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Professional Access Point
Administrator Guide
Information provided for neighbouring access points is described in the following table:
Field
Description
MAC Address | Shows the MAC address of the neighbouring access point. |
| A MAC address is a hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a |
| network. |
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Beacon Int. | Shows the Beacon interval being used by this access point. |
| Beacon frames are transmitted by an access point at regular intervals to |
| announce the existence of the wireless network. The default behaviour is to |
| send a beacon frame once every 100 milliseconds (or 10 per second). |
| The Beacon Interval is set on Advanced menu’s Radio Settings page. (See |
| “Radio” on page 129.) |
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Type | Indicates the type of device: |
| • AP indicates the neighbouring device is an access point that supports the |
| IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Framework in Infrastructure Mode. |
| • Ad hoc indicates a neighbouring station running in |
| to |
| traditional access point. |
| ing Framework also referred to as |
| Basic Service Set (IBSS). |
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SSID | The Service Set Identifier (SSID) for the access point. |
| The SSID is an alphanumeric string of up to 32 characters that uniquely identi- |
| fies a wireless local area network. It is also referred to as the Network Name. |
| The SSID is set in Basic Settings (see “Basic Settings” on page 35) or on the |
| Advanced menu’s Wireless Settings page (see “Wireless Settings” on |
| page 97). |
| A Guest network and an Internal network running on the same access point |
| must always have two different network names. |
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Privacy | Indicates whether there is any security on the neighbouring device. |
| • Off indicates that the Security mode on the neighbouring device is set to |
| None (no security). |
| • On indicates that the neighbouring device has security in place. |
| Access point security is configured on the Advanced menu’s Security page. |
| For more information on security settings, see “Security” on page 101. |
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WPA | Indicates whether WPA security is on or off for this access point. |
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Band | Indicates the IEEE 802.11 mode being used on this access point (IEEE |
| 802.11b or IEEE 802.11g). |
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