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5.5.4

Wireless MAC Filtering

Choose menu “

Advanced

→

Wireless

→

MAC Filtering

”, you can control the wireless access by

configuring the

Wireless MAC Filtering

function, shown in Figure 5-34.

Figure 5-34 Wireless MAC Filtering

To filter wireless users by MAC Address, click

Enable

. The default setting is

Disabled

.



MAC Address

-

The wireless station's MAC address that you want to filter.



Status

-

The status of this entry, either

Enabled

or

Disabled

.



Description -

A simple description of the wireless station.

To Add a Wireless MAC Address filtering entry, click the

Add New…

button. The "

Add or Modify

Wireless MAC Address Filtering entry

"

page will appear, shown in Figure 5-35.

Figure 5-35 Add or Modify Wireless MAC Address Filtering entry

To add or modify a MAC Address Filtering entry, follow these instructions:

1.

Enter the appropriate MAC Address into the

MAC Address

field. The format of the MAC

Address

is

XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX

(X

is

any

hexadecimal

digit).

For

example:

00-0A-EB-B0-00-0B.

2.

Give a simple description for the wireless station in the

Description

field. For example:

Wireless station A.

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3.

Select

Enabled

or

Disabled

for this entry on the

Status

drop-down list.

4.

Click the

Save

button to save this entry.

To modify or delete an existing entry:

1.

Click the

Modify

in the entry you want to modify. If you want to delete the entry, click the

Delete

.

2.

Modify the information.

3.

Click the

Save

button.

Click the

Enable All

button to make all entries enabled

Click the

Disable All

button to make all entries disabled.

Click the

Delete All

button to delete all entries.

Click the

Next

button to go to the next page.

Click the

Previous

button to return to the previous page.

For example:

If you desire that the wireless station A with MAC address 00-0A-EB-B0-00-0B and

the wireless station B with MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-5F are able to access the router, but all

the other wireless stations cannot access the router, you can configure the

Wireless MAC Address

Filtering

list by following these steps:

1. Click the

Enable

button to enable this function.

2. Select the radio button “

Allow the entries specified by any enabled entries in the list to

access

” for

Filtering Rules

.

3.

Delete all or disable all entries if there are any entries already.

4. Click the

Add New...

button.

5.

Enter the MAC address 00-0A-EB-B0-00-0B/00-0A-EB-00-07-5F

in the

MAC Address

field.

6.

Enter wireless station A/B in the

Description

field.

7. Select

Enabled

in the

Status

drop-down list.

8. Click the

Save

button.

9. Click the

Back

button.

The filtering rules that configured should be similar to the following list:

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5.5.5

Wireless Advanced

Choose menu “

Advanced

→

Wireless

→

Wireless Advanced

”, you can configure the advanced

settings of your wireless network.

Figure 5-36 Wireless Advanced



Transmit Power -

Here you can specify the transmit power of router. You can select High,

Middle or Low which you would like. High is the default setting and is recommended.



Beacon Interval -

Enter a value between 40-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here.

The beacons are the packets sent by the router to synchronize a wireless network. Beacon

Interval value determines the time interval of the beacons. The default value is 100.



RTS Threshold -

Here you can specify the RTS (Request to Send) Threshold. If the packet

is larger than the specified RTS Threshold size, the router will send RTS frames to a

particular receiving station and negotiate the sending of a data frame. The default value is

2346.



Fragmentation Threshold -

This value is the maximum size determining whether packets

will be fragmented. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in poor network

performance because of excessive packets. 2346 is the default setting and is

recommended.



DTIM Interval -

This value determines the interval of the Delivery Traffic Indication Message

(DTIM). A DTIM field is a countdown field informing clients of the next window for listening to

broadcast and multicast messages. When the router has buffered broadcast or multicast

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messages for associated clients, it sends the next DTIM with a DTIM Interval value. You can

specify the value between 1-255 Beacon Intervals. The default value is 1, which indicates

the DTIM Interval is the same as Beacon Interval.



Enable WMM - WMM

function can guarantee the packets with high-priority messages being

transmitted preferentially. It is strongly recommended.



Enable Short GI -

This function is recommended for it will increase the data capacity by

reducing the guard interval time

.



Enabled AP Isolation -

This function can isolate wireless stations on your network from

each other. Wireless devices will be able to communicate with the router but not with each

other. To use this function, check this box. AP Isolation is disabled by default.



Note:

If you are not familiar with the setting items in this page, it's strongly recommended to keep

the provided default values; otherwise it may result in lower wireless network performance.

5.5.6

Wireless Statistics

Choose menu “

Advanced

→

Wireless

→

Wireless Statistics

”, you can see the MAC Address,

Current Status, Received Packets and Sent Packets for each connected wireless station.

Figure 5-37 Wireless Statistics



MAC Address -

The connected wireless station's MAC address



Current Status

-

The connected wireless station's running status, one of

STA-AUTH/

STA-ASSOC/ STA-JOINED/ WPA/ WPA-PSK/ WPA2/ WPA2-PSK/ AP-UP/ AP-DOWN/

Disconnected



Received Packets

-

Packets received by the station



Sent Packets

-

Packets sent by the station

You cannot change any of the values on this page. To update this page and to show the current

connected wireless stations, click on the

Refresh

button.

If the numbers of connected wireless stations go beyond one page, click the

Next

button to go to

the next page and click the

Previous

button to return the previous page.

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

Note:

This page will be refreshed automatically every 5 seconds.

5.6

Guest Network

Choose menu “

Advanced

→

Guest Network

”, you can configure the Guest Network Wireless

Settings on the page as shown in Figure 5-38.

Figure 5-38 Guest Network Wireless Settings



Access And Bandwidth Control



Allow Guests to See Each Other -

If this checkbox is selected, anyone who connects to

the guest network can communicate with each other.