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Wireless status: You can choose “enable” or “disable” to enable or disable the “Wireless

Network Status”, if what you choose is “Disable”, the AP function of wireless router will

be turned off.

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SSID: The default is trst1.

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Radio band: You can select the wireless standards running on your network, if you have

Wireless-N, and Wireless-B/G devices in your network, keep the default setting,

802.11b+g+n

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Radio mode: You can select radio mode of wireless router, it contains Access Point, Client,

AP+WDS and WDS. The default setting is AP mode.

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MAC: Wireless router’s physical address.

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SSID Broadcasting: You can select “enable” or “disable” to enable or disable the broadcast

SSID function, If the setting of this field is disable, wireless client can’t obtain this SSID to

login in, then user have to input the SSID value manually.

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Channel width: This switch allows you to set Router's wireless bandwidth. 20MHz: In this

mode you can get low bandwidth, little interference and slow rate. 40MHz: In this mode

you can get high bandwidth, high interference and rapid rate. Use only when you have a

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pure router, draft 802.11n wireless network.

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Channel sideband: It controls your wireless router use higher or lower channel when

working on 40MHz.

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Region: please select the region where you live in.

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Channel: In 20MHz, you can select one channel from 1 to 13 manually, and in 40MHz,

you can select one channel from 1 to 9 or 5 to 13, which provides a choice of avoiding

interference.

4.5.2.

Wireless Security

The item allows you to encrypt your wireless communication, and you can also protect your

wireless network from unauthorized user access. It supplies “None”, “WEP”, “WPA-PSK”,

“WPA2-PSK” and “WPA/WPA2-PSK” five different encryption modes.

4.5.2.1.

None

“None” means do not encrypt wireless data.

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WEP

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Key Length: There are two basic levels of WEP encryption, 64 bits and 128 bits, the

more bits password have, the better security wireless network is, at the same time the

speed of wireless is more slower.

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Key Mode: If you select WEP to encrypt your data, choose the bits of password, it should

be 64 bits or 128 bits. Then choose the format of password; it should be HEX or ASCII.

The valid character for HEX format should be numbers from 0 to 9 and letters from A to

F. HEX support mixed letter and number mode. And ASCII supports all characters that in

keyboard.

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Key Length description: when you select 64bits, you need to input 10 chars for HEX and

5 chars for ASCII, and when you select 128bits, you need to input 26 chars for HEX and

13 chars for ASCII.

Note: when the WPS is enabled, please not use WEP.

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4.5.2.3.

WPA-PSK

Figure 4-33

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Encryption type: You can select the algorithm you want to use, TKIP, AES or

TKIP&AES. TKIP means “Temporal Key Integrity Protocol”, which incorporates

Message Integrity Code (MIC) to provide protection against hackers. AES, means

“Advanced Encryption System”, which utilizes a symmetric 128-Bit block data.

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Key Renewal: you can configure the renewal time between 60 to 86400 seconds.

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Key Length description: you need to input 8 to 63 ASCII characters no matter which type

you select.

4.5.2.4.

WPA2-PSK

The WPA2-PSK is similar to WPA-PSK and with stronger encryption method than WPA-PSK,

using WPA2-PSK; you should input password (leave this value in the range of 8 to 63

characters) and key renewal time (leave this value in the range of 60 to 86400 seconds).

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4.5.2.5.

WPA/WPA2-PSK

This item mixed WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK mode, which provides higher security level; you

can configure it according with WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK.

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4.5.3.

Wireless MAC Filter

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Access Control Status: the default is disable. You can filter wireless users by enabling

this function; thus unauthorized users can not access the network.

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Rule: you can select permit or deny. The default is permit.

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MAC address: input the MAC address that you want to control. The default format is

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