Adding A New Favorite Manually Or Creating An Ad Hoc Network - Hercules HWDB-600 Manual

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4.7.3. Adding a new Favorite manually or creating an Ad hoc
To create a Favorite (Infrastructure or Ad hoc network) specifically for your home or office, for example, click
the New botton.
The manual creation of a new Favorite or an Ad hoc network includes the following steps:
network
Network tab (accessible after clicking the
Modify button)
Network name (SSID): enter the SSID (Service
Set Identifier), which is to say the unique name
shared by clients and the access point in your
wireless network.
Network type: Infrastructure or Ad hoc.
RF channel (Ad hoc only): select the RF channel
from a list of available channels (1 to 13), channel 1
being the default channel.
Automatic connection: tick this box to have the
client automatically connect to this network.
Security tab (accessible after clicking the
Modify button)
Secure: the network may be unsecured (No) or
secure (Yes); in this case, you must select the
security type and enter an encryption key.
Security type: WEP, WEP (Shared), WPA-PSK
(TKIP), WPA-PSK (AES), WPA2-PSK (TKIP) or
WPA2-PSK (AES).
Security Key: enter an encryption key of 10 or 26
hexadecimal characters for a WEP key, or from 8 to
64 characters for a WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK key.
A hexadecimal key is composed of numbers 0 to 9
and letters A to F (example: A123BCD45E).
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