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The Site Survey Tab
Clicking on the “Site Survey” tab will display a list of all available access
points in your area. The following information about each is displayed:
(a) BSSID–The MAC address of the access point.
(b) SSID–The Service Set Identifier (wireless network name) of the access point.
(c) Signal–The signal strength of the related access point. This is a
“snapshot” of the signal strength at the time of the site survey. Pressing
the “Re-Scan” (g) button may get a different result.
(d) Channel–The current operating channel of the access point.
(e) Encryption–Will display “No” when encryption is disabled, “64-bit” when
64-bit encryption is enabled, and “128-bit” when 128-bit encryption is
enabled.
(f) BSS–Displays the mode that the access point is operating in:
Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc.
TIP-> Double-clicking on the BSSID of an access point will make the Card join that
particular network. To check the area for more access points, click “Re-Scan”.
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The Encryption Tab
The “Encryption” tab is used to set up the wireless encryption settings.
There are two ways to set up the encryption settings of your card: “Create
with Passphrase” or “Manual Entry”. Select “64-bit” from the drop-down menu.
You will notice when using 64-bit encryption, there are four keys labeled
“Key 1” through “Key 4”. Only one key can be used at a time. For ease of use,
the software can generate keys using a passphrase that you enter. This
passphrase can be easily distributed to other wireless-equipped computer
users in your network. For instance, creating a key using the passphrase
“Passphrase” generates four keys in 64-bit encryption mode and one key in
128-bit encryption mode. In this scenario, a user of a laptop needs only to
enter the passphrase and the key number into the computer’s wireless
management software to be able to communicate while using encryption. All
computers on the network must use the same encryption rate, passphrase, and
key. The passphrase can be changed as often as desired.