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●Infrastructure–toestablishwirelesscommunicationwiththeLANandother
wirelessclientsthroughtheuseofAccessPointsorWirelessRouter.Thisis
mostcommontypeofconnection.
●Ad‐Hoc–toestablishpoint‐to‐pointwirelesscommunicationdirectlywith
otherwirelessclientdevices.
Authentication: The following options
are available: Open System, Shared Key,
WPA‐PSK,WPA2‐PSK,WPAEAP‐TLS,WPA2EPA‐TLS.SelectOpenSystem,Shared
KeyforWEPdataencryptionfeature.
OpenorSharedKey
OpenSystemandSharedKeyrequiretheusertosetaWEPkeytoexchangedata
withotherwirelessclientsthathavethesameWEPkey .WEPisconsideredbasic
levelofwirelessencryption,ifyouwouldlikehighersecurityconnection,WPA2
encryptionisrecommended.
z DefaultKey:selectoneof
the4keystouse.
z NetworkKey:choosetheencryptionway,eitherinHEXorASCIIformats,
andenterthepasswordintheblankspace.
z KeyLength:select64or128bitsasthelengthofthekeys
KeyFormat:HEXorASCII
Key Length Hex ASCII
Type characters 0-9, A-F, a-f alphanumeric format
64-bit 10 characters 5 characters
128-bit 26 characters 13 characters