CHAPTER FIVE - CONECTIVITY
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Wireless Information Page
The most informative part of the Network
Status Monitor becomes visible on the
Wireless Information page. The page permits
you to set a preferred network configuration,
and to configure the behavior of WZC itself.
The Wireless Information page also shows
the wireless LAN devices being within range
in its list window – a
network view.
The WZC
updates the list in the network view on a
regular basis, which is based on the beacon
frames the WLAN adapter has received within
the refreshing period of the network view.
The network view gives two different
approaches to the wireless LAN configuration
as follows:
1. By tapping on the
‘Add New …’
list item in the network view
2. By tapping on the network name (SSID) shown in the list
Hint:
As you specify wireless networking parameters such as
authentication and encryption to join your PL3000 to the desired service
set (SSID) you make a ‘preferred network’ of that SSID.
Status
field on the page tells connection state of the wireless LAN adapter.
Signal
field on the page expresses the signal strength/quality the WLAN
adapter sees from the other end of the established wireless link.
The checked
‘Notify when new network available’
enables (unchecked
disables) the Network Status Monitor to appear on the screen, for example, after
the warm-boot, provided that you have not specified the preferred network.
If the ‘Notify when new network available’ checkbox is checked, the
appearance of the Network Status Monitor window does not necessarily happen
when the device awake from the suspended state. In that case, the stress is placed
on the word ‘new’, that is, only if the WZC has received a new SSID broadcast
message by sweeping from channel to channel, it shows up its Network Status
Monitor as long as there is no preferred network(s) assigned to the WLAN
interface. The WZC retains the found SSID information over the sleep/awakening
(suspend/resume) cycle. On the other hand, if your PL3000 is up and running and
it has a working wireless LAN association, the appearance of a new SSID does not
get the Network Status Monitor with its Wireless Information page to show up on
the screen.
Despite the fact that assigning a preferred network(s) to the WLAN interface
has an influence on the pop-up feature of the Network Status Monitor, the
assigned, preferred network does not hinder the Network Status Monitor from