Prestige 2602HW Series User’s Guide

Figure 24 Wireless LAN

The following table describes the fields in this screen.

Table 14 Wireless LAN

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Enable Wireless

The wireless LAN is turned off by default, before you enable the wireless LAN you

LAN

should configure some security by setting MAC filters and/or 802.1x security;

 

otherwise your wireless LAN will be vulnerable upon enabling it. Select the check

 

box to enable the wireless LAN.

ESSID

The ESSID (Extended Service Set Identification) is a unique name to identify the

 

Prestige in the wireless LAN. Wireless stations associating to the Prestige must

 

have the same ESSID.

 

Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 characters).

 

 

Hide ESSID

Select Yes to hide the ESSID in so a station cannot obtain the ESSID through

 

passive scanning.

 

Select No to make the ESSID visible so a station can obtain the ESSID through

 

passive scanning.

Channel ID

The radio frequency used by IEEE 802.11b wireless devices is called a channel.

 

Select a channel from the drop-down list box.

 

 

RTS/CTS

The RTS (Request To Send) threshold (number of bytes) for enabling RTS/CTS

Threshold

handshake. Data with its frame size larger than this value will perform the RTS/CTS

 

handshake. Setting this attribute to be larger than the maximum MSDU (MAC

 

service data unit) size turns off the RTS/CTS handshake. Setting this attribute to

 

zero turns on the RTS/CTS handshake.

 

Enter a value between 0 and 2432.

 

 

Fragmentation

The threshold (number of bytes) for the fragmentation boundary for directed

Threshold

messages. It is the maximum data fragment size that can be sent.

 

Enter a value between 256 and 2432.

 

 

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