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Configuring Your Wireless Card Access List

By default, any wireless PC that is configured with the SSID and WEP/WPA settings has access to

your wireless network. For increased security, you can restrict access to the wireless network to

only allow specific PCs based on their MAC addresses.

To restrict access based on MAC addresses:

1.

Connect to the gateway and log in as described in

“Viewing or Changing Wireless Settings” on

page 2-4

.

2.

From the main menu, select Wireless Settings. The Wireless Settings screen displays as shown

in

Figure 2-1 on page 2-4

.

3.

Scroll down to the Wireless Card Access List and select the

Turn Access Control On

check

box.

When you turn on access control, the gateway only accepts connections from clients on the

selected access control list. This provides an additional layer of security.

4.

Click

Apply

to confirm this setting.

Note:

If your computer is connected wirelessly to the wireless voice gateway, be

careful about selecting the

Turn Access Control On

check box. If your

computer’s MAC address is not in the access control list, then you will lose

your wireless connection when you click

Apply

. You must then access the

wireless voice gateway from a wired computer, or from a wireless computer

that is on the access control list, to make any further changes.

Figure 2-7

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Adding or Deleting a Wireless Card from the Access List

To add or delete a wireless card from the Setup Access List:

1.

Click

Setup Access List.

The Wireless Card Access List screen displays.

The Access List displays a list of wireless clients that will have access to the wireless network

when the list is enabled.

2.

You can add a device to the Access List using either of these methods:

•

If the computer is in the

Connected Wireless Devices

table, click the radio button of that

computer to capture its MAC address.

•

Specify the MAC address of the device to be added in the

Add Access Filter

fields. The

MAC address can usually be found on the bottom of the wireless device.

3.

Click

Add

.

4.

Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for each wireless PC that you are adding.

5.

Click

Apply

to save these changes. Now, only devices on this list will be allowed to wirelessly

connect to the gateway.

To delete an entry from the Access List, select the corresponding radio button in the Access List

and then click

Delete

.

Figure 2-8

Note:

If no Device Name displays when you enter the MAC address, you can type a

descriptive name for the computer that you are adding.

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Guest Network

The guest network feature allows you to set up an additional wireless guest network. From the

main menu, under the Setup heading, select Guest Network. The Wireless Guest Network Setting

screen displays:

See the NETGEAR online help for assistance with setting up a wireless guest network.

Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM)

The Voice Gateway includes Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), which is a Quality of Service (QoS)

feature. This feature is enabled, and the Voice Gateway uses it automatically with clients running

applications that support WMM.

WMM QoS provides prioritization of wireless data packets from different applications based on

four categories: voice, video, best effort, and background. For an application to receive the

benefits of WMM QoS, both it and the client running that application must be WMM-enabled.

Legacy applications that do not support WMM, and applications that do not require QoS, are

assigned to the best-effort category, which receives a lower priority than voice and video.

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From the main menu, under the Setup heading, select Wi-Fi Multimedia. The Wi-Fi Multimedia

screen displays:

The default setting is

Auto

. You can change the setting to

On

or

Off

. If you make a change, click

Apply

to change the settings.

Figure 2-10

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