LevelOne WAB-1000 - Manual (Page 26)

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All Rates
1 Mbps
2 Mbps
5.5 Mbps
6 Mbps
11 Mbps
12 Mbps
18 Mbps
24 Mbps
36 Mbps
48 Mbps
54 Mbps
The rate at which all data frames will be transmitted.
Preamble Short/Long
Preamble Specifies whether frames are transmitted with the Short or Long
Preamble
Broadcast
SSID Enabled/disabled When disabled, the AP hides the SSID in outgoing beacon frames and
stations cannot obtain the SSID through passive scanning.
Also, when it is disabled, the AP doesn’t send probe responses to probe
requests with unspecified SSIDs.
Encryption
The WAB-1000 will display a default factory setting of no encryption, but for security
reasons will not communicate to any clients unless the encryption is set by the administrator.
You must select the wireless encryption that you want to use, and click Apply. If you want to
leave the encryption set to No Encryption, click Apply without selecting any.
A popup dialog box will ask “Are you sure you want to proceed to BYPASS mode?” Click
OK to enter BYPASS mode with no encryption setting.
WEP Encryption
If you choose to use WEP encryption, you can also select whether it will be Open or Shared
Key authentication. For greater security, set authentication type to “shared key.” WEP Data
encryption can be set to 64-bit, 128-bit or 152-bit encryption.
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption is a security protocol for wireless local area
networks (WLANs) defined in the 802.11b standard. WEP was originally designed to provide
the same level of security for wireless LANs as that of a wired LAN but has come under attack
for its defaults and is not now state-of-the-art. WEP relies on the use of identical static keys