Chapter 2 Wireless Tutorial

Figure 6 AP: Status: WLAN Station Status

2.3 Configuring the Wireless Client

This section describes how to connect the wireless client to a network.

2.3.1 Connecting to a Wireless LAN

The following sections show you how to join a wireless network using the ZyXEL utility, as in the following diagram. The wireless client is labelled C and the access point (ZyXEL Device) is labelled AP. D is the broadband modem.

Figure 7 Connecting to a Wireless LAN

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There are three ways to connect the client to an access point.

•Configure nothing and leave the wireless client to automatically scan for and connect to any available network that has no wireless security configured.

•Manually connect to a network.

•Configure a profile to have the wireless client automatically connect to a specific network or peer computer.

This example illustrates how to manually connect your wireless client to an access point (AP) which is configured for WPA-PSK security and connected to the Internet. Before you connect to the access point, you must know its Service Set IDentity (SSID) and WPA-PSK pre-shared key. In this example, the SSID is “SSID_Example3” and the pre-shared key is “ThisismyWPA-PSKpre-sharedkey”.

After you install the ZyXEL utility and then insert the wireless client, follow the steps below to connect to a network using the Site Survey screen.

 

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