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4.6 Wireless Station Configuration

This section applies to all wireless stations wishing to use the Wireless Portable Router 's

access point, regardless of the operating system that is used on the client.

To use the Wireless Portable Router, each wireless station must have compatible settings, as

following:

Mode

The mode must be set to Infrastructure.

SSID (ESSID)

The network name must match the value used on the Wireless Portable Router.

Note! The SSID is case sensitive.

Open

Shared Key

If there is no security is enabled on the Wireless Portable Router, the security of

each station should be disabled as well. And, you can connect the Wireless

Portable Router without security, but it is NOT recommended.

WEP auto

By default, WEP on the Wireless Portable Router is disabled.

If WEP remains disabled on the Wireless Portable Router, all stations must have

WEP disabled.

If WEP is enabled on the Wireless Portable Router, each station must use the same

settings as the Wireless Portable Router.

WPA-PSK

WPA2-PSK

WPA-PSK

WPA2-PSK

WPA-PSK (TKIP/AES)/ WPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES)/ WPA-RADIUS (TKIP/AES)/ WPA2 -

RADIUS (TKIP/AES): If one of these securities is enabled on the Wireless Portable

Router. To make a connection, each station must use the same algorithms and

pass phrase as the Wireless Portable Router.

WPA

WPA2

WPA WPA2

802.1x

RADIUS Server: RADIUS is an authentication, authorization and accounting client-

server protocol. The client is a Network Access Server that desires to authenticate

its links. The server is a server that has access to a user database with

authentication information. Each station must set up the RADIUS Server’s IP

address, port and passwords that provided by your ISP.

Note:

By default, the Wireless Portable Router will allow 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n connections.