Wireless Security Overview - ZyXEL Communications NWD2105 User Manual

Appendix B Wireless LANs
several intermediate rate steps between the maximum and minimum data rates.
The IEEE 802.11g data rate and modulation are as follows:
Table 28 IEEE 802.11g
DATA RATE
(MBPS)
1
2
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Wireless Security Overview

Wireless security is vital to your network to protect wireless communication
between wireless clients, access points and the wired network.
Wireless security methods available on the NWD2105 are data encryption,
wireless client authentication, restricting access by device MAC address and hiding
the NWD2105 identity.
The following figure shows the relative effectiveness of these wireless security
methods available on your NWD2105.
Table 29 Wireless Security Levels
SECURITY
LEVEL
Least
Secure
Most Secure
Note: You must enable the same wireless security settings on the NWD2105 and on
all wireless clients that you want to associate with it.
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MODULATION
DBPSK (Differential Binary Phase Shift Keyed)
DQPSK (Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying)
CCK (Complementary Code Keying)
OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)
SECURITY TYPE
Unique SSID (Default)
Unique SSID with Hide SSID Enabled
MAC Address Filtering
WEP Encryption
IEEE802.1x EAP with RADIUS Server
Authentication
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
WPA2
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