Enabling encryption – Dell 2300 Wireless Broadband Router User Manual
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Enabling Encryption
Because wireless networks transmit data using radio frequency transmission, other computers with wireless network adapters
that are within range of your wireless broadband router can connect to your network. You can deter unauthorized access to
your wireless network by enabling encryption. When you enable encryption, you must specify a network encryption key, or
simply, network key. The network key can be a combination of numbers, letters, or numbers and letters. The network key must
match the network key that you specified at your wireless broadband router.
1. From the desktop, click on the Start button and click on Control Panel.
2. If you are looking at the Category View of Control Panel, click on Switch to Classic View. If you are looking at the
Classic View of Control Panel, go to the next step.
3. Double-click the Network Connections icon.
4. Right-click your adapter in the LAN or High-Speed Internet area and click on Properties.
5. If the Wireless Networks tab is not on top, click on the Wireless Networks tab.
6. Verify that the Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings box is selected. If it is not, select it.
7. Select your wireless network from the Available networks list and click on Configure.
8. In the Wireless Network Properties box under Wireless network key (WEP), select Data encryption (WEP enabled)
and unselect The key is provided for me automatically. This will allow you to enter an encryption key into the field
marked Network key.
9. Enter your network key into the Network key field. You do not need to set the Key format or Key length, but these fields
may automatically change depending on the length of your key and on whether you use letters in your key.
10. Once you have entered your key, click OK at the bottom of the Wireless Network Properties box.
NOTE: If the network encryption key on your wireless USB adapter does not match the key set at your wireless
broadband router, your PC will fail to connect to the network.