Asus WL-330 - Manual (Page 43)

3-17 ASUS Pocket Wireless Access Point (WL-330)
Configuration
Click the Associated Stations link (beside the SSID) to displays the list of
wireless device(s) associated with the ASUS Pocket Wireless AP. The list
includes the wireless device(s) MAC address and connection status.
Click Back to return to the Simple Setup page.
Channel. Allows you to specify the channel the device uses to communicate
with other wireless device(s) in the network.
The 802.11b specification supports up to 14 overlapping channels for radio
communication. If several ASUS Pocket Wireless APs are operating in the
same area, assign a non-overlapping channel to each device to avoid
interference. Refer to page 3-24 for channel information.
Basic Rate Set. This option allows you to specify the data transmission rate.
Select from 11, 5.5, 2 and 1 Mbps data transfer rate.
Preamble. Allows you to set the preamble mode for a 2.4GHz/11Mb network to
Long, Short, or Auto. The default preamble mode is Long.
Authentication Method. The Authentication Method field allows you to enable
or disable the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption. Refer to page
3-5 for details.
Encryption. This option allows you to specify a 64-bit or a 128-bit WEP key. A
64-bit encryption contains 10 hexadecimal digits or 5 ASCII characters. A
128-bit encryption contains 26 hexadecimal digits or 13 ASCII characters.
• 64-bit and 40-bit WEP keys use the same encryption method and can
interoperate on wireless networks. This lower level of WEP encryption
uses a 40-bit (10 hexadecimal digits assigned by the user) secret key
and a 24-bit Initialization Vector assigned by the device. 104-bit and
128-bit WEP keys use the same encryption method.
• All wireless clients in a network must have identical WEP keys with the
access point to establish connection. Keep a record of the WEP
encryption keys.