P-334U/P-335U User’s Guide

Figure 34 Wireless General

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

Table 23 Wireless 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 whether

 

you are using A or B/G frequency band and the country you are in. This field is not

 

available when you select Auto Channel Selection.

 

Refer to the Connection Wizard chapter for more information on channels.

 

 

Auto Channel

Select the check box to have the ZyXEL Device automatically scan for and select a

Selection

channel which is not used by another device.

Operating

This displays the channel the ZyXEL Device is currently using.

Channel

 

Apply

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

 

 

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.

4.3.1 No Security

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

Chapter 4 Wireless LAN

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