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Do any products support Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) over a WDS bridged connection?

April 26, 2017Bridged connection products protected support WDS wi-fi wpa

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Do any products support Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) over a WDS bridged connection?

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No. In general, you won’t find products that support WPA through a WDS-bridged connection. The reason is that WDS uses MAC addresses to communicate, and WPA is designed to encrypt the MAC addresses. [Thnx to Buffalo Technology for their help on this question.

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No. In general, you won’t find products that support WPA through a WDS-bridged connection. The reason is that WDS uses MAC addresses to communicate, and WPA is designed to encrypt the MAC addresses.