ZyXEL Communications ZyAIR G-3000, User Manual

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ZyAIR G-3000 User’s Guide
Chapter 3 Wizard Setup 44
3.3 Wizard Setup: Wireless LAN
Use the second wizard screen to set up the wireless LAN.
Figure 11 Wizard 2 : Wireless LAN Setup
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 4 Wizard 2 : Wireless LAN Setup
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Wireless LAN Setup
ESSID Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable 7-bit ASCII characters) for the
wireless LAN.
If you change this field on the ZyAIR, make sure all wireless stations use the
same ESSID in order to access the network.
Choose Channel ID To manually set the ZyAIR to use a channel, select a channel from the drop-
down list box. Open the Channel Usage screen to make sure the channel is
not already used by another AP or independent peer-to-peer wireless network.
To have the ZyAIR automatically select a channel, click
Scan instead.
Scan Click this button to have the ZyAIR automatically scan for and select a channel
with the least interference.
WEP Encryption Select Disable allows all wireless computers to communicate with the access
points without any data encryption.
Select
64-bit WEP or 128-bit WEP to allow data encryption.
ASCII Select this option in order to enter ASCII characters as the WEP keys.
Hex Select this option to enter hexadecimal characters as the WEP keys.
The preceding 0x is entered automatically.