Securing Your Wireless Connection - Technicolor TG588v v2 Setup And User Manual

3.4 Securing your wireless connection

Introduction
We strongly recommend you to protect all wireless communication between any wireless client and your TG588v v2 with a
wireless key. This ensures that:
• Only clients that use the correct Network Name (SSID) and wireless key can connect to access point of your TG588v v2.
• All data passing through the wireless access point of your TG588v v2 is secured by adequate encryption.
Encryption types
The list below gives you an overview of the encryption types supported by your TG588v v2 and ordered by descending
security level; you will find the highest level of security at the top of the list:
• WPA-Enterprise (WPA-802.1X or simply WPA) encryption:
Wireless clients will authenticate to a specific Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) server. This
RADIUS server then provides the wireless key that must be used to encrypt its data. The RADIUS server regularly
updates this key at a specified interval.
• WPA-Personal (WPA-PSK) Encryption:
The wireless connection is secured with a pre-shared key that has been defined by the user. Wireless clients must be
configured with this key before they can connect to your TG588v v2. Your TG588v v2 supports the following WPA-PSK
versions (ordered by descending security):
 WPA2 PSK: the most recent and most secure version of WPA-PSK.
Choose this version if you are sure that all your wireless clients support WPA2-PSK.
 WPA+WPA2 PSK: this is a mixed mode.
WPA2-PSK is the preferred encryption type, but wireless clients that do not support WPA2-PSK can still use
WPA-PSK as encryption type.
Choose this option if not all of your wireless clients support WPA2-PSK, or if you are not sure. Wireless clients that
support WPA2-PSK will use WPA2-PSK, the others will use WPA-PSK.
• WEP Encryption:
The least safe encryption type used for wireless connections. Like WPA-PSK it uses a user-defined key, but WEP has
been proven to have security issues.
Although your TG588v v2 allows you to use WEP or no security, we strongly advise against using one of them!
Configuration
To secure your wireless network with:
• WPA-PSK encryption, continue with
• WPA encryption (via RADIUS), continue with
DMS3-CTC-25-42 v1.0
"3.4.1 Configuring WPA(2)-PSK encryption" on page
"3.4.2 Configuring WPA-Enterprise encryption" on page
3 Wireless networking
25.
26.
24