Netgear PR2000 User Manual download pdf (Page 42)

genie BASIC Settings

Trek N300 Travel Router and Range Extender PR2000

7. (Optional) Change the security settings as needed.

For more information, see Change the Wireless Security Option on page 42.

8. Click the Apply button.

Your settings are saved.

If you were connected wirelessly to the router and you changed the SSID or wireless

security, you are disconnected from the network.

9. If you changed the settings, make sure that you can connect wirelessly to the network with

its new settings.

If you cannot connect wirelessly, check the following:

• Is your computer or wireless device connected to another wireless network in your

area? Some wireless devices automatically connect to the first open network (without

wireless security) that they discover.

• Is your computer or wireless device trying to connect to your network with its old

settings (before you changed the settings)? If so, update the wireless network

selection in your computer or wireless device to match the current settings for your

network.

Change the Wireless Security Option

A security option is the type of security protocol applied to your wireless network. The

security protocol in force encrypts data transmissions and ensures that only trusted devices

receive authorization to connect to your network. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) has several

options including pre-shared key (PSK) encryption.

Note: The Trek comes with unique preset wireless security. These settings

are on the product label. NETGEAR recommends that you use

preset security so that you can refer to the label if you forget the

WiFi password. However, you can change the security option and

passphrase.

WPA encryption is built into all hardware that has the Wi-Fi-certified seal. This seal means

that the product is authorized by the Wi-Fi Alliance (www.wi-fi.org/) because it complies with

the worldwide single standard for high-speed wireless local area networking.

WPA uses a passphrase for authentication and to generate the initial data encryption keys.

Then it dynamically varies the encryption key. WPA-PSK uses Temporal Key Integrity

Protocol (TKIP) data encryption, implements most of the IEEE 802.11i standard, and works

with all wireless network interface cards, but not all wireless access points.

WPA2-PSK is stronger than WPA-PSK. It is advertised to be theoretically indecipherable due

to the greater degree of randomness in encryption keys that it generates. WPA2-PSK gets

higher speed because it is implemented through hardware; WPA-PSK is implemented

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