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Setup WPA
Follow these steps to setup the router for using WPA Personal, WPA2
Personal, and WPA Auto Personal.
At the
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Fill in the pre-shared network key:
If you are using the
P
P
a
a
s
s
s
s
p
p
h
h
r
r
a
a
s
s
e
e format, your entry can consist of a minimum of 8
alphanumeric characters or a maximum of 63 alphanumeric characters.
Otherwise, when using the
H
H
e
e
x
x
a
a
d
d
e
e
c
c
i
i
m
m
a
a
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l format, your entry MUST
consist of 64
hexadecimal characters.
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3
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:
For WPA-Personal
Set the
C
C
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i
p
p
h
h
e
e
r
r
T
T
y
y
p
p
e
e to
T
T
K
K
I
I
P
P.
WPA replaces WEP with a strong encryption technology called Temporal Key
Integrity Protocol (TKIP) with Message Integrity Check (MIC).
For WPA2-Personal
Set the
C
C
i
i
p
p
h
h
e
e
r
r
T
T
y
y
p
p
e
e to
A
A
E
E
S
S.
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a stronger symmetric 128-bit block data
encryption technique. AES is a requirement of WPA2 under the IEEE 802.11i
standard.
For WPA-Personal-AUTO
Set the
C
C
i
i
p
p
h
h
e
e
r
r
T
T
y
y
p
p
e
e to
A
A
u
u
t
t
o
o to allow the router to automatically detect the cipher
type to use.