Sierra Wireless Overdrive Pro 3G, User Manual

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To change the host name:
1.
Log in to the home page.
2.
Click
Advanced Settings
( ).
3.
Click Wi-Fi > Network or Router > LAN .
4.
In the Hostname field, enter a name for your device.
The name must be 1–15 ASCII characters. Valid characters are:
䡲
a-z
䡲
A-Z
䡲
0-9. Note that the host name cannot be all numbers.
䡲
- (hyphen). Note that the host name cannot start or end with a hyphen.
Setting the Maximum Number of Wi-Fi Users
If your network is having performance issues, you might want to decrease the number of Wi-Fi
users allowed to connect to the device. To do this:
1.
Make sure you’re logged in to the home page.
2.
Click the icon and, in the Connected Users window, click a value in the
Max Wi-Fi
users list.
— or —
Click Advanced Settings > Wi-Fi > Network , and click a value in the Max Number of Users list.
Wi-Fi Channel
The Wi-Fi channel is the active channel of the Wi-Fi access point. If your network is having
performance issues (possibly caused by other Wi-Fi networks in the vicinity using the same
channel), try a different Wi-Fi channel. To use a different Wi-Fi channel:
1.
Log in to the home page.
2.
Click
Advanced Settings > Wi-Fi > Network
.
3.
Click a channel number in the Wi-Fi Channel list, or, to have the device automatically
determine the channel to use, click
Auto
.