Netgear WN604-100NAS Reference Manual - Page 16
Supported Standards and Conventions, Key Features, Full WPA and WPA2 support. - setup
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NETGEAR Wireless N150 Access Point WN604 Reference Manual Supported Standards and Conventions The following standards and conventions are supported: • Standards Compliance. The Wireless Access Point complies with the IEEE 802.11b/g/n standards for Wireless LANs. • Wi-Fi Protected Setup support. Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) support, a standard created and certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance for easy and secure home wireless network configuration. • Full WPA and WPA2 support. WPA and WPA2 enterprise-class strong security with RADIUS and certificate authentication as well as dynamic encryption key generation.WPAPSK and WPA2-PSK preshared key authentication without the overhead of RADIUS servers but with all of the strong security of WPA. • DHCP Client Support. DHCP provides a dynamic IP address to PCs and other devices upon request. The WN604 can act as a client and obtain information from your DHCP server; it can also act as a DHCP server and provide network information for wireless clients. • LAN ports. 4 x 10/100 LAN ports support. Key Features The WN604 provides solid functionality, including the following features: • Operating Frequency. The Wireless Access Point operates in the standard 2.4 GHz band. It has Multiple operating modes: - Wireless Access Point. Operates as a standard 11b/bg/ng access point. - Point-to-Point Bridge. In this mode, the WN604 only communicates with another bridgemode wireless access point (with or without clients). Network authentication should be used to protect this communication. - Point-to-Multi-Point Bridge. In this mode the WN604 is the "Master" for a group of bridge-mode wireless access points. The other bridge-mode wireless access points send all traffic to this "Master", and do not communicate directly with each other. Network Authentication should be used to protect this traffic. - Client mode. In this mode the access point acts as a client. It is used to extend the LAN of clients that do not have wireless connectivity • Scheduled Wireless ON/OFF. Schedule wireless to be ON/OFF through certain days of the week and hours of each weekday. 1-2 Introduction v1.0, March 2010