NETGEAR D6300 Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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Advanced Settings

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Advanced Wireless Settings

Select

ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Wireless Settings

to display the Advanced

Wireless Settings screen:

The following settings are available in this screen:

•

Enable Wireless Router Radio

. You can completely turn off the wireless portion of the

WiFi modem router by clearing this check box. Select this check box again to enable the

wireless portion of the WiFi modem router. When the wireless radio is disabled, other

members of your household can use the WiFi modem router by connecting their

computers to the WiFi modem router with an Ethernet cable.

Note:

The Fragmentation Length, CTS/RTS Threshold, and Preamble

Mode options are reserved for wireless testing and advanced

configuration only. Do not change these settings.

•

Turn off wireless signal by schedule

. From the Advanced Wireless Settings screen

(with the Enable Wireless Router Radio check box selected for the radio band you want

to configure), click the

Add a new period

button to display the Turn off wireless signal by

schedule screen.

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D6300 WiFi DSL Modem Router

You can use this feature to turn off the wireless signal from your WiFi modem router at

times when you do not need a wireless connection. For instance, you could turn it off for

the weekend if you leave town.

•

WPS Settings

. You can add WPS devices to your network.

•

AP Mode

. You can make the D6300 function as an access point.

•

Wireless Card Access List

. From the Advanced Wireless Settings screen, click the

Set

Up Access List

button to display the Wireless Card Access List screen.

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From the Wireless Card Access List screen, click

Add

to display the Wireless Card

Access Setup screen. On this screen, you can restrict access to your network to specific

devices based on their MAC address.

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Wireless Repeating Function (WDS)

You can set the WiFi DSL Modem Router up to be used as a wireless access point (AP).

Doing this setup enables the WiFi modem router to act as a wireless repeater. A wireless

repeater connects to another wireless WiFi modem router as a client where the network to

which it connects becomes the ISP service.

Wireless repeating is a type of Wireless Distribution System (WDS). A WDS allows a wireless

network to be expanded through multiple access points instead of using a wired backbone to

link them. The following figure shows a wireless repeating scenario.

Repeater

Base station

access point

Figure 12. Wireless repeating scenario

Note:

If you use the wireless repeating function, you need to select either

WEP

or

None

as a security option in the Wireless Settings screen.

The WEP option displays only if you select the wireless mode

Up to

54 Mbps

in the Wireless Settings screen.

Wireless Base Station

. The WiFi modem router acts as the parent access point, bridging

traffic to and from the child repeater access point, as well as handling wireless and wired

local computers. To configure this mode, you have to know the MAC address of the child

repeater access point.

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Wireless Repeater

. The WiFi modem router sends all traffic from its local wireless or wired

computers to a remote access point. To configure this mode, you have to know the MAC

address of the remote parent access point.

The D6300 WiFi modem router is always in dual-band concurrent mode, unless you turn off

one radio. If you enable the wireless repeater in either radio band, the wireless base station

or wireless repeater cannot be enabled in the other radio band. However, if you enable the

wireless base station in either radio band and use the other radio band as a wireless WiFi

modem router or wireless base station, dual-band concurrent mode is not affected.

For you to set up a wireless network with WDS,

t

he following conditions have to be met for

both access points:

•

Both access points have to use the same SSID, wireless channel, and encryption mode.

•

Both access points have to be on the same LAN IP subnet. That is, all the access point

LAN IP addresses are in the same network.

•

All LAN devices (wired and wireless computers) have to be configured to operate in the

same LAN network address range as the access points.

Wireless Repeating Function

Select

ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Wireless Repeating Function

to view or change

wireless repeater settings for the WiFi modem router.

•

Enable Wireless Repeating Function

. Select the check box for the 2.4-GHz or 5-GHz

network to use the wireless repeating function.

•

Disable Wireless Client Association

. If your WiFi modem router is the repeater,

selecting this check box means that wireless clients cannot associate with it. Only LAN

client associations are allowed.

-

If you are setting up a point-to-point bridge, select this check box.

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