ZyAIR B-2000 Wireless LAN Gateway with 4-Port Switch

notify all other stations to defer transmission. It will also confirm with the requesting station that the AP has reserved it for the time frame of the requested transmission.

The RTS function will be activated if the packet size exceeds the value you set. It is highly recommended that you set the value ranging from 0 to 2432.

Enabling the RTS Threshold causes redundant network overhead that could negatively affect the throughput performance instead of providing a remedy.

Fragmentation Threshold

Fragmentation improves the efficiency when high traffic flows along in the wireless network.

WEP

As the first line of protection against wireless network intrusion, the ZyAIR provides the standard WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) for data encryption. However, there may be a significant degradation of the data throughput on the wireless link when WEP is enabled. See section on Wireless Security Setup for more information about configuring WEP data encryption.

3.11.2 Wireless LAN Setup

Use menu 3.5 to set up your ZyAIR as the wireless access point. To edit menu 3.5, enter 3 from the main menu to display Menu 3 – LAN Setup. When menu 3 appears, press 5 and then press [ENTER] to display Menu 3.5 – Wireless LAN Setup as shown next.

Menu 3.5 - Wireless LAN Setup

ESSID= Wireless

Hide ESSID= No

Channel ID= CH01 2412MHz

RTS Threshold= 2432

Frag. Threshold= 2432

WEP= Disable

Default Key= N/A

Key1= N/A

Key2= N/A

Key3= N/A

Key4= N/A

Edit MAC Address Filter= No

Edit Roaming Configuration= Yes

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

Figure 3-9 Menu 3.5 - Wireless LAN Setup

The following table describes the fields in this screen.

Internet Access

3-15