Asus DSL-N13 - Manual (Page 23)

DSL-N13 Wireless ADSL 2/2+ Modem Router User Manual
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Wireless settings
This chaper describes how to configure other wireless features of your ASUS DSL-N13
ADSL Wireless Router.
Setting up SSID
SSID stands for Service Set Identifier, also known as the name of a wireless network.
To connect a wireless router, or to form a wireless bridge system, all wireless routers or
APs or clients must have the same SSID.To setup SSID:
1. Click Wireless -> Basic in the left side menu to open the configuration page.
2. Select Enable Wireless checkbox.
3. You can hide DSL-N13 from wireless scanning by selecting Hide Access Point,
but wireless clients still can connect to DSL-N13 by specifying correct SSID.
4. Define the SSID for DSL-N13. The default SSID is Default.
5. Press Save/Apply to save and activate the settings.
Setting up wireless security
To protect your wireless network, you need to setup a security mechanism at both
DSL-N13 and the wireless clients.
Network authentication
Network authentication uses certain types of mechanism to identify authenticated
wireless clients. DSL-N13 supports the following authentication methods:
Open: This option disables authentication protection for your wireless network.
Under the Open mode, any IEEE802.11b/g wireless client can connect to
your wireless network.
Shared: Shared means using the same WEP keys for authentication and encryption.
802.1X: 802.1X uses RADIUS (Remote Access Dial-Up User Service) server
to authenticate wireless clients with a user name and password. It can
authenticate user with different levels of access right.