Setting Up Wireless Security; Network Authentication - Asus E3060 WiFi-AP Solo User Manual

3.4 Setting up wireless security

To protect your wireless network, you need to setup a security mechanism
on your WiFi-AP Solo. Under AP mode, only Open, Shared, and WPA-PSK
are supported. Under Station mode, all the security modes listed below are
supported.

Network authentication

Network authentication uses certain types of mechanism to identify authenticated
wireless clients. WiFi-AP Solo supports the following authentication methods:
Open: This option disables authentication protection for your wireless network.
Under the Open mode, any IEEE802.11b/g wireless client can connect to
your wireless network.
Shared:
Shared means using the same WEP keys for authentication and encryption.
802.1X: 802.1X uses RADIUS (Remote Access Dial-Up User Service) server
to authenticate wireless clients with a user name and password. It can
authenticate user with different levels of access right.
WPA: WPA stands for WiFi-Protected Access. WPA provides two security
modes for Home/SOHO user and enterprise network. The former
solution adopts Pre-Shared Key for authentication, and the later uses the
existing 802.1X RADIUS server in the enterprise network to process the
authentication requests.
WPA - PSK: WPA-PSK (Pre-Shared Key) is the solution for home and SOHO
users who have no 802.11X authentication server within the LAN.
To setup WPA-PSK, you need to input a passphrase and let the
system generate the key. Combination of letters, numbers and non-
alphnumeric charecters is recommended for ensuring security.
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