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SSID Security Mode
Authentication: User can choose which authentication type to
secure the wireless net work. There are four options for
authentication: Disable, WEP, WPA-personal and WPA-enterprise.
WEP: Short for Wired Equivalent Privacy, a security protocol for
wireless local area networks (WLANs) defined in the 802.11
standard.
Open or Restricted: An open system allows any client to
authenticate as long as it conforms to any MAC address filter
policies that may have been set. All authentication packets are
transmitted without encryption. If the 'Restricted' selected, all the
packets are transmitted with encryption.
Select Key: Check the radio box in front of the key you would like
to use for this AP.
WPA-Personal: The method of authentication is similar to WEP,
user can define a 'Pre-Shared Key', once the key is confirmed and
satisfied on both the client and access point, then access is
granted. The encryption method used is referred to as the
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).
WPA MODE: In this setting, user can choose WPA or WPA2 or WPA
& WPA2. (WPA2 is far superior to WPA, because the encryption of
method used is Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).)
Share Key: User should define the pre-share key in here; the
length of the key is (8-23 characters).
WPA Encryption: User can choose the encryption method of the
pre-shared key here; there are three options: Auto, AES and TKIP.
Group Key Update Interval: Time interval for rekeying the GTK
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