Week 1 Wireless Concepts Report
DeVry University
NETW360: Wireless Technologies and Services

Hands on Lab Wireless Concepts
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Date: 1/24/2014

Configuring a Wireless Access Point

In this Project we were assigned to configure an access point and test the results. Pictured in the figure below is one of the first steps in regards to setup. We chose an easy router name of Group 4 NETW360 to make things easy. Following this logic we chose an automatic configuration Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). What DHCP does is that it provides network configuration parameters, such as IP addresses, to DHCP clients automatically versus manually.

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Wireless Setup

The next step after the basic setup was to configure the wireless setting for our access point. We had to choose a Service Set Identifier (SSID) name which essentially is the public name of our wireless network. In keeping things easy we chose Group4 NETW360. The wireless channel was left on auto due to most wireless end devices will auto-detect and adjust their channel numbers to match that of the router. Also we didn’t want to hide the SSID so we decided to broadcast is by enabling the option, this allows devices to easily find our particular network.

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Network Connection
In order for us to statically configure the router the necessary information was found by accessing the network connection. Below in the figure are the results.

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Wireless Security

Choosing the right security is imperative when setting up network connections. Linksys router supports four of the most commonly used wireless security modes which you can choose from: WEP, WPA Personal, WPA2 Personal, and WPA2/WPA Mixed Mode. Here’s a table that best compares the different security types according to Linksys.

Security | Rank | Number of