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In the

Security Mode

list, select one of the following modes:



WPA-PSK



WPA2-PSK



WPA-PSK + WPA2-PSK

For more information, see

“Encryption types” on page 44

.

5

In the

WPA-PSK Encryption Key

box, type a the key of your choice. The key must be in one of the following formats:



8 to 63 alphanumeric characters. For example: MyKey123



8 to 64 hexadecimal characters (characters from 0 to 9 and from A to F). For example: C54F48A5.

6

Click

Apply

.

7

Reconnect your wireless client(s) to the MediaAccess Gateway using these new security settings.

For more information, see

“5.1 Connecting Your Wireless Client via WPS” on page 40

or

“5.2 Connecting Your Wireless

Client without WPS” on page 42

.

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Saving Energy

Code of Conduct

To prove its commitment to protect the environment, Technicolor has signed the Code of Conduct, a global agreement to

reduce the power consumption of broadband access devices.

For more information, see

“6.1 Code of Conduct” on page 48

.

Technicolor power saving innovations

To further reduce the power consumption, Technicolor has developed the

ECO Manager

. This system constantly monitors

the services provided by the MediaAccess Gateway and automatically switches unused services to an ECO-friendly state.

For more information, see

“6.2 ECO Manager” on page 49

.

Next to this automated tool, you can also choose to manually disable services that you will not be using. For more

information,

“6.3 Manually Switching Off Services to Reduce Power” on page 50

.

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Code of Conduct

Power states

Code of Conduct provides rules for the power consumption in:



Full power state:

This is the normal operation mode of the device, where all functionality is enabled.



Low power state:

When there is no user traffic on the device, the device should switch to low power mode. This is a state in which devices

are only allowed to use a limited amount of energy to be able to power its components and respond to user activity.

Example

Take the following example:



The user switches off his computer at 20:00.



There are no other devices connected to the MediaAccess Gateway.

The MediaAccess Gateway switches to low power mode. This results in a considerable drop in the overall power

consumption of the MediaAccess Gateway.

No user traffic

User traffic

Time

Power

Consumption

Full power limit

Low power limit

20:00

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Introduction

The MediaAccess Gateway constantly monitors the user activity and uses this information to optimise the power

consumption:

For example:



The MediaAccess Gateway

reduces the clock frequency of the central processor

when there is no or low user activity.

This lowered clock frequency will result in a lower power consumption of the MediaAccess Gateway.



Disable the USB port(s)

when they are not used



Switch the wireless interface to power reduction mode

.

Wireless access point power reduction mode

When the MediaAccess Gateway access point switches to power reduction mode, the access point is switched off and is

only power on periodically to be able to detect new clients. If new clients are detected the wireless access point is fully

powered again. This is only possible if there are no devices connected to the MediaAccess Gateway.

Power reduction is enabled by default, but it is possible to disable it via the MediaAccess Gateway GUI. To configure power

reduction:

1

Browse to the MediaAccess Gateway GUI.

For more information, see

“Accessing the MediaAccess Gateway GUI” on page 33

.

2

Under

Home Network

, click

Wireless

.

3

In the

Navigation bar

, click

Configure

.

4

Under

Configuration

:



Select

Power Reduction Enabled

to enable power reduction.



Clear

Power Reduction Enabled

to disable power reduction.

5

Click

Apply

.

Example

If we use the same example as in the previous section, you can see that the MediaAccess Gateway is now able to further

reduce the power consumption in periods where less action is required from the MediaAccess Gateway.

No User Traffic

User Traffic

Time

20:00

Time

Power

Consumption

Full power limit

Low power limit