ZyXEL Communications p-2612HNU-FX User Manual

Chapter 7 Wireless LAN

P-2612HNU-Fx User’s Guide

the wireless stations can associate with any AP or peer computer and listen to any 
transmitted data that is not encrypted.

Shared key mode involves a shared secret key to authenticate the wireless station 
to the AP or peer computer. This requires you to enable the wireless LAN security 
and use same settings on both the wireless station and the AP or peer computer. 
In order to configure and enable WEP encryption, click Network > Wireless LAN 
> Security. Select Static WEP or Shared WEP from the Security Mode list.

Figure 37   Network > Wireless LAN > Security: Static WEP/Shared WEP

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

Table 26   Network > Wireless LAN > Security: Static WEP/Shared WEP

SSID

Select the SSID security profile you want to configure. 

Security 
Mode

Choose Static WEP or Shared WEP from the drop-down list box.

• Select Static WEP to have the ZyXEL Device allow association with 

wireless clients that use Open System mode. Data transfer is encrypted 

as long as the wireless client has the correct WEP key for encryption. 

The ZyXEL Device authenticates wireless clients using Shared Key 

mode that have the correct WEP key.

• Select Shared WEP to have the ZyXEL Device authenticate only those 

wireless clients that use Shared Key mode and have the correct WEP 

key. 

WEP Keys

Enter a WEP key that will be used to encrypt data. Both the ZyXEL Device 
and the wireless stations must use the same WEP key for data 
transmission.

If you want to manually set the WEP key, enter any 5 or 13 characters 
(ASCII string) or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") for a 64-
bit or 128-bit WEP key respectively.

Apply

Click this to save your changes back to the ZyXEL Device.

Reset

Click this to reload the previous configuration for this screen.