Dell B1165nfw User Manual page 169

Wireless network setup
Read the license agreement and click Continue.
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Click Agree to agree to the license agreement.
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8 Click Install. All components necessary for machine operations will be
installed.
If you click Customize, you can choose individual components to install.
9 Enter the password and click OK.
10 Select Wireless connection on the Printer Connection Type and click
Continue.
After searching the wireless networks, a list of wireless networks your
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machine has searched appears. Click the Advanced Settings button.
• Enter the wireless Network Name: Enter the SSID name (SSID is case-
sensitive).
• Operation Mode: Select ad hoc.
• Channel: Select the channel (Auto Setting or 2412 MHz to 2467 MHz).
• Authentication: Select an authentication type.
Open System: Authentication is not used, and encryption may or may
not be used, depending on the need for data security.
Shared Key: Authentication is used. A device that has a proper WEP key
can access the network.
• Encryption: Select the encryption (None, WEP64, WEP128).
• Network Password: Enter the encryption Network Password value.
• Confirm Network Password: Confirm the encryption Network
Password value.
• WEP Key Index: If you are using WEP Encryption, select the appropriate
WEP Key Index.
The wireless network security window appears when the ad hoc network
has security setting.
Select Open System or Shared Key for the authentication and click Next.
• WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a security protocol preventing
unauthorized access to your wireless network. WEP encrypts the data
portion of each packet exchanged on a wireless network using a 64-bit
or 128-bit WEP encryption key.
The window showing the wireless network settings appears. Check the
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settings and click Next.
Before entering the IP address for the machine, you must know the
computer's network configuration information. If the computer's network
configuration is set to DHCP, the wireless network setting should also be
DHCP. Likewise, if the computer's network configuration is set to Static, the
wireless network setting should also be Static.
If your computer is set to DHCP and you want to use Static wireless network
setting, you must contact the network administrator to get the static IP
address.
2. Using a Network-Connected Machine
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