ZyXEL Communications G-302 User Manual

ZyXEL G-302 v3 User’s Guide

Chapter 3 ZyXEL Utility Configuration

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Figure 15   Security Settings: WEP  

The following table describes the labels in this screen.  

Table 6   Security Settings: WEP 

WEP

Select 64 Bits or 128 Bits to activate WEP encryption and then fill in the related 

fields.

Authentication 

Type

Select an authentication type. Choices are Open and Shared. Refer to 

on page 29 

for more information.

Pass Phrase

Enter a passphrase of up to 63 case-sensitive printable characters. As you enter 

the passphrase, the G-302 v3 automatically generates four different WEP keys 

and displays it in the key field below. Refer to 

 for more 

information.
At the time of writing, you cannot use passphrase to generate 152-bit WEP keys.

Transmit Key

Select a default WEP key to use for data encryption. The key displays in the field 

below.

Key x (where x is a 

number between 1 

and 4)

Select this option if you want to manually enter the WEP keys. Enter the WEP key 

in the field provided.
If you select 64 Bits in the WEP field.

Enter either 10 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” (for 

example, 11AA22BB33) for HEX key type.
or
Enter 5 ASCII characters (case sensitive) ranging from “a-z”, “A-Z” and “0-9” 

(for example, MyKey) for ASCII key type. 

If you select 128 Bits in the WEP field,

Enter either 26 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9” (for 

example, 00112233445566778899AABBCC) for HEX key type
or
Enter 13 ASCII characters (case sensitive) ranging from “a-z”, “A-Z” and “0-9” 

(for example, MyKey12345678) for ASCII key type.

Note: The values for the WEP keys must be set up exactly the 

same on all wireless devices in the same wireless LAN.

ASCII WEP keys are case sensitive.

Back

Click Back to go to the Site Survey screen to select and connect to other network.