Using Push 'N' Connect (Wps) To Configure Your Wireless Network; Wps Button - NETGEAR WNR612v2 User Manual

Using Push 'N' Connect (WPS) to Configure Your Wireless
Network
For you to use Push 'N' Connect, your wireless computers or devices must support Wi-Fi
Protected Setup (WPS). Compatible equipment usually has the
can configure the network name (SSID) and set up WPA/WPA2 wireless security for the
wireless router and the wireless computer or device at the same time.
Some considerations regarding WPS are:
NETGEAR's Push 'N' Connect feature is based on the WPS standard. All other
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Wi-Fi-certified and WPS-capable products should be compatible with NETGEAR products
that implement Push 'N' Connect.
If your wireless network will include a combination of WPS-capable devices and
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non-WPS-capable devices, NETGEAR suggests that you set up your wireless network
and security settings manually first, and use WPS only for adding WPS-capable devices.
You can connect to the network using WPS either with a push button or a PIN.
Push Button. This is the preferred method. See the following section,
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Entering a PIN. See
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WPS Button

Any wireless computer or wireless adapter that will connect to the wireless router wirelessly is
a client. The client must support a WPS button, and must have a WPS configuration utility,
such as the NETGEAR Smart Wizard or Atheros Jumpstart.
To use the wireless router WPS button to add a WPS client:
Log in to the wireless router as described in
1.
On the wireless router main menu,
2.
select Add a WPS Client, and then
click Next.
By default, the Push Button
(recommended) radio button is
selected.
Either click the onscreen button or
3.
press the WPS button on the front of the wireless router.
The wireless router tries to communicate with the client (the computer that wants to join
the network) for 2 minutes.
Go to the client wireless computer, and run a WPS configuration utility. Follow the utility's
4.
instructions to click a WPS button.
Go back to the wireless router screen to check for a message.
5.
20 | Chapter 2: Wireless Configuration
on page 21.
WPS PIN Entry
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WPS symbol on it. WPS
Logging In to Your Router
WPS Button.
on page 9.
WPS
button