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62 Microsoft Broadband Networking Base Station User's Guide
5. If you want to decrease the data rate from Automatic, click one
of the other options available in the Data rate drop-down list
box.
6. To apply these settings, click Apply.
Security Settings
The Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station is configured to
protect your network from the most common hacker attacks and
other security risks. If necessary, you can change the default base
station settings or establish special services from the Security
section of the Base Station Management Tool.
The following sections describe the security features of the base
station and how to customize them.
Be aware that changing security settings may affect whether the
computers on your LAN are able to connect to the LAN and
Internet. You should not change the default security settings unless
you are absolutely clear about your objective in doing so.
Wireless Security (WEP)
The Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station uses wireless
security (WEP) to prevent unauthorized users from accessing data
that is being transmitted over the network. From the Base Station
Management Tool, you can:
• Enable wireless encryption.
• Change the network key or modify the encryption settings that
you established in the Setup Wizard.
• Disable wireless encryption.
When data is encrypted, it is rendered unreadable by a network
key—called a WEP key—before being transmitted between wireless
nodes. The data is readable only by computers that have the
network key to decrypt the data.
The WEP key that you establish is stored with all of your network
settings on each networked computer so that data can be
encrypted and decrypted as it is transmitted over the network. If
you change the WEP key that the base station uses, you must
ensure that each computer on your wireless network uses the
same WEP key so that it can communicate with the base station.
For information about how to change the WEP key on each
computer, see the Broadband Network Utility Help.
When you enable wireless encryption, you can choose between 64-
bit or 128-bit encryption. The number defines the strength of the
data encryption. The higher the number, the more difficult the data
is to decrypt.
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