Chapter 6 Wireless LAN

 

 

 

 

Table 12 Wireless LAN > Wireless Settings: Repeater (continued)

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

Wireless Mode

If you are in the Wireless LAN > Wireless Settings or Wireless LAN > Wireless

 

 

Settings- 2.4G screen, you can select from the following:

 

 

802.11b/g to allow both IEEE802.11b and IEEE802.11g compliant WLAN devices to

 

 

associate with the NWA. The transmission rate of your NWA might be reduced.

 

 

802.11b/g/n to allow IEEE802.11b, IEEE802.11g and IEEE802.11n compliant WLAN

 

 

devices to associate with the NWA. The transmission rate of the NWA might be

 

 

reduced.

 

 

802.11n to allow only IEEE802.11n compliant WLAN devices to associate with the

 

 

NWA.

 

 

If you are in the Wireless LAN > Wireless Settings- 5G screen, you can select from

 

 

the following:

 

 

802.11a/n to allow IEEE802.11a and IEEE802.11n compliant WLAN devices to

 

 

associate with the NWA.

 

 

802.11a to allow only IEEE802.11a compliant WLAN devices to associate with the

 

 

NWA.

 

 

802.11n to allow only IEEE802.11n compliant WLAN devices to associate with the

 

 

NWA.

 

 

802.11a/n/ac to allow IEEE802.11a, IEEE802.11n and IEEE802.11ac compliant

 

 

WLAN devices to associate with the NWA. The transmission rate of the NWA might be

 

 

reduced.

 

 

 

 

Channel

Select the operating frequency/channel depending on your particular region from the

 

 

drop-down list box.

 

 

 

 

Channel Width

This field displays only when you select 802.11n, 802.11a/n, 802.11b/g/n or

 

 

802.11a/n/ac in the Wireless Mode field.

 

 

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 300Mbps. However, not all

 

 

devices support 40MHz channels.

 

 

Select the channel bandwidth you want to use for your wireless network.

 

 

It is recommended that you select 20/40MHz. This allows the NWA to adjust the channel

 

 

bandwidth depending on network conditions.

 

 

Select 20MHz if you want to lessen radio interference with other wireless devices in your

 

 

neighborhood or the wireless clients do not support channel bonding.

 

 

 

Repeater Settings

The repeater function allows the NWA in root AP or repeater mode to set up a wireless connection between it and another NWA in root AP or repeater mode.

Note: Repeater security is independent of the security settings between the NWA and any wireless clients.

Local MAC

Local MAC Address is the MAC address of your NWA.

Address

 

 

 

Repeater SSID

Select the SSID profile you want to use for repeater connections with an AP or repeater or

Profile

regular wireless connections with wireless clients.

 

Note: You can only configure None, WPA-PSKor WPA2-PSKsecurity mode for the SSID

 

used by a repeater connection.

 

 

Root MAC

Specify the peer device’s MAC address. The peer device can be a NWA in either root AP

Address

mode or repeater mode.

 

 

Advanced Settings

 

 

 

Beacon Interval

When a wirelessly network device sends a beacon, it includes with it a beacon interval.

 

This specifies the time period before the device sends the beacon again. The interval tells

 

receiving devices on the network how long they can wait in lowpower mode before waking

 

up to handle the beacon. A high value helps save current consumption of the access point.

 

 

 

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