During the installation of a wireless router at a small business, it is noted that some of the wireless clients support WPA2 and some of the clients support WPA. Which of the following encryptions…

Setting the router to WPA provides backward compatibility for all clients: WPA-only clients can authenticate normally, and WPA2-capable clients will also negotiate and connect at WPA. Selecting WPA2 exclusively would lock out any client device that does not support WPA2, breaking connectivity for those users.

Configuring the router for WPA2 only would prevent clients that only support WPA from associating with the wireless network, causing connectivity failures for those devices.

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a deprecated and cryptographically broken security protocol that would represent a significant security downgrade from both WPA and WPA2.

TKIP is the encryption cipher algorithm used within WPA and is not an independent router security mode that can be selected in place of WPA or WPA2.