Multi-Function Gigabit Wireless-N Client Bridge
Version 1.0
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3.2.4.5.4.3 WPA
(Wi-Fi
Protected Access) / Pre-shared
Key
Click on the
Security
link under the
Wireless
drop-down menu.
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is designed to improve upon the security features of
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). The technology is designed to work with existing
Wi-Fi products that have been enabled with WEP. WPA provides improved data
encryption through the Temporal Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the keys
using a hashing algorithm and by adding an integrity checking feature which makes
sure that keys haven’t been tampered with.
ESSID Selection
: As this device supports multiple SSIDs, it is possible to configure
a different security mode for each SSID (profile). Select an SSID from the drop-down
list.
Broadcast SSID
: Select
Enable
or
Disable
from the drop-down list. This is the SSID
broadcast feature.
When this option is set to Enable, your wireless network name is
broadcast to anyone within the range of your signal
. If you're not using encryption then
they could connect to your network. When this is disabled, you must enter the
Wireless Network Name (SSID) on the client manually to connect to the network.
WMM
: Choose to
Enable
or
Disable
WMM. This is the Quality of Service (QoS)
feature for prioritizing voice and video applications. This option can be further
configured in
WMM
under the
Wireless
drop-down menu.
Encryption
: Select
WPA pre-shared key
from the drop-down list.
WPA Type
: Select TKIP, AES, or WPA2 Mixed. 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. Note that, if the bridge uses the
AES option, the bridge can associate with the access point only if the access point is
also set to use only AES.
Pre-shared Key Type:
: The Key Type can be
passphrase
or
Hex
format.
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
