Linksys WPG12 User Guide - Page 12

Instant WirelessTM Series • WEP - An acronym for Wired Equivalent Privacy, WEP is an encryption method used to protect your wireless communications and prevent unauthorized access to the Presentation Player and/or your network. In order to utilize WEP encryption, click the radio button next to Enable. Next, click the WEP Key Setting button to further define your encryption settings, shown in Figure 5-3. All wireless devices communicating with the Presentation Player must use the same WEP encryption settings. When WEP is enabled, there will be a slight degradation in performance when presenting from a remote wireless computer. Presentation Player 3. The Password tab, as shown in Figure 5-4, is where you change your password and restore the factory default settings for the Presentation Player. Figure 5-3 • WEP Encryption - Select 64 Bit or 128 Bit. Selecting the higher wireless security of 128 Bit could slow your presentation. • Passphrase - There are two ways to create WEP Encryption keys. The first method is to enter a Passphrase with a maximum of 16 Hexadecimal characters (letters "A"-"F" and the numbers "0"-"9") and click the Generate button. This will generate WEP Encryption keys based upon that passphrase. A second method is to manually enter a 10digit key for 64-bit or a 26-digit key for 128-bit WEP Encryption into the field for Key 1. Click the Apply button. Click the Clear button to erase anything you have entered in error. Click the Close button to close the screen. 16 Figure 5-4 Choose an alphnumeric password between 4 and 16 characters and without spaces. Enter the password into the Enter New Password field, then repeat it in the Re-enter to Confirm field. To clear all of the settings on the Presentation Player and restore them to the factory default settings, click the Yes button. Click the Apply button. 17