Corega 108M user manual Security Configuration, ESSID Extended Service Set IDentifier

6Security Configuration

WLCB54GS Manual

There are 4 security setting ways for preventing intruders from Wireless LAN.

•ESSID (Extended Service Set IDentifier)

ESSID (or SSID) is the name of a wireless local area network (WLAN). All wireless devices on a WLAN must employ the same ESSID in order to communicate with each other.You may set either manually, by entering the SSID into the cli- ent network settings, or automatically, by leaving the SSID unspecified or blank. Some newer wireless access points disable the automatic SSID broadcast feature in an attempt to improve network security.

•WEP (Wireless Encryption Protocol)

WEP is available in 64-bit, or in 128-bit encryption modes. As 128-bit encryption provides a longer algorithm that takes longer to decode, it can provide better security than basic 64-bit encryption. Recommended enable this func- tion to protect the data stream.

•WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access)

Wi-Fi Protected Access which authorizes and identifies users based on a secret key that changes automatically at regular intervals. WPA uses TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) to change the temporal key every 10,000 packets (a packet is a kind of message transmitted over a network.) This ensures much greater security than the standard WEP security. (By contrast, the previous WEP encryption imple- mentations required the keys to be changed manually.)

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