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MAC Address

: enter the MAC address(es). The format of MAC address could be: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx or

xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx.

Click Apply to apply your settings and the item will be listed below.

If you don’t need a rule, check the remove checkbox and press Remove to delete it.

Wireless Bridge

WDS (wireless distributed system) is a wireless access point mode that enables wireless link and

communication with other access points. It’s easy to install, simply define the peer’s MAC address of

the connected AP. WDS takes advantage of cost saving and flexibility with no extra wireless client

device required to bridge between two access points and extending an existing wired or wireless

infrastructure network to create a larger network. Here you can select what role the AP server has, AP

or wireless bridge (WDS).

AP Mode

: determines whether the gateway will act as an Access point or as a Bridge.

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Access Point: The gateway communicates with both clients and bridges.

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Wireless Bridge: The gateway communicates with other WDS devices only. In this mode,

the gateway doesn’t communicate with client devices.

If your wireless network includes repeaters that use WDS, the gateway in wireless bridge mode will

also communicate with your repeaters. The gateway in wireless bridge mode will not communicate

with a repeater that uses a proprietary (non-WDS) mode.

Bridge Restrict

: When AP Mode is set to Wireless Bridge, this determines whether the gateway will

communicate with all other bridges or only specific ones:

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Enable:

to enable wireless bridge restriction. Only those specified in the Remote MAC

Address the gateway can communicate with.

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Remote Bridge MAC Address

: Enter the remote bridge MAC addresses. Here up to 4 bridge MAC

addresses are supported.

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Enabled(Scan): To enable wireless bridge restriction. Only those scanned by the gateway

can communicate.

Remote Bridge MAC Address: select the remote bridge MAC addresses.

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Disable: Does not restrict the gateway communicating with bridges that have their MAC

address listed, but it is still open to communicate with all bridges that are in the same

network.

Click Apply to apply your settings.

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Advanced

Here users can set some advanced parameters about wireless.

Band

: Select frequency band. Here 2.4GHz.

Channel

: Allows channel selection of a specific channel (1-7) or Auto mode.

Scan Used Channel

: Press the button to scan and list all channels being used.

Auto Channel Timer (min):

The auto channel times length it takes to scan in minutes. Only available

for auto channel mode.

802.11n/EWC

: select to auto enable or disable 802.11n.

Bandwidth

: Select bandwidth. The higher the bandwidth the better the performance will be.

Control Sideband

: only available for 40MHz. It allows you to select upper sideband or lower

sideband. Sideband refers to the frequency band either above (upper sideband) or below ower

sideband) the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a

carrier wave.

802.11n Rate

: This allows you to select the fixed transmission rate or auto.

802.11n Protection

: turn off for maximize throughput. Auto for greater security.

Support 802.11n Client Only

: turn on the option to only provide wireless access to the clients

operating at 802.11n speeds.

RIFS Advertisement

: Reduced Inter-frame Spacing (RIFS) is a 802.11n feature that also improves

performance by reducing the amount of dead time required between OFDM transmissions. Select Off

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to disable this function or auto to enable this function.

OBSS Co-Existence

: coexistence (or not) between 20 MHZ and 40 MHZ overlapping basic service

sets (OBSS) in wireless local area networks.

RX Chain Power Save

: Enabling this feature turns off one of the Receive chains, going from 2x2 to

2x1 to save power.

RX Chain Power Save Quiet Time

: The number of seconds the traffic must be below the PPS value

before the Rx Chain Power Save feature activates itself.

RX Chain Power Save PPS

: The maximum number of packets per seconds that can be processed by

the WLAN interface for a duration of Quiet Time, described above, before the Rx Chain Power Save

feature activates itself.

54g™ Rate:

Multicast Rate

: Setting for multicast packets transmission rate.

Basic Rate

: Setting for basic transmission rate. It is not a specific kind of rate, it is a series of rates

supported. When set to Default, the router can transmit with all kinds of standardized rates.

Fragmentation Threshold

: A threshold (in bytes) whether the packets will be fragmented and at what

size. Packets succeeding the fragmentation threshold of 802.11n WLAN will be split into smaller units

suitable for circuit size. While the packets smaller than fragmentation threshold will not be fragmented.

Default is 2346, setting the fragmentation too low may result in poor performance.

RTS Threshold

: Request to Send (RTS) threshold specifies the packet size, when exceeds the size,

the RTS/CTS will be triggered. The default setting of 2347(max length) will disable the RTS.

DTIM Interval

: Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM). The entry range is a value between 1 and

255. A DTIM is countdown variable that informs clients of the next window for listening to broadcast

and multicast messages. When the AP has buffered broadcast or multicast messages for associated

clients, it sends the next DTIM with a DTIM interval value. AP clients hear the beacons and awaken to

receive the broadcast and multicast messages. The default is 1.

Beacon Interval

: The amount of time between beacon transmissions in is milliseconds. The default is

100ms and the acceptable is 1- 65535. The beacon transmissions identify the presence of an access

point.

Global Max Clients

: Here you have the option of setting the limit of the number of clients who can

connect to your wireless network.

XPress™ Technology

: It has been designed to improve the wireless network efficiency. Default is

disabled.

Transmit Power

: select the transmitting power of your wireless signal.

WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia):

you can choose to enable or disable this function which allows for priority

of certain data over wireless network.

WMM No Acknowledgement

: Refers to the acknowledge policy at the MAC level. Enabling WMM No

Acknowledgement can result in more efficient throughput but higher error rates in noisy Radio

Frequency (RF) environment.

WMM APSD:

Automatic Power Save Delivery. Enable this to save power.

Station Info

Here you can view information about the wireless clients.

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MAC Address

: The MAC address of the wireless clients.

Associated

: List all the stations that are associated with the Access Point. If a station is idle for too

long, it is removed from this list

Authorized

: List those devices with authorized access. SSID: Show the current SSID of the client.

Interface

: To show which interface the wireless client is connected to.

Refresh

: To get the latest information.

Schedule Control

Schedule control is aimed to offer methods to flexibly control when the wireless network (SSID) is

allowed for access.

The Wireless schedule only functions whilst Wireless is enabled.

The Guest/Virtual AP schedule control only operates whilst the associated AP is enabled. For detail

setting the timeslot, user can turn to Time Schedule .

Time Schedule

: Set when the SSID works. If user wants the SSID works all the time, please select

“Always On”; if not, please set or select the exact time your want the SSID works. Here user can set

two separate intervals.

For example: user wants the SSID “wlan-ap” to work on weekdays except for Wednesday, under this

circumstance, user can set as shown below. () offers a optimal way to set two separate timeslots when

user needs to activate the SSID during separate intervals.)