Owner's Manual

NETGEAR genie Basic Settings

N300 Wireless Router JWNR2000v3

receive authorization to connect to your network. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) has several

options including pre-shared key (PSK) encryption.

This section presents an overview of the security options and provides guidance on when to

use which option.

WEP Encryption

WEP uses an old encryption method and can be easily decoded with today’s powerful

computers. Use this mode only when you have a very old legacy wireless client that does not

support WPA-PSK. The Wi-Fi Alliance highly recommends against using WEP and plans to

make it obsolete. If you do decide to use WEP, see

Change the WEP Security Option on

page 29 for the procedure.

WPA Encryption

WPA encryption is built into all hardware that has the Wi-Fi-certified seal. This seal means

that the product is authorized by the Wi-Fi Alliance (

http://www.wi-fi.org/) because it complies

with the worldwide single standard for high-speed wireless local area networking.

WPA uses a password to perform authentication and generate the initial data encryption

keys, then it dynamically varies the encryption key. WPA-PSK uses Temporal Key Integrity

Protocol (TKIP) data encryption, implements most of the IEEE 802.11i standard, and works

with all wireless network interface cards, but not all wireless access points. It is superseded

by WPA2-PSK.

WPA2-PSK is stronger than WPA-PSK. It is advertised to be theoretically indecipherable due

to the greater degree of randomness in encryption keys that it generates. WPA2-PSK gets

higher speed because it is usually implemented through hardware, while WPA-PSK is usually

implemented through software. WPA2-PSK uses a password to authenticate and generate

the initial data encryption keys. Then it dynamically varies the encryption key.

WPS-PSK + WPA2-PSK Mixed Mode can provide broader support for all wireless clients.

WPA2-PSK clients get higher speed and security, and WPA-PSK clients get decent speed

and security.

Change the WEP Security Option

You can change the WEP security settings for your router. If you do so, then write down the

new settings and store them in a secure place for future reference. For more information

about WEP, see

WEP Encryption on page 29.

 To change the WEP settings:

1. Select BASIC > Wireless.

The Wireless Setup screen displays.