WRVS4400N User Guide 47
Wireless Tab
Setting Up and Configuring the Router
Wireless Channel—Select the appropriate channel to be used between your Wireless Router
and your client devices. The default is channel 6. You can also select Auto so that your Wireless
Router will select the channel with the lowest amount of wireless interference while the system
is booting up. Auto channel selection will start when you click the Save Settings button, and it
will take several seconds to scan through all the channels to find the best channel. For the
Wireless-N 40MHz channel option (see Wireless - Advanced Wireless Settings Tab), the Wireless
Router will automatically select the adjacent 20MHz channel to combine them into a wider
channel.
Multiple BSSID—Select Enabled or Disabled as required.
SSID Name—The SSID is the unique name shared between all devices in a wireless network. It
is case-sensitive, must not exceed 32 alphanumeric characters, and may be any keyboard
character. Make sure this setting is the same for all devices in your wireless network. The default
SSID name is linksys-n.
SSID Broadcast—Allows the SSID to be broadcast on your network. You may want to enable
this function while configuring your network, but make sure that you disable it when you are
finished. With this enabled, someone could easily obtain the SSID information with site survey
software or Windows XP and gain unauthorized access to your network. Click Enabled to
broadcast the SSID to all wireless devices in range. Click Disabled to increase network security
and prevent the SSID from being seen on networked PCs. The default is Enabled in order to
help users configure their network before use.
Change these settings as described here and click Save Settings to apply your changes, or click
Cancel Changes to cancel your changes. Help information is displayed on the right-hand side
of the screen, and click More for additional details.
Wireless Security
Change the Wireless Router’s wireless security settings on this screen.
Wireless Security
Security Mode—Select the wireless security mode you want to use, WEP, WPA-Personal,
WPA2-Personal, WPA2-Personal Mixed, WPA-Enterprise, WPA2-Enterprise, or WPA2-
Enterprise Mixed. (WPA stands for Wi-Fi Protected Access, which is a security standard
stronger than WEP encryption and forward compatible with IEEE 802.11e. WEP stands for Wired
Equivalent Privacy, Enterprise refers to using RADIUS server for authentication, while RADIUS
stands for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service.) Refer to the appropriate instructions
below after you select the Authentication Type and SSID Interoperability settings. To disable
wireless security completely, select Disabled. The default is Disabled.
Wireless Isolation (between SSID w/o VLAN)—When disabled, wireless PCs that are
associated to the same network name (SSID), can see and transfer files between each other. By
enabling this feature, Wireless PCs will not be able to see each other. This feature is very useful
when setting up a wireless hotspot location. The default is Disabled.
The following section describes the detailed options for each Security Mode.