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4.9.5 Wireless Advanced

Choose menu “

Wireless 5GHz

”

Æ

”

Wireless Advanced

”, you can configure the advanced settings

of your wireless network.

Figure 4-47

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Transmit Power:

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

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

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Beacon Interval:

Enter a value between 25-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here. The

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

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

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RTS Threshold:

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

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

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

2346.

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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 modem router has buffered broadcast or

multicast 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.

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Enable Short GI:

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

reducing the guard interval time

.

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Enabled Client isolation:

This function can isolate wireless stations on your network from

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

each other. To use this function, check this box. Client isolation is disabled by default.

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Enable WMM: WMM

function can guarantee the packets with high-priority messages being

transmitted preferentially. It is strongly recommended.

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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.

4.9.6 Wireless Status

Choose menu “

Wireless 5GHz

”

Æ

”

Wireless Status

”, you can see the MAC Address, Current

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

Figure 4-48

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MAC Address:

The connected wireless station's MAC address

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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

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Received Packets:

Packets received by the station

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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.

4.10 USB Settings

There are six submenus under the USB Settings menu,

USB Mass

Storage

,

User Accounts

,

Storage Sharing

,

FTP Server

,

Media Server

and

Print Server

. Click any of them, and you will be

able to configure the corresponding function.

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4.10.1 USB Mass Storage

Choose menu “

USB Settings

→

”

USB Mass

Storage

”, you can configure a USB disk drive

attached to the modem router and view volume and share properties such as share name,

capacity, status, and action, etc on this page as shown below.

Figure 4-49

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Volume:

The volume name of the USB drive the users have access to.

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File System:

The system of the USB drive.

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Capacity:

The storage capacity of the USB driver.

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Status:

Indicates the shared or non-shared status of the volume.

Online

means volume can

be shared, while

Offline

means volume can not be shared. If

Deactivate

in Action

field is

enabled,

Disabled

will be displayed in the Status field, which means volume can not be

shared.

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Action:

When the volume is shared, you can click the

Deactivate

to stop sharing the volume;

when volume is non-shared, you can click the

Enable

button to share the volume.

Click

Disconenct

to safely remove the USB storage device that is connected to USB port.

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Note:

Before removing the USB storage device, you should click “Disconnect” to make sure that all your

data have been saved completely. Removing device directly may cause your USB storage device

crashed.

4.10.2 User Accounts

You can specify the user name and password for Storage Sharing and FTP Server users on this

page. Storage Sharing users can access the folders by entering the following URL into the

address field of your browser or Windows Explorer, such as. \\192.168.1.1. FTP Server users can

log into the FTP Server via FTP Client.

There are five users here, which provide means to control the access to the USB mass storage by

Storage Sharing or FTP. The Super User has the right to read and write to Storage Sharing and

FTP Server.

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Figure 4-50

To add a new user account, please follow the steps below:

1.

Choose the index from the drop-down list of

Choose Index

.

2.

Self-define a

New

User Name

.

3.

Enter the password in the

New

Password

field.

4.

Re-enter the password in the

Confirm Password

field.

5.

Click the

Set

button,

and then a new entry will be added in the table.

6.

Click the

Apply

button to apply your settings.

Click the

Refresh

button to refresh this page immediately.

4.10.3 Storage Sharing

Choose menu “

USB Settings

”

→

”

Storage Sharing

”, you can configure a USB disk drive

attached to the modem router and view volume and share properties on this page as shown

below.

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Figure 4-51

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Server Status:

Indicates the Storage Sharing's current status.

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Anonymous access to all the volumes:

This function is enabled by default, so users can

access all activated volumes of Storage Sharing without accounts. If you want to add a

shared folder which does not allow anonymous login, uncheck the box to disable this

function. And

Folder Table

will be displayed

as shown below.

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Share Name:

This folder's display name.

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Directory:

The real full path of the specified folder.

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User Access:

The authorization of the user is displayed. * users mean Super Users who

have the full-access permission to all activated volumes and share folders. Grey users mean

the users who have no right to use this function. Others are common users.

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Status:

The status of the entry is enabled or disabled.

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Edit:

Click

Edit

in the table, and then you can modify the entry.

To add a new folder, follow the instructions below.

1.

Click

Add New Folder

in Figure 4-51.