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How Do I Configure the Wireless Home Gateway?
Setup Wireless – Security Page Description
This section describes the section headings and fields descriptions of the Setup
Wireless – Security page.
Note:
If you make changes in the Setup Wireless – Security page, click Apply to
apply and save your wireless security settings.
Field Name
Description
Network
Authentication
Network Authentication allows only authorized users to
gain access to your wireless network. Only users with an
authorized user name, password, or pre-shared key are
allowed access to the wireless network.
Select from the following Network Authentication protocols:
WPA
WPA-PSK
WPA2
WPA2-PSK
Note:
Network Authentication restricts access to your
wireless network to only authorized computers or users.
Authentication does not protect the data you send over the
wireless network connection. You must enable encryption to
protect data that is transmitted over your wireless network.
WPA/WPA2
Encryption
Allows you to select a WPA/WPA2 security method. The
factory default security is WPA-PSK.
WPA Pre-Shared Key
Allows you to set a WPA Pre-Shared key. Enter a text string
in this field. The text string or phrase is used to generate a
unique set of encryption keys for your network. Use this
string to set up wireless devices in your network.
The factory default security key is the 9-digit serial number
of the gateway. For example:
201677962
. See
How Do I Set
Up My High-Speed Internet Access Account?
(on page 22) for
the location of the serial number on the label.
The PSK can be either a text string or a 64 character
hexadecimal number.
The text string must be an ASCII character string with a
minimum of 8 characters but no more than 63.
Note:
Not all wireless adapter devices support PSK. For
these devices, you must enter the encryption keys exactly as
they appear in the in wireless gateway fields in the preceding
illustration of the Setup Wireless Security page.
