ZyXEL Communications P-660H-T Series User Manual

P-660H/HW-T Series User’ Guide

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Chapter 5 Wireless LAN

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a subset of the IEEE 802.11i standard. WPA is preferred to 
WEP as WPA has user authentication and improved data encryption. See the appendix for 
more information on WPA user authentication and WPA encryption.

If you don’t have an external RADIUS server, you should use WPA-PSK (WPA -Pre-Shared 
Key). WPA-PSK only requires a single (identical) password entered into each WLAN 
member. As long as the passwords match, a client will be granted access to a WLAN. 

Note: You can’t use the Local User Database for authentication when you select 

WPA.

A WPA-PSK application looks as follows.

1 First enter identical passwords into the AP and all wireless clients. The Pre-Shared Key 

(PSK) must be between 8 and 63 printable characters (including spaces; alphabetic 
characters are case-sensitive).

2 The AP checks each client’s password and (only) allows it to join the network if the 

passwords match.

3 The AP derives and distributes keys to the wireless clients.

4 The AP and wireless clients use the TKIP encryption process to encrypt data exchanged 

between them.

MAC Address  Enter the MAC addresses in a valid MAC address format, that is, six hexadecimal 

character pairs, for example, 12:34:56:78:9a:bc of the wireless stations that are 

allowed or denied access to the Prestige in these address fields.

Back Click 

Back to go to the main wireless LAN setup screen.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the Prestige. 

Cancel

Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.

Table 14   MAC Filter (continued)