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WPA-PSK is far superior to WEP and provides stronger protection for two reasons: the process used to generate the encryption key is very rigorous, and the rekeying (or key changing) is done very quickly. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is an outdated encryption that, due to the ease of cracking the encryption key, is not considered a good method of securing a wireless access point. Wireless device manufacturers typically provide their own wireless client manager with the hardware setup. Microsoft provides a built-in wireless configuration manager called Windows Wireless Zero Configuration. These wireless networks provide ease of access to the network for mobile users, increasing productivity while reducing infrastructure costs.Ī wireless client associates with a wireless network by connecting to the access point and providing the required encryption data if necessary.

Wireless Access Points (WAPs) connect traditional wired networks to wireless clients. Devices that have wireless interface cards will be able to interface with available wireless networks in range cell phone carriers, also using radio waves although at different frequencies (824–94 MHz) than the 802.11 standard (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz) ( Horton, 2008), can also deliver access to Internet services either through phones, laptops, etc. Whether the wireless access point serves also as a router just depends on which type of WAP is used. The type of wireless interface cards (b, g, or n) that these transmitters contain will determine how much and how far the wireless network extends or broadcasts. The 802.11 standard designates the radio frequencies used and wireless access points (WAPs) serve as the connection point for both sending out and receiving wireless radio signals that then are physically joined to an organization's LAN. Wireless access points are in fact radio transmitters and represent a node, just like a computer, on a local area network (LAN). Chow, Timothy Bucknall, in Library Technology and User Services, 2012 Wireless access points and routers