ZyXEL Communications P-334U - Manual (Page 71)

P-334U/P-335U User’s Guide
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Figure 34 Wireless General
The following table describes the general wireless LAN labels in this screen.
Table 23 Wireless General
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Enable
Wireless LAN
Click the check box to activate wireless LAN.
Name(SSID) (Service Set IDentity) The SSID identifies the Service Set with which a wireless
station is associated. Wireless stations associating to the access point (AP) must
have the same SSID. Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable 7-bit ASCII
characters) for the wireless LAN.
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.
Channel
Selection
Set the operating frequency/channel depending on your particular region.
Select a channel from the drop-down list box. The options vary depending on whether
you are using A or B/G frequency band and the country you are in. This field is not
available when you select Auto Channel Selection.
Refer to the Connection Wizard chapter for more information on channels.
Auto Channel
Selection
Select the check box to have the ZyXEL Device automatically scan for and select a
channel which is not used by another device.
Operating
Channel
This displays the channel the ZyXEL Device is currently using.
Apply Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyXEL Device.
Reset Click Reset to reload the previous configuration for this screen.
See the rest of this chapter for information on the other labels in this screen.
4.3.1 No Security
Select No Security to allow wireless stations to communicate with the access points without
any data encryption.