DG-WA30002NP User Manual
2-7-2 WEP
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a common encryption mode, it’s safe
enough for home and personal use. But if you need higher level of security,
please consider using WPA encryption (see next Section).
However, some wireless clients don’t support WPA, but only support WEP,
so WEP is still a good choice for you if you have such kind of clients in your
network environment.
When you select ‘WEP’ as encryption type, the following fields will be
displayed:
Here is the description of every setup item:
Parameter Description
Key Length
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There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and
128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than’ 64-bit’, but
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extent.
Key Format
ns the length of WEP key is 10
There are two types of key formats: ASCII and
Hex. When you select a key format, the number of
characters of the key will be displayed. For
example, if you select ‘64-bit’ as key length, and
‘Hex’ as key format, you’ll see the message at the
right of ‘Key Format’ is ‘Hex (10 characters)’,
which mea
characters.
Default Tx Key By default key 1 is selected here.
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