Chapter 7 Wireless
WX Series User’s Guide
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Bandwidth
Select whether the WX Device uses a wireless channel width of
20MHz
,
40MHz, 20/ 40MHz,
20/ 40/
80MHz
, or
20/ 40/ 80/ 160MHz
.
A standard 20MHz channel offers transfer speeds of up to 150Mbps whereas a 40MHz 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. A 80 MHz channel consists of two adjacent 40 MHz channels. The wireless clients
must also support 40 MHz or 80 MHz. It is often better to use the 20 MHz setting in a location where
the environment hinders the wireless signal.
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 channels, select
20MHz
or
20/ 40MHz
to allow the WX
Device to adjust the channel bandwidth.
Control
Sideband
This is available for some regions when you select a specific channel and set the
Ba ndwidth
field
to
40MHz
or
20/ 40MHz
. Set whether the control channel (set in the
C ha nne l
field) should be in
the
Lo we r
or
Uppe r
range of channel bands.
Wireless Network Settings
Wireless
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
Ne two rk Se tting
>
Wire le ss
>
WPS
screen.
Multicast
Forwarding
Select this check box to allow the WX Device to convert wireless multicast traffic into wireless
unicast traffic.
BSSID
This shows the MAC address of the wireless interface on the WX Device when WiFi is enabled.
Security Level
Security Mode
Select
Mo re Se c ure (Re c o m m e nde d)
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 WX
Device. When you select to use a security, additional options appears in this screen.
Or you can select
No Se c urity
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
C a nc e l
to restore the default or previously saved settings.
Apply
Click
Apply
to save your changes.
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