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NETGEAR Wireless-N Access Point WN802Tv2 Reference Manual
3-2 Wireless Security Settings
v1.0, June 2008
• Use WPA or WPA-PSK. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) data encryption provides data
security. The very strong authentication along with dynamic per frame rekeying of WPA make
it virtually impossible to compromise. Because this is a new standard, wireless device driver
and software availability may be limited.
Figure 3-1 Network authentication types
Security options are available under Configuration > Security > Security Settings (see Figure 3-
1). An overview of the information that is required to set up security options follows—including a
description of the Network Authentication choices that are available:
• Wireless Network Name or Service Set Identifier (SSID). This is the name of your wireless
network. It is used to identify the particular 802.11 wireless LAN to which a user wants to
attach. A client device will receive broadcast messages from all access points within range
advertising their SSIDs, and can choose one to connect to based on pre-configuration, or by
displaying a list of SSIDs in range and asking the user to select one.It is set to the default name
of NETGEAR (see
“Configuring Basic Wireless Settings” in Chapter 2). It is normal for
multiple access points to share the same SSID if they provide access to the same network.