Specifications

Security
56 FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7050 – 6 WLAN: Wireless Local Area Networks
Security
Security is of utmost importance within radio networks. Ra-
dio signals can also be received outside of office or residen-
tial spaces and abused for criminal purposes.
Therefore it is important that no unauthorized users can reg-
ister in a WLAN to use its Internet access or shared network
resources.
FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN includes settings on various levels that
contribute to the security of your WLAN and thus to the secu-
rity of your computers.
Encryption
The most important security setting is encryption. FRITZ!Box
Fon WLAN supports the security mechanisms WEP (Wired
Equivalent Privacy), WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) and WPA2
as follows:
z As part of the WEP mechanism a static key is deter-
mined to serve for the encryption of the user data. The
key must also be entered in the WLAN settings of the
WLAN clients.
The factory settings of FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN include a
WLAN network key with a length of 128 bits. You should
enter your own individual value for the WLAN network
key as soon as possible.
z The WPA and WPA2 mechanisms provide for authentica-
tion while the connection is being established. For this
a WPA password must be defined.
Select an encryption method to be used to encrypt the
user data: TKIP using the WPA mechanism, or AES using
the WPA2 mechanism.
The user data are encrypted using an automatically gen-
erated key. This key is regenerated at regular intervals.