EDIMAX BR-6504n Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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2-7-3 Wireless Security

It’s very important to set wireless security settings properly!

If you don’t,

hackers and malicious users can reach your network and valuable data

without your consent and this will cause serious security problem.

To set wireless security settings, Please click ‘Wireless’ menu on the left of

web management interface, then click ‘Security Settings’, then follow the

following instructions to set wireless security settings:

Please select an encryption method from ‘Encryption’ dropdown menu, there

are four options:

2-7-3-1 Disable wireless security

When you select this mode, data encryption is disabled, and every wireless

device in proximity will be able to connect your wireless router if no other

security measure is enabled (like MAC address access control - see section

2-7-4, or disable ESSID broadcast).

Only use this option when you really want to allow everyone to use your

wireless router, and you don’t care if there’s someone reads the data you

transfer over network without your consent.

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2-7-3-2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy

When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption, and

the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

Key Length :

There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and

128-bit. Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but will

reduce some data transfer performance.

Key Format :

There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex.

When you select a key format, the number of characters

of key will be displayed. For example, if you

select ’64-bit’ as key length, and ‘Hex’ as key format,

you’ll see the message at the right of ‘Key Format’ is

‘Hex (10 characters), which means the length of WEP

key is 10 characters.

Default Tx Key :

You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you can

decide which key is being used by default here.

If you

don’t know which one you should use, select ‘Key 1’.

Encryption Key

Input WEP key characters here, the number of

1 to 4 (5-8):

characters must be the same as the number displayed at

‘Key Format’ field. You can use any alphanumerical

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characters (0-9, a-z, and A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key

format, and if you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can

use characters 0-9, a-f, and A-F. You must enter at least

one encryption key here, and if you entered multiple

WEP keys, they should not be same with each other.

Enable 802.1x

Check this box and another sub-menu will appear:

Authentication :

RADIUS Server

Please input the IP address of radius

IP address :

server here

RADIUS Server

Please input the port number of radius

Port :

server here.

RADIUS Server

Please input the port number of radius

Password :

password here.

After you finish WEP setting, please click ‘Apply’ button

and the following

TIPS: Some examples of WEP key

(Don’t use those examples; use the one of your own!):

ASCII (5 characters): pilot

phone

23561

2Hyux

#@xmL

ASCII (13 characters): digitalFAMILY

82Jh26xHy3m&n

Hex (10 characters): 287d2aa732

1152dabc85

Hex (26 characters): 9284bcda8427c9e036f7abcd84

To improve security level, do not use those words which can be found

in a dictionary or too easy to remember! (‘pilot’ and ‘phone’ listed

above are bad examples; just intended to show you how a WEP key

look like). Wireless clients will remember the WEP key, so you only

have to input the WEP key on wireless client once, and it’s worth to

use complicated WEP key to improve security level.

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message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other

setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will

take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting).

2-7-3-3 Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA):

When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WPA encryption, and

the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

WPA Unicast

Please select a type of WPA cipher suite.

Cipher Suite :

Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and

WPA2 Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have

to make sure your wireless client support the cipher you

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selected.

Pre-shared

Select the type of pre-shared key, you

Key Format :

can select Passphrase (8 or more alphanumerical

characters, up to 63), or Hex (64 characters of 0-9, and

a-f).

Pre-shared

Please input the WPA passphrase here.

Key :

It’s not recommended to use a word that can be found

in a dictionary due to security reason.

After you finish WPA Pre-shared key setting, please click ‘Apply’ button

and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to back to previous setup menu; to continue on other

setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the settings will

take effect (Please wait for about 50 seconds while router is rebooting).

NOTE: Some wireless clients (especially those manufactured before

year 2003) only support WEP or WPA (TKIA) cipher. A driver upgrade

would be needed for those clients to use WPA and WPA2 encryption.

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