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Profile Name - Identifies the configuration profile. This name must be unique. Profile names
are not case-sensitive.
SSID - The IEEE 802.11 wireless network name. This field has a maximum limit of 32
characters.
Network Type: There are basically two modes of networking:
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Infrastructure - All wireless clients will connect to an access point or wireless router.
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Ad Hoc - Directly connecting to another computer, for peer-to-peer communication,
using wireless network adapters on each computer, such as two or more TL-WN727N
wireless adapters.
Note:
1)
An Infrastructure network contains an Access Point or wireless router. All the wireless
devices or clients will connect to the wireless router or access point.
2)
An Ad Hoc network contains only clients, such as laptops with wireless desktop adapters. All
the adapters must be in Ad Hoc mode to communicate.
2.
In the following screen, select the corresponding Authentication mode and Encryption type
of the profile from the drop-down lists (here takes WPA2-PSK and AES for example), then
click the Next icon
Authentication - You can choose the Authentication Type from the pull-down list with
seven options, Open, Shared, WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2, WPA2-PSK, and 802.1X.
Encryption - Displays which encryption type that the adapter is using. When you select
Open as Authentication, there are two options: None and WEP. If you select Shared and
802.1X as Authentication, there is only one option: WEP. When you select WPA,
WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK as Authentication, there are two options: TKIP and AES. When
you select WPA2 as Authentication, four options are available: TKIP, AES, TKIP(MFP) and
AES(MFP).
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Figure 3-5 Authentication and Encryption
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