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Authentication Type: There are seven type of authentication
modes including Open, Shared, Leap, WPA, WPA-PSK,
WPA2 and WPA2-PSK.
• Open: If your access point/wireless router is using
"Open” authentication, then the wireless adapter will
need to be set to the same authentication type.
• Shared: Shared key is when both the sender and the
recipient share a secret key.
• LEAP: Light Extensible Authentication Protocol. It is an
EAP authentication type used primarily in Cisco Aironet
WLANs. It encrypts data transmissions using dynamically
generated WEP keys, and supports mutual authentication
(only with CCX mode enabled.)
• WPA/WPA-PSK/WPA2/WPA2-PSK: WPA-PSK offers
two encryption methods, TKIP and AES. Select the type
of algorithm, TKIP or AES and then enter a WPA Shared
Key of 8~64 characters in the WPA Pre-shared Key field.
Encryption Type: For Open and Shared authentication
mode, the selection of encryption type are None and WEP.
For WPA, WPA2, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK
authentication mode, the encryption type supports both TKIP
and AES.
WPA Pre-shared Key: This is the shared secret between AP
and STA. For WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK authentication
mode, this field must be filled with character longer than 8
and less than 64 lengths.
WEP Key: Only valid when using WEP encryption
algorithm. The key must match with the AP’s key. There are
several formats to enter the keys.