Wireless Security Overview - NETGEAR WG511U Double 108 Mbps Wireless PC Card WG511U WG511U User Manual

User's Manual for the NETGEAR Double 108 Mbps Wireless PC Card 32-bit CardBus WG511U
The WG511U user can use five channels in turbo mode.
Turbo Mode ON
Channel
42
50
58
152
160
The available channels supported by the wireless products in various countries are different.

Wireless Security Overview

Wireless technology is evolving rapidly to accommodate the need for stronger security. The
following security schemes are supported in Netgear products:
• WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy is an existing, widely implemented and supported, data encryption
protocol for 802.11 wireless networks. All wireless nodes on the network are configured with
a static 64-bit or 128-bit Shared Key for data encryption but authentication is optional.
• WPA
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a new specification of standards-based, interoperable
security enhancements that increase the level of data protection and access control for wireless
networks. WPA requires authentication and features strong data encryption that includes
dynamic key generation. WPA uses the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) via WPA
enables wireless access points using a modified version of the 802.1x protocols to access
RADIUS and certificate servers which enable various authentication schemes such as
Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Protected EAP (PEAP).
• WPA-PSK
WPA-Pre-Shared Key (WPA-PSK) performs authentication and encryption with a only a
wireless access point based on a preshared key without needing to access RADIUS or
certificate servers via the 802.1x protocols.
B-6
Frequency
5.21 GHz
5.25 GHz
5.29 GHz
5.76 GHz
5.8 GHz
August 2004
Wireless Networking Basics