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Profile Support for NICs
You may save your wireless settings here by clicking Save Profile. Please 
choose Save to Disk option when a dialog box opens. Thus, you may save 
your wireless settings to an external file and later on use this file to import 
the settings with supported 3Com Wireless Network Cards.
Encryption
When setting up wireless networks, it is important to remember that with 
encryption disabled, anyone with a Wireless PC can eavesdrop on your 
network. 3Com recommends that you get the network working with 
encryption disabled first and then enable it as the last step. This will 
simplify setting up your network. 
The Router supports the following types of encryption:
WPA/WPA2/Mixed WPA WPA2 — Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a 
subset of the IEEE 802.11i standard. Both WPA and WPA2 use 
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), Message Integrity Check (MIC) 
and IEEE 802.11x. In addition to TKIP, WPA2 also uses Advanced 
Encryption Standard (AES). The mixed mode will let you choose the 
encryption mechanism interchangeably with either TKIP or AES.
WEP — Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a 64 bit or 128 bit 
encryption method with user configurable fixed keys.
WPA+Radius/WPA2+Radius/Mixed WPA WPA2 +Radius features using 
of a RADIUS server with the pre-shared key authentication method. 
(This should only be used when a RADIUS server is connected to the 
Router).
WPA and WPA2 provides a higher level of security, provided by its longer 
key and dynamic changes made to the key over time. 3Com recommends 
that you use WPA with any clients which support it.
If you enable encryption on the Router, you must reconfigure your 
wireless PCs to use exactly the same Encryption Type and Keys otherwise 
the devices will not understand each other. 
The encryption methods used by the Router secure data transmitted 
through wireless communications between the Router and its wireless 
clients. Enabling encryption has no security effect on data transmitted 
through wired (Ethernet) connections or through your connections to the 
Internet.