Philips SL50i manual Network View Settings, Chg Settings Chg Settings Wireless, Network Wizard

NETWORK

VIEW SETTINGS

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12.3.1 Network menu

The Network menu gives you access to network and wireless settings. See below for an overview.

Note: If you just want to see what the settings are, open View Network Settings or View Wireless; not Change Network Settings or Change Wireless.

	View Settings
	IP Settings	For viewing the Network settings.
1 4	Wireless	For viewing the Wireless settings, including the physical

NIC MAC Address you may sometimes need for identifying the Wireless network adapter of the SL50i. Go to Signal Level to check the wireless signal quality.

NETWORK WIZARD

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Starts the Connection Wizard.

NETWORK

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	IP Settings

Network Mode Choose Dynamic for automatic network

CHG SETTINGS

CHG SETTINGS

WIRELESS

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	configuration by your network host.
	(preferred).
	Choose Static (IP) for manually entering a
	static network configuration.
IP Address, Netmask,	Only Static (IP) requires you to fill in values
Gateway, DNS 1 and	for IP Address, Netmask, Gateway address,
DNS 2	and DNS address.
	See next chapter for an explanation.
Proxy Status,	First, select whether or not to use a proxy:
Proxy Address and	Proxy Status Disable/Enable.Then you may
Proxy Port	enter a Proxy Address and a Proxy Port.
	These may be provided by your Internet
	Service Provider (ISP).
Wireless Mode	Choose whether your wireless network has
	a wireless base station (Infrastructure) or is
	a peer-to-peer network (Ad-Hoc).
Wireless SSID	Enter the name (SSID) of the wireless
(Network Name)	network you want to join.
	Note: the SSID is case-sensitive, meaning that
	‘philips’ is not the same as ‘PHILIPS’ or
	‘Philips’.
Channel No	Choose one of the available WiFi channels
	in your region. (Select 0 for automatic
	channel assignment.)
Encryption	First, select whether or not to use wireless
	network encryption: WEP Status Off/On.
	Then, you may enter up to four WEP Keys
	to choose from. Enter five ASCII or 10 HEX
	characters to use a
	64-bit WEP-key; enter 13 ASCII or 26 HEX
	characters to use a 128-bit WEP-key.The
	number of characters determines the type
	of key you use. Finally, choose which of the
	four keys to use:
	WEP Transmit Key.
	Important:You must use the same
	encryption key throughout your wireless
	network.
WPA Pass	First check that every wireless device on
	your network has WPA capabilities.Then,
	select whether or not to use wireless
	network encryption: WPA Status On/Off.
	Then, you may enter your WPA passphrase.