Wpa Wireless Security - NETGEAR WAG302 Reference Manual

Prosafe dual band wireless access point
Hide thumbs Also See for WAG302:
Table of Contents

Advertisement

Reference Manual for the NETGEAR ProSafe Dual Band Wireless Access Point WAG302
The WAG302 user can use five channels in turbo mode.
Table B-4:
802.11a Turbo Mode Off Radio Frequency Channels (Turbo Mode ON)
Channel
42
50
58
152
160
The available channels supported by the wireless products in various countries are different.

WPA Wireless Security

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a specification of standards-based, interoperable security
enhancements that increase the level of data protection and access control for existing and future
wireless LAN systems.
The IEEE introduced the WEP as an optional security measure to secure 802.11b (Wi-Fi) WLANs,
but inherent weaknesses in the standard soon became obvious. In response to this situation, the
Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new security architecture in October 2002 that remedies the
shortcomings of WEP. This standard, formerly known as Safe Secure Network (SSN), is designed
to work with existing 802.11 products and offers forward compatibility with 802.11i, the new
wireless security architecture being defined in the IEEE.
WPA offers the following benefits:
Enhanced data privacy
Robust key management
Data origin authentication
Data integrity protection
B-10
Frequency
5.21 GHz
5.25 GHz
5.29 GHz
5.76 GHz
5.8 GHz
202-10078-01
Wireless Networking Basics

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading

Table of Contents