WR1500 4-Port Wireless DSL/Cable Router
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LABEL
DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
ESSID
ESSID
Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable 7-bit
Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable 7-bit
ASCII characters) for the wireless LAN.
If you change this fi eld on the WR1500 Wireless
Router, make sure all wireless stations use the
same ESSID in order to access the network.
Choose
Choose
To manually set the WR1500 Wireless Router to
use a channel, select a channel from the drop-
down list box. Open the
Channel Usage Table
screen to make sure the channel is not already
used by another AP or independent peer-to-peer
wireless network.
wireless network.
To have the WR1500 Wireless Router automatically
select a channel, click
Scan
instead.
Scan
Scan
Click this button to have the WR1500 Wireless
Click this button to have the WR1500 Wireless
Router automatically scan for and select a channel
with the least interference.
WEP
Encryption
Select
Select
Disable
allows all wireless computers to
communicate with the Wireless Routers without
any data encryption.
Select
64-bit WEP
or
128-bit WEP
to allow data
encryption.
ASCII
ASCII
Select this option in order to enter ASCII characters
Select this option in order to enter ASCII characters
as the WEP keys.
as the WEP keys.
HEX
Select this option to enter hexadecimal characters
Select this option to enter hexadecimal characters
as the WEP keys. The preceding “Ox” is entered
automatically. Leave this in front of our key.
Key 1 to Key 4
used to encrypt data. Both the WR1500 Wireless
Router and the wireless stations must use the
same WEP key for data transmission.
If you chose
64-bit WEP,
then enter any 5 ASCII
characters or 10 hexadecimal characters (“0-9”,
characters or 10 hexadecimal characters (“0-9”,
“A-F”). If you chose
128-bit WEP,
then enter 13
ASCII characters or 26 hexadecimal characters
(“0-9”, “A-F”).
You must confi gure all four keys, but only one key
can be activated at any one time. The default key
is key 1.
Next
Click
Click
Next
to continue.
Back
Click
Click
Back
to return to the previous screen.
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