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Wireless Bridge
WDS (wireless distributed system) is a wireless access point mode that enables wireless link and
communication with other access points. It’s easy to install, simply define the peer’s MAC address of
the connected AP. WDS takes advantage of cost saving and flexibility with no extra wireless client
device required to bridge between two access points and extending an existing wired or wireless
infrastructure network to create a larger network.
Here you can select what role the AP server has, AP or wireless bridge (WDS).
AP Mode:
determines whether the gateway will act as an Access point or as a Bridge.
Access Point
: the gateway communicates with both clients and bridges.
Wireless Bridge
: the gateway communicates with other WDS devices only. In this mode, the
gateway doesn’t communicate with client devices.
If your wireless network includes repeaters that use WDS, the gateway in wireless bridge mode will
also communicate with your repeaters. The gateway in wireless bridge mode will not communicate
with a repeater that uses a proprietary (non-WDS) mode.
Bridge Restrict:
When
AP Mode
is set to
Wireless Bridge
, this determines whether the gateway
will communicate with all other bridges or only specific ones:
Enable:
to enable wireless bridge restriction. Only those specified in the Remote MAC
Address the gateway can communicate with.
Remote Bridge MAC Address:
enter the remote bridge MAC addresses. Here up to 4 bridge
MAC addresses are supported.
Enabled (Scan):
to enable wireless bridge restriction. Only those scanned by the gateway
can communicate.
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Remote Bridge MAC Address:
select the remote bridge MAC addresses.
Disable:
Does not restrict the gateway communicating with bridges that have their MAC
address listed, but it is still open to communicate with all bridges that are in the same network.
Click
Apply
to apply your settings.
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Advanced
Here users can set some advanced parameters about wireless.
Band:
select frequency band. Here 2.4GHz.
Channel:
Allows channel selection of a specific channel (1-7) or Auto mode.
Scan Used Channel:
Press the button to scan and list all channels being used.
Auto Channel Timer (min):
The auto channel times length it takes to scan in minutes. Only
available for auto channel mode.
802.11n/EWC:
select to auto enable or disable 802.11n.
Bandwidth:
Select bandwidth. The higher the bandwidth the better the performance will be.
Control Sideband:
only available for 40MHz. It allows you to select upper sideband or lower
sideband. Sideband refers to the frequency band either above (
upper sideband
) or below (
lower
sideband
) the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation
of a carrier wave.
802.11n Rate:
This allows you to select the fixed transmission rate or auto.
802.11n Protection:
turn off for maximize throughput. Auto for greater security.
Support 802.11n Client Only:
turn on the option to only provide wireless access to the clients
operating at 802.11n speeds.
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RIFS Advertisement:
Reduced Inter-frame Spacing (RIFS) is a 802.11n feature that also improves
performance by reducing the amount of dead time required between OFDM transmissions. Select
Off to disable this function or auto to enable this function.
OBSS Co-Existence:
coexistence (or not) between 20 MHZ and 40 MHZ overlapping basic service
sets (OBSS) in wireless local area networks.
RX Chain Power Save:
Enabling this feature turns off one of the Receive chains, going from 2x2 to
2x1 to save power.
RX Chain Power Save Quiet Time:
The number of seconds the traffic must be below the PPS
value before the Rx Chain Power Save feature activates itself.
RX Chain Power Save PPS:
The maximum number of packets per seconds that can be processed
by the WLAN interface for a duration of Quiet Time, described above, before the Rx Chain Power
Save feature activates itself.
Multicast Rate:
Setting for multicast packets transmission rate.
Basic Rate:
Setting for basic transmission rate. It is not a specific kind of rate, it is a series of rates
supported. When set to Default, the router can transmit with all kinds of standardized rates.
Fragmentation Threshold:
A threshold (in bytes) whether the packets will be fragmented and at
what size. Packets succeeding the fragmentation threshold of 802.11n WLAN will be split into
smaller units suitable for circuit size. While the packets smaller than fragmentation threshold will not
be fragmented. Default is 2346, setting the fragmentation too low may result in poor performance.
RTS Threshold:
Request to Send (RTS) threshold specifies the packet size, when exceeds the size,
the RTS/CTS will be triggered. The default setting of 2347(max length) will disable the RTS.
DTIM Interval:
Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM). The entry range is a value between 1
and 255. A DTIM is countdown variable that informs clients of the next window for listening to
broadcast and multicast messages. When the AP has buffered broadcast or multicast messages for
associated clients, it sends the next DTIM with a DTIM interval value. AP clients hear the beacons
and awaken to receive the broadcast and multicast messages. The default is 1.
Beacon Interval:
The amount of time between beacon transmissions in is milliseconds. The default
is 100ms and the acceptable is 1- 65535. The beacon transmissions identify the presence of an
access point.
Global Max Clients:
Here you have the option of setting the limit of the number of clients who can
connect to your wireless network.
XPress™ Technology:
It has been designed to improve the wireless network efficiency. Default is
disabled.
Regulatory Mode:
Select to deny any regulatory mode, which is only for
5GHz
band wireless. There
are two regulatory modes:
802.11h: The standard solves interference problems with e.g. satellites and radar using the same
5 GHz band as 802.11a or 802.11n dual-band access points.
802.11d: This standard automatically adjusts its allowed frequencies, power levels and bandwidth
accordingly to the country it's located in.
This means that manufacturers don't need to make country specific products.
Transmit Power:
select the transmitting power of your wireless signal.
WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia):
you can choose to enable or disable this function which allows for priority
of certain data over wireless network.
WMM No Acknowledgement:
Refers to the acknowledge policy at the MAC level. Enabling WMM
No Acknowledgement can result in more efficient throughput but higher error rates in noisy Radio
Frequency (RF) environment.
WMM APSD:
Automatic Power Save Delivery. Enable this to save power.
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Station Info
Here you can view information about the wireless clients.
MAC Address:
The MAC address of the wireless clients.
Associated:
List all the stations that are associated with the Access Point. If a station is idle for too
long, it is removed from this list
Authorized:
List those devices with authorized access
.
SSID:
Show the current SSID of the client.
Interface:
To show which interface the wireless client is connected to.
Refresh:
To get the latest information.

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