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Wireless security
Wireless Encryption
To make your wireless network safe, you should turn on the security function. The ADSL Wireless Modem Router supports WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), WPA/WPA2
Access Control
Access Control allows users to define the outgoing traffic permitted or
To add the PC to the filtering table:
1Click ‘Add PC’ on the Access Control screen.
2Define the appropriate settings for client PC services.
3Click ‘OK’ and then click ‘SAVE SETTINGS’ to save your settings.
MAC Filter
The ADSL Wireless Modem Router can also limit the network access based on the MAC address. The MAC Filtering Table allows the ADSL Wireless Modem Router to enter up to 32 MAC addresses that are not allowed access to the WAN port.
1Click Yes to enable, or No to disable this function.
2Enter the MAC address in the space provided and click ‘Save Settings’ to confirm.
Note: Also see ‘Finding the MAC address of a network card’ on page 32.
WEP
If you use WEP to protect your wireless network, you need to set the same parameters for the ADSL Wireless Modem Router and all your wireless clients.
You may automatically generate encryption keys or manually enter the keys.
To generate the key automatically with passphrase, check the Passphrase box, enter a string of characters. Select the default key from the drop down menu.
Click ‘SAVE SETTINGS’.
Note: The passphrase can consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters.
To manually configure the encryption key, enter five hexadecimal pairs of digits for each
(A hexadecimal digit is a number or letter in the range
Note that WEP protects data transmitted between wireless nodes, but does not protect any transmissions over your wired network or over the Internet.
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