Netgear WND930 User Manual download pdf (Page 19)

Initial Setup

Outdoor High Power Wireless N Access Point

7. Verify that your wireless clients can connect to the access point.

When wireless connectivity is working, configure wireless security.

Plan Your Network Security

To prevent unauthorized access to your network, NETGEAR recommends that you use the

security features of your wireless equipment. You can enhance the security of your wireless

network in several ways:

• Use the WPA2 or Mixed WPA/WPA2 security option. A security option is the type of

security protocol applied to your wireless network. The security protocol encrypts data

transmissions and ensures that only trusted devices receive authorization to connect to

your network. Several types of encryption are available: Wi-Fi Protected Access II

(WPA2), WPA, and Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP).

- WPA2 is the latest and most secure. NETGEAR recommends that you use this option

if your equipment supports it.

- 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 Set Up Security Profiles on page 20.

• Keep watch over your wireless 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 Wireless Stations on page 53.

• 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 page 44.

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

Set

Up Security Profiles on page 20.

• Turn off the wireless radio. During the hours when your offices are closed, turn off the

wireless radio. For more information, see

Set Up a Schedule for the Wireless Radios on

page 27.

• 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

Set Up Security Profiles on page 20.

• Restrict access based on MAC address. You can restrict access to only trusted

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

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