Netgear WAC120 User Manual download pdf (Page 22)

Initial Setup

802.11ac Wireless Access Point Model WAC120

- WEP and TKIP provide only legacy (slower) rates of operation. NETGEAR

recommends AES encryption so that you can use the 11n rates and speed.

For more information, see Wireless Security Profiles on p

age 22

• Connect st

ations manually. When you initiate a WPS connection, you provide a short

window of two minutes for a WPS-capable wireless client to join your network. Once the

connection is made, the intruder can learn your wireless security settings and rejoin your

network at a later time. For more information, see Connect Stations to the Wireless

Access Point on page 26.

• Keep watch over your wire

less network. Regularly monitor the wireless stations that

are allowed to connect to your access point and make sure that all of them are legitimate.

For more information, see View Available Wireless Stations on page 57.

• Change the login

password regularly. When you use the default login password, an

intruder can more easily figure out how to log in to the management interface of the

access point and change the settings. For more information, see Change the admin

Password on p

age 49.

Note: For additional wireless security, you can change the default network

key regularly. But whenever you change the network key, you must

reconnect all of the wireless devices. For more information, see

Wireless Security Profiles on page 22.

• Turn off the wireless radio. Durin

g the hours when your offices are closed, turn off the

wireless radio. For more information, see Wireless On-Off Schedule on page 20

• Turn off the broadcast of the wireless network name (SSID). If you disable broadcast

of the

SSID, only devices that use 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 more information, see Wireless Security Profiles on p

age 22.

• Restrict access b

ased on MAC address. You can restrict access to only trusted

computers so that unknown computers cannot connect wirelessly to the access point.

MAC address filtering adds an obstacle against unwanted access to your network. For

more information, see MAC Authentication on p

age 24.

Wireless Security Profiles

Details of each wireless network are contained in a security profile. You can edit up to eight

security profiles for each SSID. Each security profile contains the following information:

• Pro

file name. This is the unique profile name. This value can be up to 32 alphanu

meric

characters.

• SSID. This is the current SSID associated with this profile.

• Security. This is the curre

nt security standard, such as WPA-PSK, associated with the

profile.

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