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The settings you must use are the following:
•
Network Name (SSID)
•
Encryption Key
You rarely need to change these settings. You can use
the default values.
•
Transfer rate:
Automatic
•
Channel:
11
•
Header Length:
Long (preamble)
Network Name
(SSID)
The Network Name (also called SSID) determines which
devices can communicate on your wireless network. To
be on the same network, all devices must have the same
Network Name. When a PC tries to join a wireless
network, it sends its Network Name to the Intel Wireless
Gateway. If the Network Names on both devices match,
the PC is permitted to join. The Network Name is also
called network ID code, SSID (service set identifier), or
ESSID (extended service set identifier).
The gateway has a default Network Name of
“Intel Gateway.” The network name is case sensitive. For
security purposes, we highly recommend you change the
default name. If you have an existing wireless device, you
can give the gateway the same Network Name as your
existing wireless devices, or you can create a new
Network Name and use it on all of your wireless devices.
See
Encryption
Encryption provides additional data security by
converting all of the information that is transmitted over a
wireless network into a form that can be read only by
devices that have the same encryption key. Before
sending information, the device encodes the information
using the key. The receiving device uses the same key to
decode the information. To be on the same network, all
devices must have the same encryption key.
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