ZyXEL Communications P660HN-Fx User Manual

 Chapter 6 Wireless

ADSL Series User’s Guide

The WPA-PSK security mode provides both improved data encryption and user authentication over 
WEP. Using a Pre-Shared Key (PSK), both the ZyXEL Device and the connecting client share a 
common password in order to validate the connection. This type of encryption, while robust, is not 
as strong as WPA, WPA2 or even WPA2-PSK. The WPA2-PSK security mode is a newer, more robust 
version of the WPA encryption standard. It offers slightly better security, although the use of PSK 
makes it less robust than it could be. 

Click Network Settings > Wireless to display the General screen. Select More Secure as the 
security level. Then select WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK from the Security Mode list.

Wireless > General: More Secure: WPA(2)-PSK

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Wireless > General: WPA(2)-PSK

Security Level

Select More Secure to enable WPA(2)-PSK data encryption.

Security Mode

Select WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK from the drop-down list box.

Pre-Shared Key 

The encryption mechanisms used for WPA/WPA2 and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK are the 
same. The only difference between the two is that WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK uses a 
simple common password, instead of user-specific credentials.

Type a pre-shared key from 8 to 63 case-sensitive ASCII characters or 64 hexidecimal 
digits.

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