Chapter 6 Wireless LAN

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

Table 26 Network > Wireless LAN > General

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

WLAN STA

This section is available only when the NBG-418N is in universal repeater mode. This shows

Information

the wireless and security settings of the selected AP wireless network.

 

 

SSID

This displays the Service Set IDentity of the wireless device to which you are connecting.

 

 

Security Mode

This displays the type of security configured on the wireless device to which you are

 

connecting.

 

 

Operating

This displays the channel used by the wireless device to which you are connecting.

Channel

 

 

 

WLAN AP

Use this section to configure the wireless settings between the NBG-418Nand its wireless

Information /

clients.

Wireless Setup

 

 

 

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 option for the NBG-418N to automatically choose the channel with the least

Selection

interference. Deselect this option if you wish to manually select the channel using the

 

Channel Selection field.

 

 

Operating

This displays the channel the NBG-418N is currently using.

Channel

 

 

 

Channel Width

Select whether the NBG-418N uses a wireless channel width of 20MHz, 40MHz or Auto

 

20/40MHz. A standard 20MHz 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 40MHz channels, select Auto 20/40MHz to allow the NBG-418N to

 

adjust the channel bandwidth automatically.

 

 

Security

Use this section to configure the wireless security between the NBG-418N and its wireless

 

clients.

 

 

Security Mode

Select Static WEP, WPA-PSKor WPA2-PSKto add security on this wireless 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 6.4.2 and 6.4.3 sections. Or you can select No Security to allow any client to

 

associate this network without authentication.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the NBG-418N.

 

 

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.

6.4.1 No Security

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

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