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œCancelĈIfyou do not want to configure this setting right now, click this
buttonto exist this page.
œApplyĈClickthis button to save/apply the settings and restart the
system.
6.2Authentication
In this page,you can configure the security of your wireless network.
Selectingdifferent method can make different levels of security. However,
nomatter what kind of authentication or encryption you use to prevent data
packetsfrom being eavesdropped by people without authentication, it may
causedecrease of the data throughput of the wireless connection.
Authentication
There are four kinds of authentication of BLW-54MFWireless Router:
WEP,WPA,WPA2,and W PA-AUTO (PSK). After selecting the
authentication mode,it has to cooperate with the encryption type. The
settingsof authentication on the destination network must be the same with
BLW-54MF.
ƖWEP
WEP is short forWired Equivalent Privacy, a security protocol for
WLANs defined i n the 802.11b standard. WEP is desi gned to provide
the same level of security as that of a wired LAN. WEPaims to provide
security by encrypting data over radio waves so that it is protected as it
transmitted from one end point to another.There are two kinds of WEP
encryption:64 bit and 128 bit. 64 bit needs 10 hex characters to be the key
and128 bit needs 26 hex characters.