User's Manual

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Authentication and Encryption tab:
Authentication Type: There are seven type of
authentication modes including Open, Shared, Leap,
WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2, WPA2-PSK, and WPA-None.
x 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.
x Shared: Shared Key is when both the sender and the
recipient share a secret key.
x 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.)
x WPA-PSK: WPA-PSK offers two encryption
methods, TKIP and AES. Select the type of algorithm,