9 wireless security – AirLive WL-5460AP v2 User Manual

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AirLive WL-5460AP v2 User Manual

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3.9 Wireless Security

Here you can configure the security of your wireless network. Selecting different method

will enable you to have different level of security. Please note that by using any encryption,

by which data packet is encrypted before transmission to prevent data packets from being

eavesdropped by unrelated people, there may be a significant degradation of the data

throughput on the wireless link.


WL-5460AP provides WEP, WPA-PSK (TKIP),

WPA2-PSK (AES) and WPA2-PSK (AES)

security policy.





WEP

WEP allows you to use data encryption to secure your data from being eavesdropped by

malicious people. It allows 2 types of key: 64 (WEP64) and 128 (WEP128). You can

configure up to 4 keys

using either ASCII or

Hexadecimal format.


Key Settings: The length

of a WEP64 key must be

equal to 5 bytes and a

WEP128 key is 13 bytes

Default Tx Key: You have

to specify which of the four

keys will be active.

Once you enable the WEP

function, please make sure

that both the WL-5460AP

and the wireless client

stations use the same key.

Note

Some wireless client cards only allow Hexadecimal digits for WEP keys. Please

note that when configuring WEP keys, a WEP128 ASCII key looks like “This is a

key”(13 characters), while a WEP128 Hex key looks like

546869732069732061206b6579”(26 HEX) (hexadecimal notation are 0-9 and

A-F).

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