Wireless-Security - Tenda A5s User Manual

within coverage when they perform a scan to see what's
available. When disabled, this SSID becomes invisible to any
wireless clients within the coverage. Manually enter the SSID
if you want to connect to it.
Channel: For an optimal wireless performance, you may
select the least interferential channel. It is advisable that you
select an unused channel or "Auto" to let device detect and
select the best possible channel for your wireless network to
operate on from the drop‐down list.
Channel Bandwidth: Select a proper channel bandwidth to
enhance wireless performance. When there are 11b/g and
11n wireless clients, please select 40M frequency band; when
there are only non‐11n wireless clients, select 20M frequency
band mode; when the wireless network mode is 11n mode,
please select 20/40 frequency band to boost its throughput.
Extension Channel: Available only in 11b/g/n mixed mode. It
is used to ensure N speed for 802.11n devices on the
network.
8.2 Wireless‐Security
This section allows you to encrypt your wireless network to
block unauthorized accesses and malicious packet sniffing with
WEP, WPA and WPA2. For better security, it is advisable to use the
WPA‐AES encryption.
8.2.1 WPA‐PSK
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
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