ProSafe Premium 3 x 3 Dual-Band Wireless-N Access Point WNDAP620

5.Specify the remaining wireless settings as explained the following table:

Table 7. Basic 5 GHz band wireless settings

Setting

Descriptions

 

 

 

Wireless Network Name

Enter a 32-character (maximum) service set identifier (SSID); the characters are

(SSID)

case-sensitive. The default is NETGEAR_11na. The SSID assigned to a wireless

 

device needs to match the wireless access point’s SSID for the wireless device

 

to communicate with the wireless access point. If the SSIDs do not match, you

 

do not get a wireless connection to the wireless access point.

Wireless On-Off Status

This is a nonconfigurable field that shows the status of the wireless scheduler.

 

For more information, see Schedule the Wireless Radio to Be Turned Off on

 

page 61.

 

Broadcast Wireless

Select the Yes radio button to enable the wireless access point to broadcast its

Network Name (SSID)

SSID, allowing wireless stations that have a null (blank) SSID to adopt the

 

wireless access point’s SSID. Yes is the default setting. To prevent the SSID

 

from being broadcast, select the No radio button.

Channel / Frequency

From the drop-down list, select the channel you wish to use on your wireless

 

LAN. The wireless channels and frequencies depend on the country and

 

wireless mode. The default setting is Auto.

 

Note: It should not be necessary to change the wireless channel unless you

 

experience interference (indicated by lost connections or slow data transfers). If

 

this happens, you might want to experiment with different channels to see which

 

is the best. For more information, see the guidelines following this table.

 

Note: For more information about available channels and frequencies, see

 

Technical Specifications on page 139.

11na mode only

MCS Index / Data

From the drop-down list, select a Modulation and Coding

 

Rate

Scheme (MCS) index and transmit data rate for the wireless

Note: For most

 

network. The default setting is Best. For a list of all options

networks, the default

 

that you can select from in 11na mode, see Factory Default

settings work fine.

 

Settings on page 142.

 

 

 

 

Channel Width

From the drop-down list, select a channel width. The options

 

 

are Dynamic 20/40 MHz, 20 MHz, and 40 MHz. The default is

 

 

Dynamic 20/40 MHz. A wider channel improves the

 

 

performance, but some legacy devices can operate only in

 

 

either 20 MHz or 40 MHz.

 

 

 

 

Guard Interval

From the drop-down list, select the guard interval to protect

 

 

transmissions from interference. The default is Auto, or you

 

 

can select Long - 800 ns. Some legacy devices can operate

 

 

only with a long guard interval.

 

 

 

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