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The following screen opens to indicate that you have

successfully saved your new settings.

If you choose WPA2, enter the WPA2 Personal

Passphrase and click Next to complete the Setup

Wizard.

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Wireless

Mode:

Site Survey:

Enable

Wireless:

Wireless

Network

Name:

802.11 Band

802.11 Mode:

Enable Auto

Channel Scan:

Wireless

Channel:

Select Infrastructure to connect to a wireless (AP) Access

Point, select Ad-hoc to connect to another bridge or wireless

station.

A function that looks for available wireless networks.

Click the check box to enable the wireless function. If you

do not want to use wireless, uncheck the box to disable all

the wireless functions.

Service Set Identifier (SSID) is the name of your wireless

network. Create a name using up to 32 characters. The SSID

is case-sensitive.

The options include 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 2.4GHz/5GHz. This

option is unavailable in Bridge Mode.

If all of the wireless devices in your wireless network can

connect in the same transmission mode, you can improve

performance slightly by choosing the appropriate “Only”

mode. If you have some devices that use a different

transmission mode, choose the appropriate “Mixed” mode.

This option is unavailable in Bridge Mode.

The Auto Channel Scan setting is used to allow the

DAP-1522 to choose the channel with the least amount of

interference.

This option is unavailable in Bridge Mode.

Indicates the channel setting for the DAP-1522. The Channel

can be changed to fit the channel setting for an existing

wireless network or to customize the wireless network. This

option is unavailable in Bridge Mode.

Wireless

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Transmission

Rate:

Channel Width:

Visibisibility

Status:

Security Mode:

Enable:

Select the transmit rate. It is strongly suggested to select Best (automatic) for best performance. This option is unavailable

in Bridge Mode.

Select the Channel Width:

Auto 20/40 - Select if you are using both 802.11n and non-802.11n wireless devices.

20MHz - Select if you are not using any 802.11n wireless clients.

This setting determines whether the DAP-1522 will continue to periodically broadcast its presence on the network. This option

is unavailable in Bridge Mode.

Refer to page 65 for more information regarding wireless security.

Enable the Wi-Fi Protected Setup feature.

Enabling this option allows the user to manually assign the source MAC address to packets forwarded by the DAP-1522. If not

manually assigned, the packet’s source MAC address field will be automatically selected as the DAP-1522’s MAC address.

Wireless MAC Cloning

MAC Address:

Scan:

Enter the desired MAC address connected to your DAP-1522 to enable the clone function.

Click the

Scan

button to search for all available devices connected to your DAP-1522’s Ethernet ports

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LAN

Connection

Type:

Access Point

IP Address:

Subnet Mask:

Default

Gateway:

Device Name:

Use the drop-down menu to select

Static IP

if

your ISP assigned you the IP address, subnet

mask, gateway, and DNS server addresses. Select

Dynamic IP (DHCP)

to automatically assign an

IP address to the computers on the LAN/private

network.

Enter the IP address assigned by your ISP.

Enter the Subnet Mask assigned by your ISP.

Enter the Gateway assigned by your ISP.

Enter the Device Name of the AP and click

Next

to

continue. It is recommended to change the Device

Name if there is more than one D-Link device within

the subnet.

This section will allow you to change the local network settings of the bridge and to configure the Static settings.

Network Settings

Static

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DHCP

Select DHCP to automatically obtain an IP address

on the LAN/private network.

Enter the Device Name of the AP and click

Next

to

continue. It is recommended to change the Device

Name if there is more than one D-Link device within

the subnet.

LAN Connection

Type:

Device Name: