WL-500W Wireless Router User Manual

2) Setting up wireless encryption

WL-500W provides a set of encryption and authentication methods to meet the different demands of home, SOHO, and enterprise users. Before setting up encryption and authentication for WL-500W, contact your network administrator for advice.

Click Wireless -> Interface to open the configuration page.

Note: For 802.11n performance, select 40MHz bandwidth. Channel option will depend on the bandwidth that you select.

Encryption

The encryption modes supported by WL-500W are: WEP (64bits), WEP (128bits), TKIP, AES, and TKIP+AES.

WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy, it uses 64bits or 128bits static keys to encrypt the data for wireless transmission. To setup WEP keys, set WEP Encryption to WEP-64bitsor WEP-128bits, then manually type in four sets WEP Keys (10 hexadecimal digits for 64-bit key or 26 hexadecimal digits for 128-bit key). You can also let the system generate the keys by entering a Passphrase.

TKIP stands for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. TKIP dynamically generates unique keys to encrypt every data packet in a wireless session.

AES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard. This solution offers stronger protection and increases the complexity of wireless encryption.

TKIP+AES is used when both WPA and WPA2 clients co-exist in the wireless network.

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