Wireless Security; Disable Wireless Security; Wep - Wired Equivalent Privacy - NetComm NP740n User Manual

2-7-3 Wireless Security

It's very important to set wireless security settings properly! If you don't, hackers and malicious users can
reach your network and valuable data without your consent and this will cause serious security problems.
To set wireless security settings, Please click 'Wireless' menu on the left of web management interface, then
click 'Security Settings', then follow the following instructions to set wireless security settings:
Please select an encryption method from 'Encryption' dropdown menu, there are four options:

2-7-3-1 Disable wireless security

When you select this mode, data encryption is disabled, and every wireless device in proximity will be able to
connect your wireless router if no other security measure is enabled (like MAC address access control - see
section 2-7-4, or disable ESSID broadcast).
Only use this option when you really want to allow everyone to use your wireless router, and you don't care if
there's someone reads the data you transfer over network without your consent.

2-7-3-2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy

When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption, and the following setup menu will be
shown on your web browser:
Here are descriptions of every setup items:
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
length of WEP key is 10 characters.
Default Tx Key: You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you can decide which key is being used by default here. If
you don't know which one you should use, select 'Key 1'.
Encryption Key
Input WEP key characters here, the number of characters must be the same as the number displayed
1 to 4 (5-8):
at 'Key Format' field. You can use any alphanumerical characters (0-9, a-z, and A-Z) if you select
'ASCII' key format, and if you select 'Hex' as key format, you can use characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You
must enter at least one encryption key here, and if you entered multiple WEP keys, they should not be
same with each other.
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