ZyAIR B-500 Wireless Access Point User’s Guide

 

 

 

Menu 3.5 - Wireless LAN Setup

 

 

ESSID= Wireless

Edit MAC Address Filter= No

 

 

Hide ESSID= No

 

 

Channel ID= CH06 2437MHz

Edit Roaming Configuration= No

 

 

RTS Threshold= 2432

Block Intra-BSS Traffic= No

 

 

Frag. Threshold= 2432

Number of Associated Stations= 32

 

 

WEP Encryption= 64-bit WEP

Output Power= 17dBm

 

 

Default Key= 1

Preamble= Long

 

 

Key1= ********

 

 

 

Key2= ********

 

 

 

Key3= ********

 

 

 

Key4= ********

 

 

 

Authen. Method= Auto

 

 

 

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

 

 

Press Space Bar to Toggle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 12-3 Menu 3.5 Wireless LAN Setup

The following table describes the fields in this menu.

Table 12-2 Menu 3.5 Wireless LAN Setup

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

EXMAPLE

 

 

 

ESSID

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

Wireless

 

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 operating

CH01

 

frequency/channel depending on your particular region.

2412MHz

RTS

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

2432

Threshold

between 0 and 2432.

 

Frag.

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

Encryption

points without any data encryption.

 

 

Select 64-bit WEP or 128-bit WEP to enable data encryption.

 

 

 

 

LAN Setup

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