Prestige 334W User’s Guide

Menu 3.5 - Wireless LAN Setup

ESSID= Wireless

Hide ESSID= No

Channel ID= CH06 2437MHz RTS Threshold= 2432 Frag. Threshold= 2432 WEP Encryption= Disable

Default Key= N/A Key1= N/A Key2= N/A Key3= N/A Key4= N/A Authen. Method= N/A

Edit MAC Address Filter= No Edit Roaming Configuration= No Preamble= Long

802.11 Mode= Mixed

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

Figure 23-6 Menu 3.5 Wireless LAN Setup

The following table describes the fields in this menu.

Table 23-4 Menu 3.5 Wireless LAN Setup

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLE

 

 

 

 

The ESSID (Extended Service Set IDentity) identifies the AP to which the

Wireless

ESSID

wireless stations associate. Wireless stations associating to the AP must

 

have the same ESSID. Enter a descriptive name of up to 32 printable 7-bit

 

 

 

 

ASCII characters.

 

 

 

 

Hide ESSID

Press [SPACE BAR] and select Yes to hide the ESSID in the outgoing data

No

 

frame so an intruder cannot obtain the ESSID through passive scanning.

 

Channel ID

Press [SPACE BAR] to select a channel. This allows you to set the

CH06

operating frequency/channel depending on your particular region.

2437MHz

 

RTS

Setting this attribute to zero turns on the RTS/CTS handshake. Enter a value

2432

Threshold

between 0 and 2432.

 

Fragment

This is the maximum data fragment size that can be sent. Enter a value

2432

Threshold

between 256 and 2432.

 

WEP

Select Disable to allow wireless stations to communicate with the access

Disable

 

points without any data encryption.

 

Menu 3 LAN Setup

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