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Chapter 7 Connection Wizard
WAP3205 User’s Guide
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Wireless Security: WEP
Choose WEP security in the Security mode field to configure a WEP key for your
wireless network.
Figure 38 Wireless Security: WEP
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 24 Wireless Security: WEP
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Wireless
Network
Name
(SSID)
Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable 7-bit ASCII characters) for the
wireless LAN.
If you change this field on the WAP3205, make sure all wireless stations
use the same SSID in order to access the network.
Security
mode
Choose WEP security to enable data encryption using WEP keys.
WEP
Encryption
Select 64-bits or 128-bits.
This dictates the length of the security key that the network is going to
use.
Authenticati
on Method
Select Open or Shared Key from the drop-down list box.
This field specifies whether the wireless clients have to provide the WEP
key to login to the wireless client.
Select Shared Key to force the clients to provide the WEP key prior to
communication. Otherwise, select
Open.
Default Key You can configure up to four 64-bit or 128-bit WEP keys but only one key
can be enabled at any one time.
Select a default WEP key to use for data encryption.
Key If you chose 64-bit, then enter any 5 ASCII characters or 10 hexadecimal
characters ("0-9", "A-F").
If you chose 128-bit, then enter 13 ASCII characters or 26 hexadecimal
characters ("0-9", "A-F").