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3.4.3.3 Access Control List

Choose

WLAN > Access Control

List and the following page appears. In this page, you can

configure the access control of the wireless clients.

Choose

Allow Listed

as the access control mode to enable white list function. Only the

devices whose MAC addresses are listed in the Current Access Control List can access the

router.

Choose

Deny Listed

as the access control mode to enable black list function. The devices

whose MAC addresses are listed in the Current Access Control List are denied to access the

router.

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3.4.3.4 MBSSID

Choose

Wireless > MBSSID

and the following page appears. In this page, you can

configure the multiple SSID of the wireless clients.

It supports four virtual access points (VAPs). It is a unique name to identify the router in the

wireless LAN. Wireless stations associating to the router must have the same name. Enter a

descriptive name that is used when the wireless client connecs to the router.

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3.4.3.5 Advanced

Choose

WLAN > Advanced

and the following page appears. In this page, you can configure

the wireless advanced parameters. It is recommended to use the default parameters.

Note:

The parameters in the

Advanced

link are modified by the professional personnel, it

is recommended to keep the default values.

The following table describes the parameters of this page:

Field

Description

Authentication type

Select the router operating in the open system or encryption

authentication. You can choose Open System, Shared Key, or

Auto.

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

In the open system, the wireless client can directly

connect to the device.



In Shared key, the wireless client connects to the router

using the shared key.



The default is set to Auto, which allows either Open

System or Shared Key authentication to be used.

Fragment treshold

This value should remain at its default setting of 2346. It

specifies the maximum size for a packet before data is

fragmented into multiple packets. If you experience a high

packet error rate, you may slightly increases the “Fragment

Threshold” value within the value range of 256 to 2346.

Setting this value too low may result in poor network

performance. Only minor modifications of this value are

recommended.

RTS Treshold

This value should remain at its default setting of 2347. If you

encounter inconsistent data flow, only minor modifications are

recommended. If a network packet is smaller than the preset

“RTS threshold” size, the RTS/CTS mechanism will not be

enabled.

Beacon Interval

The Beacon Interval value indicates the frequency interval of

the beacon. Enter a value between 20 and 1024.

DTIM Interval

Data beacon proportion (transmission quantity indication). Its

value range is 1

—

255 and the default value is 100.

Data Rate

Choose the transmission rate of the wireless data.

You can choose Auto, 1 M, 2 M, 5.5 M, 11 M, 6 M, 9 M, 12 M,

18 M, 24 M, 36 M, 48 M, 54M, MSC0 ~ MSC7.

PreambleType



Long Preamble: It means this card always uses long

preamble.



Short Preamble: It means this card can support short

preamble capability.

Broadcast SSID

Select whether the router broadcasts SSID or not. You can

select Enable or Disable.



Select Enable, the wireless client searches the router

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through broadcasting SSID.



Select Disable to hide SSID, the wireless clients can not

find the SSID.

Relay Blocking

Wireless isolation. Once this field is Enabled, the wireless

clients

that

are

connected

to

the

router

cannot

intercommunicate.

Ethernet to Wireless

Blocking

Whether the wireless network can communicate with the

Ethernet network or not.

Wifi Multicast to

Unicast

Enable it to use unicast to transmit multicast packets.

Aggregation

It is applied when the destination end of all MPDU are for one

STA.

Short GI

It is not recommended to enable GI in obvious environment of

Multi-path effect.

Apply Changes

Click it to apply the settings temporarily. If you want to save

the settings of this page permanently, click Save in the lower

left corner of the webpage. The save button appears only after

the ‘Apply Changes’ button has been clicked.