D-Link DIR-645 manual Wireless Security Mode WPA-Personal

Section 3 - Software Configuration

Wireless Security Mode: WPA-Personal

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is the most advanced and up to date wireless encryption method used today. This is the recommended wireless security option. WPA supports two authentication frameworks. Personal (PSK) and Enterprise (EAP). Personal requires only the use of a pass-phrase (Shared Secret) for security.

The following parameters will be available for configuration:

WPA Mode: WPA is the older standard; select this option if the clients that will be used with the router only support the older standard. WPA2 is the newer implementation of the stronger IEEE 802.11i security standard. With the “WPA2” option, the router tries WPA2 first, but falls back to WPA if the client only supports WPA. With the “WPA2 Only” option, the router associates only with clients that also support WPA2 security.

Cipher Type: Select the appropriate cipher type to use here. Options to choose from are Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and Both (TKIP and AES).

Group Key Enter the amount of time before the group key Update Interval: used for broadcast and multicast data is changed.

Pre-Shared Key: Enter the shared secret used here. This secret phrase needs to be the same on all of the wireless clients for them to be able to connect to the wireless network successfully.

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