Security Settings

The Security page lets you configure and change the security settings for the router, including your wireless security settings, MAC address filtering options, and login information.

Router Login

This displays the current user name and password assigned to the router. To change your user name and/or password, enter the new user name and password and click Save at the bottom of the page. You will need to log in to your router with the new user name and password.

Password Rules:

  1. The Wireless Ndx Router lets you set a password up to 15 characters long. The most secure passwords are usually between 8 and 15 characters long.

  2. The router will allow you to enter a space or other punctuation in your password.

  3. Use a mixture of upper (A through Z) and lower (a through z) case letters.

  4. Adding numbers 0 through 9 to a password increases security.

  5. Use ASCII symbols, such as ~ ! @ # $ % & ^ *, etc, to further increase the security of your password.

 

Wireless

In this section you can enable the wireless security features. USRobotics strongly recommends that you enable some form of wireless security so that unauthorised clients are not able to access your network. All the wireless devices you want to connect to the network must have the same security settings including the pass phrase or key that you use to secure your wireless network.

Note: For your wireless security settings, it is recommended that you select the WPA2 and WPA (PSK) or WPA2 and WPA with 802.1x (RADIUS) wireless security method using TKIP and AES encryption for the most secure wireless network.


Select the encryption Method that you want the wireless network to use. You can select from the following methods and enter the pass phrase or key:

Note: Not all wireless clients support AES encryption when using WPA (PSK) security. TKIP encryption with WPA (PSK) is supported by most wireless clients. You can assign the router WPA (PSK) security with the TKIP and AES encryption to cover both AES and TKIP clients.

Note: Not all wireless clients support AES encryption when using WPA (PSK) security. TKIP encryption with WPA is supported by most wireless clients.

Note: The setting of None is not recommended since without any encryption enabled, your network will be vulnerable to outside malicious attacks

 

MAC Filter

In this area you can control which wireless devices are allowed or denied access to the router based upon their MAC addresses. The MAC address can usually be found either on a label on the external wireless product or in the configuration utility of the wireless client, depending on the wireless device you are using.

The router configuration pages let you configure access to the router based on MAC addresses by using the Allow Current Clients button or specify a level of filter to apply:

Note: You need to click Save to save all your new settings and reboot the router after you have completed all your changes.