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Michael Callahan: Hi, this is Michael Callahan doctor file finder and welcome back to our special Butterscotch.com ten parts series on understanding your router. Now in this segment going to look at implementing the WPA2 protocol. WPA stands for wifi protected access in your router settings under wireless and wireless security, you should find a drop down list with security modes there are available in your router.
Now click this you say WPA personal, WPA Enterprise, WPA2 personnel and enterprise if that all possible if it's available on your router takes WPA2 personnel. Now you can see the under WPA2 personnel, we have WPA algorithms, you are offered AES and TKIP + AES. If in your home network you have devices that support both WPA and WPA2 that you have to select the TKIP + AES.
If you have all the WPA2 devices then you can just pick AES. Then you want to have a shared key. This is something that you will entered has been type in from every computer on your network when they want to access the network prefers time. After there they can have there computer remember it, so pick a shared key that you can remember this one is 12 characters and length it can be from 8 to 63 characters long, just keep in mind that you are going have to remember it. In a home setting what you can do is go around to each computer or device that's going to access the network and put in the WPA shared key well its all fresh in your mind.
I also can just storing that in a database or writing that piece of paper and putting that way so you can remember, when you are done setting that up, click save setting and your network will be solid keep in mind though that each computer on the network outside of the one that are connected to the router will have to enter this shared key in order to access the network. This is one segment of a ten part series and understanding in your router. Make sure you look at all the other segments.
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