Asus P5Q3 Deluxe WiFi-AP n - Setting up Wireless Security

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3.5 Setting up wireless security
To protect your wireless network, you need to setup a security mechanism on your
WiFi-AP @n.
Network authentication
Network authentication uses certain types of mechanism to identify authenticated
wireless clients. WiFi-AP @n supports the following authentication methods:
Open system: 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 key: Shared means using the same WEP keys for authentication
and encryption.
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.
WPA2-PSK: WPA2 (WI-FI Protected Access 2) provides network
administrators with a high level of assurance that only
authorized users can access the network. Based on the
ratied IEEE 802.11i standard, WPA2 provides government
grade security. The WPA2 can be enabled in two versions --
WPA2-Personal and WPA2-Enterprise. WPA2-Personal
protects unauthorized network access by utilizing a set-up
password. WPA2-Enterprise veries network users through a
server. WPA2 is backward compatible with WPA.
Encryption
Encryption is used to convert plain text data into unreadable codes with certain
type of algorithm before capsulation for wireless transmission. WiFi-AP @n
supports the following encryption methods:
WEP: WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. It uses 64 or
128-bit static keys. You can let the system generate the WEP
keys by inputting a Passphrase.
TKIP: Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) dynamically generates
unique keys to encypt every data packet in a wireless session.
AES: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a dependable
encryption adopted in WPA2 or IEEE802.11i standard. It offers
stronger protection and greatly increases the complexity of
wireless encryption.