Alcatel AST570, User Manual

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'Wireless
Configuration' table
components
4 WLAN Guide - Wireless LAN
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Field Description
SSID The Service Set ID (SSID) allows you to uniquely identify your
AST570 WLAN in the radio environment. This can be useful in
case multiple WLAN networks are present nearby your location.
The default
AST570 SSID is printed on the marking label found
on the bottom of your AST570 . It consists of the word Alcatel"
followed by (directly concatenated) the last six characters of the
AST570 ' Access Point MAC address.
Channel The Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) channel number is
an identifier for the frequency on which your WLAN connectivity
is enabled in the WLAN network.
Changing the default channel number to another value can be
useful in case you know another wireless equipment runs nearby
yours, e.g. another AST570 WLAN network. This way you can
avoid sharing the channel bandwidth with other WLANs by
selecting different channel numbers for concurrent WLANs.
Although the configurable DSSS channel number range is from 1
up to 13, restrictions apply depending on the country where the
AST570 is used:
•
FCC: channels 1 to 11
•
ETSI: channels 1 to 13
WEP
Encryption
This checkbox allows you to enable ( ) or disable the Wired
Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption mechanism the AST570
provides for privacy, i.e. encryption of all wireless frames
migrating from or towards the AST570 access point.
Key Allows to enter manually a fixed 40bits WEP key (in
hexadecimal notation) or will show the generated 40bits WEP
key after clicking
Before proceeding you must write down the entered or generated
key and keep the information on a save place.
Clicking applies the key and will hide it, i.e. the '
Key'
field is filled with a random amount of asterisks. You can NEVER
retrieve the 40bits WEP key from the AST570 once you have
applied it !
Association
Control
This checkbox allows you to enable ( ) or disable association
control of WLAN client adapter based on their MAC address.
Next to WEP encryption which provides privacy for each WLAN
client, the Association Control mechanism controls the
authorization of WLAN clients to join the AST570 WLAN.
Via the 'Access Control' table you can allow or reject WLAN
adapters.