Manually Configuring Your Wireless Security; Restricting Wireless Access To Your Network - NETGEAR DGN3500 User Manual

Table 2.
Settings
Wireless Station Access
List
Security Options

Manually Configuring Your Wireless Security

To set up wireless security, you can either manually configure it in the Wireless Settings
screen, or you can use Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) to automatically set the SSID and
implement WPA/WPA2 security (see
Wireless Network
If you use a wireless computer to configure wireless security
Note:
settings, you will be disconnected when you click Apply.
Reconfigure your wireless computer to match the new settings, or
access the modem router from a wired computer to make further
changes.

Restricting Wireless Access to Your Network

By default, any wireless PC that is configured with the correct SSID can access your wireless
network. For increased security, the wireless modem router provides several ways to restrict
wireless access to your network. You can do the following:
Turn off wireless connectivity completely.
•
Restrict access based on the wireless network name (SSID).
•
N300 Wireless Gigabit ADSL2+ Modem Router DGN3500
Description
This 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
MAC address
• Disable. You can use this setting to establish wireless connectivity before
implementing wireless security. NETGEAR strongly recommends that you
implement wireless security.
• WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). Use encryption keys and data encryption
for data security. Select 64-bit or 128-bit encryption. See
on page 25.
• WPA-PSK (WiFi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key). Allow only computers
configured with WPA to connect to the wireless modem router.
• WPA2-PSK Wi-Fi Protected Access with 2 Pre-Shared Keys). Allow only
computers configured with WPA2 to connect to the wireless modem router.
• Mixed WPA-PSK + WPA2-PSK. Allow computers configured with either
WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK security to connect to the wireless modem router.
•
WPA-802.1x.
• For WPA or WPA2 configuration, see
WPA-PSK+WPA2-PSK Security
Using Push 'N' Connect (WPS) to Configure Your
on page 27).
Configuring Your Wireless Network and Security Settings
Configuring Mixed
on page 24.
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Restricting access by
Configuring WEP