12.6. Chapter Essentials
Configuring and troubleshooting wireless connectivity
Understand that wireless connection settings on the Windows 7 computer must match those on the wireless devices. Security is very important with wireless. Windows 7 supports WEP, WPA, and WPA2. WEP should be avoided. WPA2 is the strongest. WPA-Personal and WPA2-Personal use a pre-shared key. WPA-Enterprise and WPA2-Enterprise use an 802.1x server for authentication. WPA2-Enterprise with smart card authentication provides the best protection.
Configuring and troubleshooting remote access
Be aware that Windows 7 supports multiple tunneling protocols. When set to Automatic, it will try to connect in this order: IKEv2, SSTP, PPTP, and L2TP. IKEv2 is supported only with ...
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