Connect: You can select the wireless access point you wish to

 

connect here.**

 

SSID: the SSID of all found wireless access points will be

 

shown here. Some wireless access point may hide their

 

SSID, in this case, you have to identify them by their MAC

 

address.

 

MAC Address: If you there are many wireless access points in

 

proximity or some wireless access point hides it’s SSID, you

 

can use MAC address to distinguish them.

 

Signal: Shows the radio signal strength in percent.

 

Channel: Shows the radio channel of this wireless access

 

point.

 

Encryption: Shows the encryption type used by this wireless

 

access point. You must use the same encryption type if you

 

wish to connect to a certain wireless access point. If the

 

wireless access point does not use encryption, ‘Disabled’ will

 

be displayed here.

 

Network Type: Shows the network type of a certain wireless

 

access point (Infrastructure or Adhoc).

 

 

SSID

Input the SSID of the wireless access point you wish to

 

connect. It should be less than 32 alphanumerical characters.

 

When you select a wireless access point above, it’s SSID will

 

be filled in this field automatically. However, if the SSID is not

 

displayed (the wireless access point you selected choose to

 

hide it’s SSID), you have to know it’s SSID and input it here, or

 

you will not be able to connect it.

 

 

Channel

Select the radio channel you wish to use here. When network

 

type is ‘Infrastructure’, the radio channel is auto-selected

 

according to the channel that wireless access point uses. You

 

can only select the channel number when network type is

 

‘Adhoc’.

 

 

Basic Rate

Select the maximum wireless data transfer rate here, from

 

 

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