ZyXEL Communications P-2302 User Manual

 Chapter 5 Wireless LAN

P-2302HWUDL-P1 Series User’s Guide

Figure 39   Wireless: Static WEP Encryption

The following table describes the wireless LAN security labels in this screen.

In order to configure and enable WPA-PSK authentication; click Network > Wireless LAN to 
display the General screen. Select WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK from the Security Mode list.

Table 32   Wireless: Static WEP Encryption

Security Mode

Choose Static WEP from the drop-down list box.

Passphrase

Enter a Passphrase (up to 32 printable characters) and clicking Generate. The 

ZyXEL Device automatically generates a WEP key.

WEP 

Encryption

Select 64-bit WEP, 128-bit WEP or 256-bit WEP to specify data encryption.

Authentication 

Method

This field specifies whether the wireless clients have to provide the WEP key to login 

to the wireless client. Keep this setting at Auto or Open System unless you want to 

force a key verification before communication between the wireless client and the 

ZyXEL Device occurs. Select Shared Key to force the clients to provide the WEP key 

prior to communication.

Key 1 - Key 4

The WEP key is used to encrypt data. Both the ZyXEL Device and the wireless 

stations must use the same WEP key for data transmission.
You can set 4 different keys and make one of the keys active at a time.
If you want to manually set the WEP key, enter any 5, 13 or 29 characters (ASCII 

string) or 10, 26 or 58 hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") for a 64-bit, 128-bit or 

256-bit WEP key respectively.