Wireless 802.11n APs and WPA Authentication

Note

If you configure a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) Service to use either WEP or TKIP authentication, any wireless 802.11n AP associated to a VNS using that service will be limited to legacy AP performance rates.

If a VNS is configured to use WPA authentication, any wireless 802.11n AP within that VNS will do the following:

• WPA v.1 — If WPA v.1 is enabled, the wireless AP will advertise only TKIP as an available encryption protocol.
• WPA v.2 — If WPA v.2 is enabled, the wireless AP will do the following:
  • If WPA v.1 is enabled, the wireless AP will advertise TKIP as an available encryption protocol.
    

    Note

    If WPA v.2 is enabled, the wireless AP does not support the Auto option.
  • If WPA v.1 is disabled, the wireless AP will advertise the encryption cipher AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).
    

    Note

    The security encryption for some network cards must not to be set to WEP or TKIP to achieve a data rate beyond 54 Mbps.