P-2302HW/HWL-P1 Series User’s Guide

Figure 39 Wireless LAN: General

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

Table 34 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.

 

Note: If you are configuring the ZyXEL Device from a computer

 

connected to the wireless LAN and you change the ZyXEL

 

Device’s SSID or WEP settings, you will lose your wireless

 

connection when you press Apply to confirm. You must then

 

change the wireless settings of your computer to match the

 

ZyXEL Device’s new settings.

 

 

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

If two wireless networks overlap, they should use a different channel.

Selection

Like radio stations or television channels, each wireless network uses a specific

 

channel, or frequency, to send and receive information.

 

Select a channel from the drop-down list box.

 

 

Security Mode

See the following sections for more details about this field.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyXEL Device.

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to reload the previous configuration for this screen.

 

 

5.4.1 No Security

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

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