●Infrastructure – to establish wireless communication with the LAN and other wireless clients through the use of Access Points or Wireless Router. This is most common type of connection.
●Ad‐Hoc – to establish point‐to‐point wireless communication directly with other wireless client devices.
Authentication: The following options are available: Open System, Shared Key, WPA‐PSK, WPA2‐PSK, WPA EAP‐TLS, WPA2 EPA‐TLS . Select Open System, Shared Key for WEP data encryption feature.
Open or Shared Key
Open System and Shared Key require the user to set a WEP key to exchange data with other wireless clients that have the same WEP key. WEP is considered basic level of wireless encryption, if you would like higher security connection, WPA2 encryption is recommended.
zDefault Key: select one of the 4 keys to use.
zNetwork Key: choose the encryption way, either in HEX or ASCII formats, and enter the password in the blank space.
zKey Length: select 64 or 128 bits as the length of the keys
Key Format: HEX or ASCII
Key Length | Hex | ASCII |
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Type | characters | alphanumeric format |
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10 characters | 5 characters | |
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26 characters | 13 characters | |
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