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There are 4 security setting ways for preventing intruders
from Wireless LAN.
• ESSID (Extended Service Set IDentifier)
ESSID (or SSID) is the name of a wireless local area network
(WLAN). All wireless devices on a WLAN must employ the
same ESSID in order to communicate with each other. You
may set either manually, by entering the SSID into the cli-
ent network settings, or automatically, by leaving the SSID
unspecified or blank. Some newer wireless access points
disable the automatic SSID broadcast feature in an attempt
to improve network security.
• WEP (Wireless Encryption Protocol)
WEP is available in 64-bit, or in 128-bit encryption modes.
As 128-bit encryption provides a longer algorithm that
takes longer to decode, it can provide better security than
basic 64-bit encryption. Recommended enable this func-
tion to protect the data stream.
• WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access)
Wi-Fi Protected Access which authorizes and identifies
users based on a secret key that changes automatically at
regular intervals. WPA uses TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity
Protocol) to change the temporal key every 10,000 packets
(a packet is a kind of message transmitted over a network.)
This ensures much greater security than the standard WEP
security. (By contrast, the previous WEP encryption imple-
mentations required the keys to be changed manually.)
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Security Configuration