Setting Access Control in Airport Utility

Hello everyone,
I'm hoping that someone can confirm that setting access control to Local in the Airport Utility, and specifying computer addresses, is an optional layer of security over and above a network and base station password. In other words, if I leave access control set to Not Enabled, will I still have password protection for my wireless network?
Regards,
Gregory

Thanks for reply, but I'm afraid I don't understand, and I apologize for my inexperience. What do you mean when you say that I should be more concerned that both access control and other security +should not+ be done? And by "... check on its either one or the other," did you mean check whether it's one or the other?
In any case, page 58 of the Designing Apple Networks manual doesn't say anything about local access control that the one-line description under the Access Control tab in the Airport Utility doesn't already say, namely, that access can be restricted to particular computers. Well, that's clearly a good thing as long as you don't have visitors or collaborators frequently dropping by who need access to your network. I think it's reasonable to assume that network and base station password protection operate independently of access control based on Apple IDs.

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