NETGEAR DGND3300 user manual Restricting Access to Your Modem Router, Enable Wireless Router Radio

RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Modem Router DGND3300 User Manual

Restricting Access to Your Modem Router

You can use the Advanced Wireless Settings screen to enable or disable the wireless router radio and the SSID broadcast. From the main menu, select Advanced Wireless Settings to display the following screen:

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•Enable Wireless Router Radio.

You can completely turn off the wireless portion of the modem router. For example, if you use your notebook computer to wirelessly connect to your modem router, and you take a business trip, you can turn off the wireless portion of the modem router while you are traveling. Other members of your household who use computers connected to the modem router via Ethernet cables can still use the modem router. To do this, clear the Enable Wireless Access Point check box on the Advanced Wireless Settings screen, and then click Apply.

•Enable SSID Broadcast. Clear this check box to disable broadcast of the SSID, so that only devices that know the correct SSID can connect. Disabling SSID broadcast nullifies the wireless network discovery feature of some products such as Windows XP.

Note: The SSID of any wireless access adapters must match the SSID you configure in the modem router. If they do not match, you will not get a wireless connection to the modem router.

The Fragmentation Threshold, CTS/RTS Threshold, and Preamble Mode options are reserved for wireless testing and advanced configuration only. Do not change these settings.

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