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Signal Strength: It shows the received signal strength from the detected wireless device.
Signal Quality: It shows the quality of communication between the wireless LAN card and
the associated network (In Figure 3-4, it mean linksys-11g).
3-1. Configuration
The "Config" Tab contains several fields where operating parameters of the driver can be
viewed or changed.
3-1-1 Available Wireless Networks:
In this field, you can see all available wireless networks. In order to change the
configuration parameters, select a wireless network and then click the "Configure" button,
the following window will pop up. Make your changes and then click "OK" in order to save
your changes.
Figure 3-5. Wireless network properties
SSID: Network name.
WEP:
To prevent unauthorized user to access the data on wireless stations, the WLAN Card
offers a secure data encryption, known as WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). When you
select this item, the target 802.11 device must has the same encryption keys and be
configured to use encryption in order to communicate with each other. To configure your
WEP encryption, please click "Data encryption " and enter a network key.
For 64-bit encryption, enter 10 digitals by Hex.
For 128-bit encryption, enter 26 digitals.
Click "OK" to save these settings.
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