Appendix 1 Glossary - Tenda W3002R User Manual

W3002R
Wireless N300 High Power Router
Channel
Channel
A communication channel, also known as channel, refers either to a physical
transmission medium such as a wire or to a logical connection over a
multiplexed medium such as a radio channel. It is used to transfer an
information signal, such as a digital bit stream, from one or more transmitters
to one or more receivers. If there is only one AP in the range, select any
channel you like. The default is Auto.
If there are several APs coexisting in the same area, it is advisable that you
select a different channel for each AP to operate on, minimizing the
interference between neighboring APs. For example, if 3 American- standard
APs coexist in one area, you can set their channels respectively to 1, 6 and 11
to avoid mutual interference.
SSID
SSID
Service set identifier (SSID) is used to identify a particular 802.11 wireless
LAN. It is the name of a specific wireless network. To let your wireless network
adapter roam among different APs, you must set all Aps' SSID to the same
name.
WPA/WPA2
The WPA protocol implements the majority of the IEEE 802.11i standard. It
enhances data encryption through the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
which is a 128-bit per-packet key, meaning that it dynamically generates a
new key for each packet. WPA also includes a message integrity check feature
to prevent data packets from being hampered with. Only authorized network
users can access the wireless network.
The later WPA2 protocol features compliance with the full IEEE 802.11i
standard and uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in addition to TKIP
encryption protocol to guarantee better security than that provided by WEP or
WPA. Currently, WPA is supported by Windows XP SP1.

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