Setting Up WLAN in Windows XP SP2 (Secured WPA) 

Pre-requisite:

  1. Wireless LAN adapter must support WPA. Please refer to respective manufacturer.
  2. Prior to this setup attempt, user system has been known to be authenticated successfully with NTU domain via LAN network. A user profile is created automatically upon successful authentication via LAN.

Advantages:

 

  1. Wireless traffic is encrypted and is more secured compared to that of Open web-authentication (i.e. SSID: NTUWL). Strong encryption (AES) is used to ensure high data security in network traffic over the air.
  2. User will need to login once to his/her system without the needs to re-enter credential to access Internet.
  3. User systems will be able to roam and join the NTU wireless network automatically whenever his/her systems are in the wireless coverage range without the hassle of manual re-login.

Setting Up:

  1. Click on Start button    and select. Type in services.msc as shown below.



  2. The menu  is opened as shown below. Ensure the Wireless Zero Configuration status is Started and Startup Type is Automatic as shown below.



  3. If the Status and Startup Type are different from the highlighted above, double-click the Wireless Zero Configuration.

  4. Select Startup type Automatic and click  to start the service.



    Click  to proceed.

  5. Close the menu  by clicking

  6. Open the Control Panel as the following. Click Network Connections icon.



  7. Right click the highlighted Wireless Network Connection and click Properties



  8. The Wireless Network Connection Properties pop-up is displayed as the following.



    Select tab .

  9. Check on  Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings and choose  under Preferred Networks.



  10. Enter network name (SSID) NTUSECURE in uppercase. Select Network Authentication WPA and Data encryption AES.



    Click tab  to proceed.

  11. Select EAP type Protected EAP (PEAP)

     



    Click  to proceed.

  12. Uncheck Validate Server certificate. Select Authentication Method Secure password (EAP-MSCHAP v2). Check  Enable Fast Reconnect.



    Click  to proceed.

  13. Check Automatically use my Windows logon name and password (and domain if any).



    Click   to close the EAP MSCHAPv2 Properties pop-up windows. Click   again in Protected EAP Properties pop-up windows.

  14. Click tab  to proceed. Check Connect when this network is in range.



    Click  to proceed.

  15. The profile NTUSECURE is displayed as the following.



    Click  to proceed to close the Wireless Network Connection Properties pop-up windows.

  16. Double-click   icon at desktop right-hand-side bottom taskbar. A successful connection to NTUSECURE, the status is Connected as displayed in the following.



    Click  to verify.

  17. The following is displayed for a successful connection.

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