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“Preamble”, eith er “ Long pr eam ble” or “Short preamble” defines the leng th of the
CRC block (Cyclic Redundancy Check is a common technique for detecting data
transm issi on err ors) fo r c omm unica tio n be twee n th e A cce ss Poin t an d th e r oam ing
wirele ss device. Lon g Preamble is the de fault setting. No te: High netw ork traffic area s
should use the shorter preamble type.
“Data encryption”, checkin g the box to enable the data encry ption. By d efault it is
disabled.
“Auth. Mode”, choosing one of the following modes, (Auto is the default setting)
“Auto” – Will automatically decide the authentication mode of the wir eless client.
“Shared” – allows communication only with other devices with identical WEP settings.
“Open” – communicates the key across the network.
“Key length”, selecting the key length among 64, 128 or 256 bits. 64bits is the
defau lt setting.
“Key format”, including hexadecimal or A S CII. “HEX” i s the de f ault setti ng.
“HEX” digi ts consi st of the n umbers 0~9 and th e letter s A-F.
“ASCII” is a code for representing English letters as numbers from 0-127 except “, <,
> and space characters that are reserved.
“Netw or k K e y”, ent er in g a k ey i n ei t her h exa d ecimal or ASCII fo rm at . When sel ect i ng
different key length, acceptable inp u t le ng th is lis ted as following:
64 bits key length: 10 Hex d igits o r 5 characters.
128 bites key length: 26 Hex digits or 13 characters .
256 bits key length: 58 Hex d igits o r 29 characters.
Note: When 22(“), 3C(<) or 3E(>) are input in network key, the key format can’t be
changed to ASCII fo r m a t.
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