ZyXEL Communications NBG-417N manual No Security, WPA2-PSK are available in this field

Chapter 7 Wireless LAN

The following table describes the general wireless LAN labels in this screen.

Table 24 Network > Wireless LAN > General

LABEL	DESCRIPTION
Enable	Click the check box to activate wireless LAN.
Wireless LAN
Name(SSID)	(Service Set IDentity) The SSID identifies the Service Set with which a
	wireless station is associated. Wireless stations associating to the access
	point (AP) must have the same SSID. Enter a descriptive name (up to 32
	printable 7-bit ASCII characters) for the wireless LAN.
Hide SSID	Select this check box to hide the SSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a
	station cannot obtain the SSID through scanning using a site survey tool.
Channel	Set the operating frequency/channel depending on your particular region.
Selection	Select a channel from the drop-down list box. The options vary depending
	on the frequency band and the country you are in.
	Refer to the Connection Wizard chapter for more information on channels.
	This option is only available if Auto Channel Selection is disabled.
Auto Channel	Select this check box for the NBG-417N to automatically choose the
Selection	channel with the least interference. Deselect this check box if you wish to
	manually select the channel using the Channel Section field.
Operating	This displays the channel the NBG-417N is currently using.
Channel
Channel	Select whether the NBG-417N uses a wireless channel width of 20 or 40
Width	MHz. A standard 20 MHz channel offers transfer speeds of up to 150Mbps
	whereas a 40MHz channel uses two standard channels and offers speeds
	of up to 300 Mbps. Because not all devices support 40 MHz channels,
	select Auto 20/40MHz to allow the NBG-417N to adjust the channel
	bandwidth automatically.
Security	Select WPA-PSKor WPA2-PSKto add security on this wireless
Mode	network. The wireless clients which want to associate to this network
	must have same wireless security settings as this device. After you select
	to use a security, additional options appears in this screen. See 7.4.2 and
	7.4.3 sections. Or you can select No Security to allow any client to
	associate this network without authentication.

	Note: If you enable the WPS function, only No Security, WPA-PSK
	and WPA2-PSKare available in this field.
Apply	Click Apply to save your changes back to the NBG-417N.
Reset	Click Reset to reload the previous configuration for this screen.

See the rest of this chapter for information on the other labels in this screen.

7.4.1 No Security

Select No Security to allow wireless stations to communicate with the access points without any data encryption.

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