NETGEAR WPN111 user manual Wireless Security Overview, Wpa-Psk

User Manual for the NETGEAR RangeMax™ Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter WPN111

The WPN111 user can use five channels in turbo mode.

Turbo Mode ON

Channel	Frequency
42	5.21 GHz
50	5.25 GHz
58	5.29 GHz
152	5.76 GHz
160	5.8 GHz

The available channels supported by the wireless products in various countries are different.

Wireless Security Overview

Wireless technology is evolving rapidly to accommodate the need for stronger security. The following security schemes are supported in Netgear products:

•WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy is an existing, widely implemented and supported, data encryption protocol for 802.11 wireless networks. All wireless nodes on the network are configured with a static 64-bit or 128-bit Shared Key for data encryption but authentication is optional.

•WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a new specification of standards-based, interoperable security enhancements that increase the level of data protection and access control for wireless networks. WPA requires authentication and features strong data encryption that includes dynamic key generation. WPA uses the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) via WPA enables wireless access points using a modified version of the 802.1x protocols to access RADIUS and certificate servers which enable various authentication schemes such as Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Protected EAP (PEAP).

•WPA-PSK

WPA-Pre-Shared Key (WPA-PSK) performs authentication and encryption with a only a wireless access point based on a preshared key without needing to access RADIUS or certificate servers via the 802.1x protocols.

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