Hawking HWUG1, User Manual

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An integrated wireless and wireless and wired LAN is called an Infrastructure configuration. 

Infrastructure is applicable to enterprise scale for wireless access to central database, or wireless 

application for mobile workers. 

6.  What is BSS ID

？

A specific Ad hoc LAN is called a Basic Service Set (BSS). Computers in a BSS must be configured 

with the same BSS ID. 

7.  What is WEP

？

WEP is Wired Equivalent Privacy, a data privacy mechanism based on a 40 bit shared key algorithm, 

as described in the IEEE 802 .11 standard. 

8.  What is TKIP? 

TKIP is a quick-fix method to quickly overcome the inherent weaknesses in WEP security, especially 

the reuse of encryption keys. TKIP is involved in the IEEE 802.11i WLAN security standard, and the 

specification might be officially released by early 2003. 

9. What 

is 

AES? 

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), a chip-based security, has been developed to ensure the 

highest degree of security and authenticity for digital information, wherever and however 

communicated or stored, while making more efficient use of hardware and/or software than previous 

encryption standards. It is also included in IEEE 802.11i standard. Compare with AES, TKIP is a 

temporary protocol for replacing WEP security until manufacturers implement AES at the hardware 

level. 

10.  Can Wireless products support printer sharing?   

Wireless products perform the same function as LAN products. Therefore, Wireless products can 

work with Netware, Windows 2000, or other LAN operating systems to support printer or file sharing. 

11.  Would the information be intercepted while transmitting on air? 

WLAN features two-fold protection in security. On the hardware side, as with Direct Sequence 

Spread Spectrum technology, it has the inherent security feature of scrambling. On the software side, 

WLAN series offer the encryption function (WEP) to enhance security and Access Control. Users can 

set it up depending upon their needs. 

12.  What is DSSS

？

What is FHSS

？

And what are their differences? 

Frequency-hopping spread-spectrum (FHSS) uses a narrowband carrier that changes frequency in a 

pattern that is known to both transmitter and receiver. Properly synchronized, the net effect is to 

maintain a single logical channel. To an unintended receiver, FHSS appears to be short-duration 

impulse noise. Direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) generates a redundant bit pattern for each 

bit to be transmitted. This bit pattern is called a chip (or chipping code). The longer the chip is, the 

greater the probability that the original data can be recovered. Even if one or more bits in the chip are 

damaged during transmission, statistical techniques embedded in the radio can recover the original 

data without-the need for retransmission. To an unintended receiver, DSSS appears as low power