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Chapter 3 Configuring the DOCSIS Residential Gateway
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Field Name
Description
Network
Authentication
Network Authentication allows only authorized users to gain access
to your wireless network. Only users with an authorized user name,
password, or pre-shared key are allowed access to the wireless
network.
Select from the following Network Authentication protocols:
Primary Network
WPA
WPA-PSK
WPA2
WPA2-PSK
Note:
Network Authentication restricts access to your wireless
network to only authorized computers or users. Authentication
does not protect the data you send over the wireless network
connection. You must enable encryption to protect data that is
transmitted over your wireless network.
WPA/WPA2
Encryption
Allows you to select a WPA/WPA2 security method. The factory
default security is WPA-PSK.
TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)
AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) - factory default
TKIP-AES
WPA Pre-Shared Key
Allows you to set a WPA Pre-Shared key. Enter a text string in this
field. The text string or phrase is used to generate a unique set of
encryption keys for your network. Use this string to set up wireless
devices in your network.
The factory default security key is the 9-digit serial number of the
gateway. For example: 20167792. See
What Types of Service
Accounts Do I Need?
(on page 8) for the location of the serial
number on the label.
The PSK can be either a text string or a 64 character hexadecimal
number.
The text string must be an ASCII character string with a
minimum of 8 characters but no more than 63.
Note:
Not all wireless adapter devices support PSK. For these
devices, you must enter the encryption keys exactly as they appear
in the in wireless gateway fields in the preceding illustration of the
Setup Wireless Security page.