User manual ASUS WL-AM604G

[. . . ] ¤ 11gWiFiADSLRouter WL-AM604g xDSL AP LINK ACT 4 3 LAN 2 1 ! UserManual E3654/January2008 ASUSContactInformation ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. 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Tableofcontents Packagecontents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hardwareoverview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Click Wireless->Basic in the navigation menu to open the configuration page. 2. If you want to hide your WL-AM604g from wireless scanning, select HideAccess Point. But if the wireless clients have the correct SSID, they can still connect to your WL-AM604g. Press Save/Apply to save and activate the settings. Settingupawirelesssecurity To protect your wireless network, you need to set up a security mechanism at both WL-AM604g and the wireless clients. Networkauthentication Network authentication uses certain types of mechanism to identify authenticated wireless clients. WL-AM604g supports the following authentication methods: Open: Shared: 802. 1X: This option disables authentication protection for your wireless network. Under the Open mode, any IEEE802. 11b/g wireless client can connect to your wireless network. 802. 1X uses RADIUS (Remote Access Dial-Up User Service) server to authenticate wireless clients with a username and password. It can authenticate users with different levels of access rights. 17 xDSL AP LINK ACT 4 3 LAN 2 1 ! WL-AM604g11gWiFiADSLRouterUserManual WPA/WPA2: WPA stands for WiFi-Protected Access. WPA provides two security modes for Home/SOHO user and enterprise network. The former solution adopts Pre-Shared Key for authentication, and the latter uses the existing 802. 1X RADIUS server in the enterprise network to process the authentication requests. WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK: WPA-PSK (Pre-Shared Key) is the solution for home and SOHO users who have no 802. 11X authentication server within the LAN. To set up WPA-PSK, you need to key in a passphrase and let the system generate the key. Combination of letters, numbers and non-alphanumeric characters is recommended for ensuring security. Encryption Encryption is used to convert plain text data into unreadable codes with certain type of algorithm before capsulation for wireless transmission. WL-AM604g supports the following encryption methods: WEP: TKIP: AES: WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) dynamically generates unique keys to encrypt every data packet in a wireless session. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a dependable encryption adopted in WPA2 or IEEE802. 11i standard. It offers stronger protection and greatly increases the complexity of wireless encryption. TKIP+AES: For a network where WPA clients (using TKIP encryption) and WPA2 clients (using AES encryption) co-exist. Select this option to enable both. Howtosetupwirelesssecurity Open 1. Click Wireless->Security in the navigation menu to open the configuration page. 18 WL-AM604g11gWiFiADSLRouterUserManual xDSL AP LINK ACT 4 3 LAN 2 1 ! 3. Select Enable in the WEPEncryption field to use WEP keys for data encryptions. Select 64-bit or 128-bit Encryption Strength for key length then click Set Encryption Keys button to set up the keys. If you do not want to encrypt data, select Disable in WEPEncryption and skip to Step 5. [. . . ] The DHCP server enables you to assign the addresses for to the LAN computers. Press Save to save the configurations and go on setting up the other features. If all settings are complete, press Save/Reboot to apply the settings and reboot WLAM604g. 28 WL-AM604g11gWiFiADSLRouterUserManual xDSL AP LINK ACT 4 3 LAN 2 1 ! Settingupthedefaultgateway This section allows you to manually set up the default gateway of Internet connection. Click AdvancedSetup->Routing->DefaultGateway to open the configuration page. 2. [. . . ]