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4.6.4

WPA (Personal)

WPA-Personal is one variant of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
– security standards published by the Wi-Fi Alliance. The WPA
Mode further refines the variant that the router should employ.
The WPA-Personal option uses Wi-Fi Protected Access with a
Pre-Shared Key (PSK).

WPA Mode.

WPA is the older standard; select this option if the

clients that will be used with the router only support the older
standard. WPA2 is the newer implementation of the stronger
IEEE 802.11i security standard. With the WPA2

option, the

router tries WPA2 first, but falls back to WPA if the client only
supports WPA. With the WPA2 Only

option, the router

associates only with clients that also support WPA2 security.

Cipher Type.

The encryption algorithm used to secure the data

communication. TKIP

(Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)

provides per-packet key generation and is based on WEP. AES

(Advanced Encryption Standard) is a very secure block based
encryption. With the TKIP and AES

option, the router

negotiates the cipher type with the client, and uses AES when
available.

Group Key Update Interval.

The amount of time before the

group key used for broadcast and multicast data is changed.

Pre-Shared Key.

The key is entered as a pass-phrase of up to

63 alphanumeric characters in ASCII (American Standard Code
for Information Interchange) format at both ends of the wireless
connection. It cannot be shorter than eight characters, although for proper security it needs to be of ample length and should not be a commonly
known phrase. This phrase is used to generate session keys that are unique for each wireless client.

NOTE: Be sure to write down the Pre-Shared Key and keep it in a safe place.