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Chapter 17 Maintenance
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17.4 Channel Usage
The Channel Usage screen shows whether a channel is used by another wireless network or
not. If a channel is being used, you should select a channel removed from it by five channels to
completely avoid overlap.
Click MAINTENANCE > Channel Usage to display the screen shown next.
Wait a moment while the ZyXEL Device compiles the information.
Figure 133 Channel Usage
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Association Time This field displays the time a wireless station first associated with the ZyXEL
Device.
Name (SSID) This field displays the SSID to which the wireless station is associated.
Signal Lv. This field displays the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) of the
wireless connection.
WDS Link This section displays only when bridge mode is activated on one of the
ZyXEL Device’s WLAN adaptors.
Link No This field displays the index number of a bridge connection on the WDS.
MAC Address This field displays a remote bridge MAC address.
Link Time This field displays the WDS link up-time.
Security This field displays whether traffic on the WDS is encrypted (TKIP or AES) or
not (None).
Refresh Click Refresh to reload the screen.
Table 74 Association List
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Table 75 Channel Usage
LABEL DESCRIPTION
SSID This is the Service Set IDentification name of the AP in an Infrastructure
wireless network or wireless station in an Ad-Hoc wireless network. For our
purposes, we define an Infrastructure network as a wireless network that uses
an AP and an Ad-Hoc network (also known as Independent Basic Service Set
(IBSS)) as one that doesn’t. See the chapter on wireless configuration for more
information on basic service sets (BSS) and extended service sets (ESS).
MAC Address This field displays the MAC address of the AP in an Infrastructure wireless
network. It is randomly generated (so ignore it) in an Ad-Hoc wireless network.