Asus DSL-N13 User Manual

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DSL-N13 Wireless ADSL 2/2+ Modem Router User Manual

WPA: WPA stands for WiFi-Protected Access. WPA provides two security

modes for Home/SOHO user and enterprise network. The former

solution adopts Pre-Shared Key for authentication, and the later uses the

existing 802.1X RADIUS server in the enterprise network to process the

authentication requests.

WPA - PSK: WPA-PSK (Pre-Shared Key) is the solution for home and SOHO users

who have no 802.11X authentication server within the LAN. To setup

WPA-PSK, you need to input a passphrase and let the system generate

the key. Combination of letters, numbers and non-alphnumeric charecters

is recommended for ensuring security.

Encryption

Encryption is used to convert plain text data into unreadable codes with certain type of

algorithm before capsulation for wireless transmission. DSL-N13 supports the following

encryption methods:
WEP:

WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. It uses 64 or 128-bit static

keys. You can let the system generate the WEP keys by inputting a

Passphrase.

TKIP:

Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) dynamically generates unique

keys to encypt every data packet in a wireless session.

AES:

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a dependable encryption

adopted in WPA2 or IEEE802.11i standard. It offers stronger protection

and greatly increases the complexity of wireless encryption.

TKIP + AES: For a network where WPA clients (using TKIP encryption) and WPA2

clients (using AES encryption) co-exit. Select this option to enable both.

How to setup wireless security

Open

1. Click Wireless -> Security in the left side menu to open the configuration page.
2. Select Open in the Network Authentication field to disable authentication mechanism.