Motorola SVG2500 User Manual page 80

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Encrypting Wireless LAN Transmissions
To prevent unauthorized viewing of data transmitted over your WLAN, you must
encrypt your wireless transmissions.
Use the Wireless 802.11b/g Privacy Page
one of:
Configure on the SVG2500
If all of your wireless clients support
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA),
Motorola recommends configuring
WPA on the SVG2500
Otherwise, configure WEP on
the SVG2500
If all of your wireless clients support WPA encryption, Motorola recommends using
WPA instead of WEP because WPA:
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Provides much stronger encryption and is more secure
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Provides authentication to ensure that only authorized users can log in to your
WLAN
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Is much easier to configure
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Uses a standard algorithm on all compliant products to generate a key from a
textual passphrase
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Will be incorporated into the new IEEE 802.11i wireless networking standard
For new wireless LANs, Motorola recommends purchasing client adapters that
support WPA encryption.
to encrypt your transmitted data. Choose
Required on Each Wireless Client
If you use a local pre-shared key (WPA-PSK) passphrase,
you must configure the identical passphrase to the
SVG2500 on each wireless client. Home and small-office
settings typically use a local passphrase.
You must configure the identical WEP key to the SVG2500
on each wireless client.
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