COMPONENTS OF WLAN NETWORK

WLAN NETWORK

COMPONENTS OF WLAN NETWORK

repeaters: used for long distance communications.

Hubs: Hubs are multiport repeaters actually.

There are three types of hubs: There are three types of hubspassive, active, intelligent

Passive: serves only as a point of physical connection.

Active: energy used to amplify the incoming signal before passing to the other ports.

Intelligent: are called "smart hubs". These devices basically function as hubs assets, but also include a microprocessor chip and diagnostic capabilities

Bridges: are used to connect network segments

Switches: is sometimes described as a multiport bridge but with more entries

STEPS FOR CREATE A WLAN NETWORK

Light on the WLAN router

Enter router configuration to place the ESSID and channel.

For the first time, and if the PC is old (over two years) to configure WEP security policy, authorization and encryption.

After connecting all our computers to the router, change the policy to WPA-PSK, if for some reason a computer connects to enter the password, the device does not support this encryption policy, change it to WEP 128bit key with many digits.

Political WEP 64bit and 128bit WEP is the most used being supported by all devices WIRELESS.

I have not talked about the 4 possible is MAC, place the mask of each computer on the router, because that option is very laborious to manage and one of the most easily accessible from the outside with the WEP (cracked policy or use the WLAN from outside).

Procedure to improve security in a wireless network

Some things to improve a wireless network are put off the wireless network and only have wired mode active, so no one can access your internet and when you turn off the wireless so no one will find your network, other things to protect it is to pass only the devices that you want this is done with the Mac of each of the devices.

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