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AP Name: The name of the AP, which can be used to identify the Access Point
among the all the Access Points in the wireless network.
SSID: Service Set Identifier, which is a unique name shared among all clients
and nodes in a wireless network. The SSID must be identical for each clients
and nodes in the wireless network.
Channel: The channel that AP will operate in. You can select the channel range
of 1 to 11 for North America (FCC) domain, 1 to 13 for European (ETSI) domain
and 1 to 14 for Japanese domain.
Extended Range: When you enable this function, AP will reduce data rate with
a long distance.
Authentication Type: The authentication type default is set to open system.
There are four options: open system; shared key; WPA; WPA-PKS. You may
want to set to Shared Key when the clients and AP in the same wireless network
enable the WEP encryption. All the nodes and hosts on the network must use
the same authentication type.
WEP Key: To disable WEP security, click on the “Disable” option. To enable
WEP security, there are 2 types to select – 64bits and 128 bits. When it is
selected, the key value must be entered in ASCII or HEX format.
Note: When WEP security is enabled, all the wireless clients that wish to
connect to the Access Point must also have WEP enabled with the identical
WEP Key value entered.
Apply: For the changes made to any of the items above to be effective, click
“Apply”. The new settings are now been saved to Access Point and will be
effective once the Access Point restarts.
WPA, There are three essential components to the 802.1x infrastructure: (1)
Supplicant, (2) Authenticator and (3) Server. The Access Point serves as an
Authenticator, and the EAP methods used must be supported by the backend
Radius Server. And the 802.1x supports MD5 and TLS Extensive Authentication
Protocol (EAP). Please follow the steps below to configure WPA security.