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Apply Changes
Whenever users want to enable/disable WPS or change AP’s PIN,
they need to apply this button to commit changes.
Reset
It restores the original values of “Self-PIN Number” and “Client PIN
Number”.
Client PIN Number
It is only used when users want their station to join AP’s network.
The length of PIN is limited to four or eight numeric digits. If users
enter eight digit PIN with checksum error, there will be a warning
message popping up.
If users insist on this PIN, AP will take it.
Introduction of WPS
Although home Wi-Fi networks have become more and more
popular, users still have trouble with the initial set up of network.
This obstacle forces users to use the open security and
increases the risk of eavesdropping. Therefore, WPS is
designed to ease set up of security-enabled Wi-Fi networks and
subsequently network management (Wi-Fi Protected Setup
Specification 1.0h.pdf, p. 8).
The largest difference between WPS-enabled devices and
legacy devices is that users do not need the knowledge about
ESSID, channel and security settings, but they could still surf in
a security-enabled Wi-Fi network. For examples, in the initial
network set up, if users want to use the PIN configuration, the
only thing they need to do is entering the device PIN into
registrar, starting the PIN method on that device and simply wait
until the device joins the network. After the PIN method is
started on both sides, a registration protocol will be initiated
between the registrar and the enrollee. Typically, a registrar
could be an access point or other device that is capable of
managing the network. An enrollee could be an access point or
a station that will join the network. After the registration protocol
has been done, the enrollee will receive ESSID and security
settings from the registrar and then join the network. In other
words; if a station attempts to join a network managed by an
access point with built-in internal registrar, users will need to
enter station’s PIN into the web page of that access point. If the
device PIN is correct and valid and users start PIN on station,
the access point and the station will automatically exchange the
encrypted information of the network settings under the
management of AP’s internal registrar. The station then uses
this information to perform authentication algorithm, join the
secure network, and transmit data with the encryption algorithm.
More details will be demonstrated in the following sections.
Supported WPS features
Currently, Wireless Gateway supports WPS features for
AP
mode
,
AP+WDS mode
,
Infrastructure-Client mode
, and the
wireless root interface of Universal Repeater mode
.
Other modes such as
WDS mode
,
Infrastructure-Adhoc
mode
, and the
wireless virtual interface of Universal
Repeater mode
are not implemented with WPS features.
Summary of Contents for WRC5000N
Page 15: ...WELL WRC500N WRC5010N WRC5010NU 15 3 Double click on Internet Protocol TCP IP ...
Page 25: ...WELL WRC500N WRC5010N WRC5010NU 25 4 Double click on Internet Protocol Version 4 TCP IPv4 ...
Page 30: ...WELL WRC500N WRC5010N WRC5010NU 30 3 Click on the ratio of Gateway and then click on Next ...
Page 35: ...WELL WRC500N WRC5010N WRC5010NU 35 2 Double click Network Connections ...
Page 75: ...WELL WRC500N WRC5010N WRC5010NU 75 Figure 8 Wireless Network page ...
Page 113: ...WELL WRC500N WRC5010N WRC5010NU 113 7 Click on Turn on network discovery and file sharing ...
Page 115: ...WELL WRC500N WRC5010N WRC5010NU 115 9 AP s icon will show up Double click on it ...
Page 117: ...WELL WRC500N WRC5010N WRC5010NU 117 11 Enter AP s Self PIN Number and click next ...
Page 119: ...WELL WRC500N WRC5010N WRC5010NU 119 13 Enter the Passphrase and then click Next ...
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