The Wireless card groups all the user configurable wireless Access Point (AP) functions. Here you may make settings as follows:

AP Alias

Assigns the AP a unique name

Name

 

Domain

This is more commonly called the Domain Name but is

Name (SSID)

defined in the IEEE 802.11 Wireless Standard as SSID.

 

Stations and APs in the same group must use the same

 

Domain Name

 

 

Secure SSID

• Blocks a connection request without the exact SSID

 

 

• Hides the SSID in outgoing beacon frames. A site

 

survey tool will not find the AP

Transmission

The transmission rate at which the data packets are

Rate

transmitted by the AP. You can set this to Auto select 1 or

 

2Mbps, Fixed 1Mbps, Fixed 2Mbps, Fixed 5.5Mbps, Fixed

 

11Mbps or Full Auto (1 to 11Mbps)

 

 

Basic Rates

This value determines the basic rates used and reported for

 

this BSS by the AP. The highest rate specified will be the

 

rate that the AP will use when transmitting

 

broadcast/multicast and management frames.

 

Available options are: 1 and 2Mbps and All (1, 2, 5.5, and

 

11Mbps)

 

 

Channel

Refer to the Appendix, page 52, for a list of the channels

Number

supported in each regulatory domain

 

 

Regulatory

Identifies the country where the AP is used (see the

Domain

Appendix, page 52). Each Regulatory Domain has defined

 

the channel numbers and transmission power available

 

 

After making any changes, click OK and then click the Reset AP menu item.

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