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4 setting up wireless security, Network authentication – Asus II E2949 User Manual

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Setting up wireless security

To protect your wireless network, you need to setup a security mechanism on your

WiFi-AP Solo. Under AP mode, only Open, Shared, and WPA-PSK are supported.

Under Station mode, all the security modes listed below are supported.

Network authentication

Network authentication uses certain types of mechanism to identify authenticated wireless

clients. WiFi-AP Solo 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.

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.

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