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According to the availability of channels in the country codes, the operator can select
which channels to be scanned when scanning for an Access Point. Then the scanned
channels will appear on the Site Survey.
Wireless Security
All the wireless security settings are set under this section.
The operation of the Keys is the same for ALL the Wireless modes.
WPA or WPA2 Authentication
Fig 2.7 WPA (Access Point/Access Point WDS/Repeater WDS)
WPA PSK
PSK (Default)
– WPA or WPA2 with Pre-shared Key method.
Cipher Type
TKIP
- Temporal Key Integrity Protocol which uses RC4 encryption algorithm.
AES
- Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.
AUTO (Default)
– Automatically select between both algorithms.
Preshared Key
This option is available when
WPA
or
WPA2
, with
PSK
selected.
The pre-shared key is an alpha-numeric password between 8 and 63 characters long.
*** Important:
802.11n network using WPA authentication should use AES cipher type
for connection. Only AES allows highest transmission speed and
throughput operation.
Using TKIP cipher type device will limit maximum transmission speed of
up to 54Mbps only.
