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2) Setting up wireless encryption

RT-N11 provides a set of encryption and authentication methods to

meet the different demands of home, SOHO, and enterprise users.

Before setting up the encryption and authentication for RT-N11,

contact your network administrator for advice.
Click

Wireless -> Interface to open the configuration page.

Note: For 802.11n performance, select 40MHz bandwidth. Channel option depends

your selected bandwidth.

Encryption
The encrytion modes supported by RT-N11 are: Shared key (WEP-64bits/WEP-

128bits), WPA-Personal, WPA2-Personal, WPA-Auto-Personal(TKIP+AES),

WPA-enterprise, WPA2-enterprise, WPA-Auto-Enterprise (TKIP+AES), Radius with

802.1x.
WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. It uses 64bits or 128bits static keys

to encrypt the data for wireless transmission. To set up WEP keys, set

WEP

Encryption to WEP-64bits or WEP-128bits, then manually key in four sets

of

WEP Keys (10 hexadecimal digits for 64-bits key or 26 hexadecimal digits

for 128-bits key). You can also let the system generate the keys by entering a

Passphrase.
TKIP stands for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. TKIP dynamically generates

unique keys to encrypt every data packet in a wireless session.

AES stands

for Advanced Encryption Standard. This solution offers stronger protection and

increases the complexity of wireless encryption.

TKIP+AES is used when both

WPA and WPA2 clients co-exist in the wireless network.
WPA-Personal utilizes a password setup to protect the system from unauthorized

access.

WPA-Enterprise verifies network users through a server.