Setup wpa, Passphrase (alphanumeric characters), Hexadecimal – Compex Technologies NP25G 6C User Manual

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Setup WPA

Follow these steps to setup the router for using WPA Personal, WPA2

Personal, and WPA Auto Personal.

At the

W

W

P

P

A

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1

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page,

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Specify the

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, by selecting either:

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)

)

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Fill in the pre-shared network key:
If you are using the

P

P

a

a

s

s

s

s

p

p

h

h

r

r

a

a

s

s

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e

format, your entry can consist of a minimum of 8

alphanumeric characters or a maximum of 63 alphanumeric characters.


Otherwise, when using the

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e

x

x

a

a

d

d

e

e

c

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format, your entry MUST consist of 64

hexadecimal characters.

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3

:

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For WPA-Personal
Set the

C

C

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i

p

p

h

h

e

e

r

r

T

T

y

y

p

p

e

e

to

T

T

K

K

I

I

P

P

.

WPA replaces WEP with a strong encryption technology called Temporal Key
Integrity Protocol (TKIP) with Message Integrity Check (MIC).

For WPA2-Personal

Set the

C

C

i

i

p

p

h

h

e

e

r

r

T

T

y

y

p

p

e

e

to

A

A

E

E

S

S

.

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a stronger symmetric 128-bit block data
encryption technique. AES is a requirement of WPA2 under the IEEE 802.11i
standard.

For WPA-Personal-AUTO
Set the

C

C

i

i

p

p

h

h

e

e

r

r

T

T

y

y

p

p

e

e

to

A

A

u

u

t

t

o

o

to allow the router to automatically detect the cipher

type to use.

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