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USING THE WEB-BASED ADVANCED USER INTERFACE
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Using the Accept “ANY” SSID Feature
Note: This advanced feature should be employed by advanced users only. A feature
of wireless networking is the ability to scan for networks and connect to them
easily. For instance, you can set up a wireless-equipped computer to connect to
and an SSID called “ANY”. This forces the wireless network adapter in the computer
to look for any network in the area and connect to it. For ease-of-use this is very
convenient, but in some cases you may want users to have to specify the name of
the network. You can program the Router to reject a wireless-equipped computer
looking for an SSID of “ANY”. Remove the check mark in the box next to “Accept
‘ANY’ SSID”, then click “Apply Changes”. The change is immediate. Each computer
now needs to be set to connect to your specific SSID; an SSID of “ANY” will no
longer be accepted. Refer to the documentation of your wireless network adapter
for information on making this change.
Using the Broadcast SSID Feature
Note: This advanced feature should be employed by advanced users only. For
security, you can choose not to broadcast your network’s SSID. Doing so will keep
your network name hidden from computers that are scanning for the presence of
wireless networks. To turn off the broadcast of the SSID, remove the check mark
from the box next to “Broadcast SSID”, then click “Apply Changes”. The change is
immediate. Each computer now needs to be set to connect to your specific SSID;
an SSID of “ANY” will no longer be accepted. Refer to the documentation of your
wireless network adapter for information on making this change.
Changing the Wireless Encryption Settings
Clicking on the “Encryption” link in the “Wireless” tab will take you to the
Encryption settings screen. To make setting up your network for the first time easy,
the Router ships with encryption turned off. If you wish to turn on encryption, you
can do so from this page. Turning on encryption will require you to set each of
your wireless-equipped computers with the same encryption settings that you
make in the Router. Refer to the documentation of your wireless network adapter
for information on making this change.
There are two types of encryption to choose from: 64-bit and 128-bit encryption.
Using encryption will make your network more secure, but will slow down the
network performance. Although network performance will be reduced, it is likely
the change will not be detectable to users of the network.
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