Chapter 9 Wireless
NBG7510 User’s Guide
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9.2.1 No Security
Select
No Security
to allow wireless stations to communicate with the access points without any data
encryption or authentication.
Note: If you do not enable any
WiFi
security on your Zyxel Device, your network is accessible to
any wireless networking device that is within range.
Bandwidth
Select whether the Zyxel Device uses a wireless channel width of
20MHz
,
40mHz
,
20/40MHz
,
20/
40/80MHz
or
20/40/80/160MHz
.
A standard 20 MHz channel offers transfer speeds of up to 150 Mbps whereas a 40 MHz channel
uses two standard channels and offers speeds of up to 300 Mbps.
40 MHz (channel bonding or dual channel) bonds two adjacent radio channels to increase
throughput. The wireless clients must also support 40 MHz. It is often better to use the 20 MHz
setting in a location where the environment hinders the wireless signal.
An 80 MHz channel groups adjacent 40 MHz channels into pairs to increase bandwidth even
higher.
Select
20MHz
if you want to lessen radio interference with other wireless devices in your
neighborhood or the wireless clients do not support channel bonding.
Because not all devices support 40 MHz and/or 160 MHz channels, select
20/40MHz
or
20/40/80/
160MHz
to allow the Zyxel Device to adjust the channel bandwidth automatically.
Control
Sideband
This is available for some regions when you select a specific channel and set the
Bandwidth
field
to
40MHz
or
20/40MHz
. Set whether the control channel (set in the
Channel
field) should be in
the
Lower
or
Upper
range of channel bands.
Wireless/WiFi Network Settings
Wireless/WiFi
Network Name
The SSID (Service Set IDentity) identifies the service set with which a wireless device is associated.
Wireless devices associating to the access point (AP) must have the same SSID.
Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 English keyboard characters) for WiFi.
Max Clients
Specify the maximum number of clients that can connect to this network at the same time.
Hide SSID
Select this check box to hide the SSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station cannot obtain
the SSID through scanning using a site survey tool.
This check box is grayed out if the WPS function is enabled in the
Network Setting
>
Wireless
>
WPS
screen.
Multicast
Forwarding
Select this check box to allow the Zyxel Device to convert wireless multicast traffic into wireless
unicast traffic.
BSSID
This shows the MAC address of the wireless interface on the Zyxel Device when WiFi is enabled.
Security Level
Security Mode
Select
More Secure (Recommended)
to add security on this wireless network. The wireless clients
which want to associate to this network must have same wireless security settings as the Zyxel
Device. When you select to use a security, additional options appears in this screen.
Or you can select
No Security
to allow any client to associate this network without any data
encryption or authentication.
See the following sections for more details about this field.
Cancel
Click
Cancel
to restore your previously saved settings.
Apply
Click
Apply
to save your changes.
Table 30 Network Setting > Wireless > General (continued)
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