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Setting up your wireless router
6 Click Apply Changes to finish. You must now set all clients to match these settings
depending on the type of access you want them to have.
Important: Make sure that your wireless computers are updated to work with WPA2 and
have the correct settings to get proper connection to your router.
Setting WPA Security
Note: To use WPA security, your wireless network cards must be equipped with software that
supports WPA. At the time this User Manual was published, a security patch from
Microsoft is available for free download. This patch works only with Windows XP.
Your router supports WPA-Personal (PSK), which uses a pre-shared key (PSK) as the security
key. A pre-shared key is basically a password that is between eight and 63 characters long. It
can be a combination of letters, numbers, or characters. Each client uses the same key to
access the network. Typically this is the mode that will be used in a home environment.
To set WPA-PSK security:
1 From the Security Mode drop-down menu, select WPA/WPA-Personal (PSK).
2 For Encryption Technique, select TKIP or AES. This setting will have to be identical
on the clients that you set up.
3 Enter your pre-shared key. This can be from eight to 63 characters and can be letters,
numbers, or symbols. This same key must be used on all of the clients that you set up.
4 Click Apply Changes to finish. You must now set all clients to match these settings.