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Wireless Access Point HNW150AP
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Field Description
Push Button
Configuration
Clicking this button will invoke the PBC method of WPS. It is only
used when AP acts as a registrar.
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 SSID, 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 SSID 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.
If those unsupported modes are enforced by users, WPS will be disabled . Under the configuration of
every WPS-supported mode, Wireless Gateway has Push Button method and PIN method . For each
method, Wireless Gateway offers different security levels included in network credential, such as open
security, WEP 64 bits, WEP 128 bits, WPA-Personal TKIP, WPA-Personal AES, WPA2-Personal TKIP,
and WPA2-Personal AES. Users could choose either one of the methods at their convenience.