Secure Your Wireless Network - TRENDnet TEW734APO User Manual

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o Enabled allows wireless devices to search and discover your wireless network
name (also called SSID) broadcasted by your router.
o Disabled turns off the ability for wireless devices to find your network. It is
still possible for wireless devices to be configured to connect to your wireless
network.
 Wireless Separation:
o Enabled separates all wireless clients connected to this SSID, clients cannot
communicate with each other.
o Disabled allows all wireless clients connect to this SSID to communicate with
each other
 WMM: Wi-Fi Multimedia is a Quality of Service (QoS) feature which prioritizes
audio and video data packets. This feature requires the wireless device to also
support WMM. Click Enabled (recommended) or Disabled to turn this feature on
or off on your router.
 Max. Station Num.: Select this option to limit the amount of clients who can
connect to this SSID.
o Enter the amount of clients you would like to limit.

Secure your wireless network

After you have determined which security type to use for your wireless network (see
"How to choose the security type for your wireless network" on page 12), you can set up
wireless security.
1. Log into the management page (see
2. Click on Wireless button and click on Profile Settings.
3. Click on the Profile name you would like to apply wireless security.
4. Select the wireless security on your wireless network from the Network
Authentication pull down menu.
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"Access the management page" on page 9).
Selecting WEP (Open System or Shared Key):
If selecting WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), please review the WEP settings to configure
and click Apply to save the changes.
Note: It is recommended to use Open System because it is known to be more secure
than Shared Key.
 Data Encryption: Choose the key length 64-bit or 128-bit.
Note: It is recommended to use 128-bit because it is more secure to use a key that
consists of more characters.
 Key type: Choose HEX or ASCII.
Note: It is recommended to use ASCII because of the much larger character set that
can be used to create the key.
 Key 1-4
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