TRENDnet TEW-450APB User Guide - Page 12

AP Name: The name of the AP, which can be used to identify the Access Point among the all the Access Points in the wireless network. SSID: Service Set Identifier, which is a unique name shared among all clients and nodes in a wireless network. The SSID must be identical for each clients and nodes in the wireless network. Channel: The channel that AP will operate in. You can select the channel range of 1 to 11 for North America (FCC) domain, 1 to 13 for European (ETSI) domain and 1 to 14 for Japanese domain. Extended Range: When you enable this function, AP will reduce data rate with a long distance. Authentication Type: The authentication type default is set to open system. There are four options: open system; shared key; WPA; WPA-PKS. You may want to set to Shared Key when the clients and AP in the same wireless network enable the WEP encryption. All the nodes and hosts on the network must use the same authentication type. WEP Key: To disable WEP security, click on the "Disable" option. To enable WEP security, there are 2 types to select - 64bits and 128 bits. When it is selected, the key value must be entered in ASCII or HEX format. Note: When WEP security is enabled, all the wireless clients that wish to connect to the Access Point must also have WEP enabled with the identical WEP Key value entered. Apply: For the changes made to any of the items above to be effective, click "Apply". The new settings are now been saved to Access Point and will be effective once the Access Point restarts. WPA, There are three essential components to the 802.1x infrastructure: (1) Supplicant, (2) Authenticator and (3) Server. The Access Point serves as an Authenticator, and the EAP methods used must be supported by the backend Radius Server. And the 802.1x supports MD5 and TLS Extensive Authentication Protocol (EAP). Please follow the steps below to configure WPA security. 10