The
256-Bit setting can only be used on connections to devices in the same product
family as your adapter.
Auth. Mode
The Auth. Mode (Authentication Mode) control is the first control in the Security panel.
It is a drop-down list offering two settings:
Open, Shared, and Auto.
The setting of this control is ignored when WEP is disabled.
A machine must request permission to join a wireless network. On some networks where
WEP is enabled, a request to join must be WEP-encrypted; on others, it must not.
In Open Authentication mode, requests to join the network are never WEP-encrypted. In
Shared Authentication mode, all requests to join must be WEP-encrypted. The default
setting is
Auto Mode.
Profile Name
The Profile Name control is a text input box for giving the profile a name. Each profile
must have a unique name. A profile name can be any length, but it cannot contain spaces.
The case of any letters you type is preserved. When you are editing an existing profile,
the name appears on a gray background here and cannot be edited.
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