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Wireless-N ADSL2+ Modem Router DGN2000 Reference Manual
Configuring Your Wireless Network and Security Settings 2-9
v1.0, July 2008
Wireless Access
Point
(continued)
Allow Broadcast of Name
(SSID).
Selected by default, the modem router broadcasts its SSID,
allowing wireless stations that have a null (blank) SSID to
adopt the correct SSID. If you disable broadcast of the
SSID, only devices with the correct SSID can connect. This
nullifies the wireless network discovery feature of some
products such as Windows XP, but the data is still fully
exposed to a determined snoop using specialized test
equipment like wireless sniffers. For this reason NETGEAR
recommends that you also enable wireless security.
Wireless Isolation This feature is disabled by default. If it is enabled, wireless
stations cannot communicate with each other or with
stations on the wired network.
Wireless Station
Access List
Turn Access Control On Access control is disabled by default so that any computer
configured with the correct wireless network name or SSID
can access to your wireless network. For increased
security, you can restrict access to the wireless network to
only specific computers based on their MAC addresses.
See “Restricting access by MAC address.”
Security Options Disable Wireless security is not used.
WEP In WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) mode you can select
64-bit or 128-bit data encryption. This mode has been
superseded by WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK, which should be
selected if possible. See “Configuring WEP.”
WPA-PSK WPA Pre-Shared-Key (Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared
Key) uses a pre-shared key to perform the authentication
and generate the initial data encryption keys. Then, it
dynamically varies the encryption key.
WPA-PSK uses TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) data
encryption, implements most of the IEEE 802.11i standard,
and is designed to work with all wireless network interface
cards, but not all wireless access points. See “Configuring
Mixed WPA-PSK+WPA2-PSK Security.”
Table 2-1. Wireless Settings (continued)
Settings Description