit.

7. If the key is determined through software, select Create

with Passphraseand type the phrase in the Passphrase

box.

If you entered a key manually for your wireless router

or access point, select Manual Entry and type the

encryption keys that are used with the wireless router

or access point.

8. Click Apply.

9. If you are through making changes, click Exit.