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2-7-2 WEP

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a common encryption mode, it‟s safe

enough for home and personal use. But if you need higher level of

security, please consider using WPA encryption (see next Section).

However, some wireless clients don‟t support WPA, but only support

WEP, so WEP is still a good choice for you if you have such kind of

client in your network environment.

When you select „WEP‟ as encryption type, the following messages will

be displayed:

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Key Length

There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and

128-bit. Using „128-bit‟ is safer than ‟64-bit‟, but

will reduce some data transfer performance.

Key Format

There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex.

When you select a key format, the number of

characters of key will be displayed. For example, if

you select ‟64-bit‟ as key length, and „Hex‟ as key

format, you‟ll see the message at the right of „Key

Format‟ is „Hex (10 characters), which means the

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