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Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
WPA Unicast Cipher 
Suite  Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. 
Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 
(AES), and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of 
them, but you have to make sure your wireless 
client support the cipher you selected. 
Pre-shared Key 
Format Select the type of pre-shared key, you 
can select Passphrase (8 or more 
alphanumerical characters, up to 63), or Hex 
(64 characters of 0-9, and a-f). 
Pre-shared Key Please input the WPA passphrase here. 
It’s not recommended to use a word that can 
be found in a dictionary due to security 
reason. 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in 
all fields. If you click ‘Apply’, the following messages will appear: 
 
 
 
You can click ‘Continue’ to back to previous page and continue setting, or 
click ‘Apply’ to restart the broadband router so the changes will take 
effect. 
  
						

							 
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3-4-2 Security Settings 
 
This wireless router supports two types of encryption: WEP (Wired 
Equivalent Privacy) and WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access): 
 
 
 
Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, 
and corresponding setting will appear: 
 
Disabled 
 
Encryption is disabled. It’s not recommended to disable encryption 
because other people may use certain wireless scanner to copy the data 
transferred over air. 
  
						

							 
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WEP 
 
Select WEP to enable WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption: 
 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Key Length  There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit 
and 128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer 
than ’64-bit’, but will reduce some data 
transfer performance. 
Key Format    There are two types of key format: ASCII and 
Hex. When you select a key format, the number 
of characters of key will be displayed. For 
example, if you select ’64-bit’ as key length, 
and ‘Hex’ as key format, you’ll see the message 
at the right of ‘Key Format’ is ‘Hex (10 
characters), which means the length of WEP 
key is 10 characters. 
Default Tx Key  You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you 
can decide which key is being used by default 
here. If you don’t know which one you should 
use, select ‘Key 1’. 
Encryption Key 1 to 4    Input WEP key characters here, the number of 
characters must be the same as the number  
						

							 
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displayed at ‘Key Format’ field. You can use 
any alphanumerical characters (0-9, a-z, and 
A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key format, and if 
you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can use 
characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at 
least one encryption key here, and if you 
entered multiple WEP keys, they should not be 
same with each other. 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in 
all fields. If you click ‘Apply’, the following messages will appear: 
 
 
 
You can click ‘Continue’ to back to previous page and continue setting, or 
click ‘Apply’ to restart the broadband router so the changes will take 
effect. 
 
 
WPA pre-shared key 
 
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is also an encryption method and is safer 
than WEP. It’s recommended to use WPA instead of WEP when you need 
to use encryption to protect your data security. 
 
  
						

							 
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Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
WPA Unicast Cipher 
Suite  Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. 
Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 
(AES), and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of 
them, but you have to make sure your wireless 
client support the cipher you selected. 
Pre-shared Key 
Format Select the type of pre-shared key, you 
can select Passphrase (8 or more 
alphanumerical characters, up to 63), or Hex 
(64 characters of 0-9, and a-f). 
Pre-shared Key Please input the WPA passphrase here. 
It’s not recommended to use a word that can 
be found in a dictionary due to security 
reason. 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in 
all fields. If you click ‘Apply’, the following messages will appear: 
 
 
 
You can click ‘Continue’ to back to previous page and continue setting, or 
click ‘Apply’ to restart the broadband router so the changes will take 
effect. 
 
 
WPA RADIUS 
 
If you have RADIUS authentication server on your local network, you 
can authenticate the wireless clients by RADIUS server’s user database. 
Only authenticated clients can establish wireless connection with this 
broadband router. 
  
						

							 
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Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
WPA Unicast Cipher 
Suite  Please select a type of WPA cipher suite. 
Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 
(AES), and WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of 
them, but you have to make sure your wireless 
client support the cipher you selected. 
RADIUS Server IP 
address Input the IP address of RADIUS authentication 
server here. 
RADIUS Server Port Input the port number of RADIUS 
authentication server here. Most of RADIUS 
server will use port number 1812 and you can 
keep using default value. 
RADIUS Server 
Password Input the password of RADIUS authentication 
server here. 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes, or click ‘Reset’ to clear the texts in 
all fields. If you click ‘Apply’, the following messages will appear: 
 
 
 
You can click ‘Continue’ to back to previous page and continue setting, or 
click ‘Apply’ to restart the broadband router so the changes will take 
effect.  
						

							 
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3-4-3 MAC Address Filtering 
 
This function will help you to prevent unauthorized users from 
connecting to your wireless router; only those wireless devices who have 
the MAC address you assigned here can gain access to your wireless 
router. You can use this function with other security measures described 
in previous section, to create a safer wireless environment. Up to 20 
MAC addresses can be assigned.   
 
 
 
To enable MAC address filtering, please check ‘Enable Wireless Access 
Control’ box in this page, the descriptions of other setting items are listed 
as follow: 
 
Item Name Description 
MAC address  Input the MAC address you wish to add to the 
MAC address to the table. 
Comment  You can input any text here as the comment of 
this MAC address, like ‘ROOM 2A Computer’ 
or anything. You can input up to 16 
alphanumerical characters here. This is 
optional and you can leave it blank, however, 
it’s recommended to use this field to write a 
comment for every MAC addresses as a 
memory aid. 
Add  Click ‘Add’ button to add the MAC address and 
associated comment to the MAC address 
filtering table. 
Clear  Click ‘Clear’ to remove the value you inputted 
in MAC address and comment field. 
  
						

							 
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All MAC address entries will be listed in this page: 
  
 
 
To delete one or more entries listed here, please check the box of the 
mapping entry (under ‘Select’), and click ‘Delete Selected’ button.   
 
If you wish to delete all mapping entries, click ‘Delete All’ button. To 
deselect all checked boxes, click ‘Reset’ button. 
 
When you finished with the settings in this page, you can click ‘Apply’ 
button to save changes you made in this page, or you can click ‘Cancel’ 
to discard changes. After you click ‘Apply’ button, you’ll see the 
following messages: 
 
 
 
Please click ‘Apply’ to save changes you made and restart the broadband 
router, this requires about 30 seconds and the broadband router will stop 
responding (this is normal and is not malfunction). You can reconnect to 
this broadband router and continue on other settings later.  
						

							 
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3-4-4 WPS 
 
WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) provides a convenient way to establish the 
connection between this broadband router and wireless clients. Any 
WPS-compatible wireless clients can establish secure connection with 
this broadband router with simple push-button type configuration or 
PinCode type configuration. 
 
 
Here are descriptions of every setup items: 
 
Item Name Description 
Enable WPS  Check this box to enable WPS function, 
uncheck it to disable WPS. 
WPS Status  If the wireless security (encryption) function of 
this wireless router is properly set, you’ll see 
‘Configured’ message here. If wireless security 
function has not been set, you’ll see 
‘unConfigured’. 
Self PIN code  This is the WPS PIN code of this wireless 
router. This code is useful when you need to 
build wireless connection by WPS with other 
WPS-enabled wireless devices. 
SSID  The SSID of this wireless router will be 
displayed here. 
Authentication Mode  The wireless security authentication mode of  
						

							 
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this wireless router will be displayed here. 
Passphrase Key  The WPA passphrase will be displayed as 
asterisk here. 
Config Mode  Select the WPS configuration role of this 
broadband router.   
 
Registrar: This broadband router will act as 
WPS registrar and wait for wireless clients to 
send WPS configuration request. 
 
Enrollee: This broadband router will act as 
WPS enrollee and send WPS configuration 
request to other WPS registrar. 
Configure via Push 
Button Click ‘Start PBC’ to start Push-Button type 
WPS configuration (PBC). Please push the 
WPS push-button on other WPS-compatible 
network devices to begin WPS configuration. 
 
You can also push the ‘WPS / Reset’ button 
located at the back of this broadband router to 
start PBC without using web configuration 
interface. 
Configure via Client 
PinCode Please input the PinCode displayed at the 
configuration software of WPS-enabled 
wireless client, and click ‘Start PIN’ to 
establish connection with the wireless client.