Chapter 7 Wi-Fi
WAH7003 User’s Guide
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SSID The SSID (Service Set IDentity) identifies the service set with which a wireless device is
associated. Wireless devices associating to the access point (AP) must have the same SSID.
Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 English keyboard characters) for the wireless LAN.
Hide SSID Select On to hide the SSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station cannot obtain the
SSID through scanning using a site survey tool. Otherwise, select Off.
Encryption Type Select WEP or WPA Personal to add security on this wireless network. The wireless clients
which want to associate to this network must have same wireless security settings as the
WAH7003. When you select to use a security, additional options appears in this screen.
Or you can select None to allow any client to associate this network without any data
encryption or authentication.
The following fields are available if you set Encryption Type to WEP.
Authentication
Method
This field specifies whether the wireless clients have to provide the WEP key to log into the
wireless network.
Select SHARED KEY to force the clients to provide the WEP key prior to communication.
Select OPEN SYSTEM if you do NOT want to force a key verification before communication
between the wireless client and the WAH7003 occurs.
Select AUTO to have the WAH7003 automatically determine a WEP authentication method
to use according to the connected wireless clients.
WEP Encryption
Length
Select 64-bit or 128-bit. This dictates the length of the security key that the network is
going to use.
Key 1 ~ Key 4 The WEP keys are used to encrypt data. Both the WAH7003 and the wireless clients must
use the same WEP key for data transmission.
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").
You must configure at least one password, only one password can be activated at any one
time. The default password is Key 1.
Select ASCII in order to enter ASCII characters as WEP key. Select HEX in order to enter
hexadecimal characters as a WEP key.
The following fields are available if you set Encryption Type to WPA Personal.
WPA Mode Select Auto(WPA or WPA2) to allow wireless devices that support either WPA or WPA2 to
connect to your WAH7003’s wireless network.
Select WPA to allow only wireless devices that support WPA to connect to your WAH7003’s
wireless network.
Select WPA2 to allow only wireless devices that support WPA2 to connect to your
WAH7003’s wireless network.
Cipher Type Select the encryption type (TKIP, AES or TKIP and AES) for data encryption.
Select AES if your wireless clients can all use AES.
Select TKIP if your wireless clients can all use TKIP.
Select TKIP and AES to allow the wireless clients to use either TKIP or AES.
Pre-shared Key Enter a pre-shared key of between 8 and 63 case-sensitive ASCII characters (including
spaces and symbols) or 64 hexadecimal characters.
Apply Click Apply to save your changes.
Table 26 Wi-Fi > Basic (continued)
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