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Figure 4-41 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 20-1000 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

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

specify the value between 1-15 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.

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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.

4.7.6

Wireless Statistics

Choose menu “

Wireless

→

Wireless Statistics

”, you can see the MAC Address, Current Status,

Received Packets and Sent Packets for each connected wireless station.

Figure 4-42 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.



Note:

This page will be refreshed automatically every 5 seconds.

4.8

Guest Network

Figure 4-43 The Guest Network menu

There are two submenus under the Guest Network menu (shown in Figure 4-43):

Wireless

Settings

and

Storage Sharing

.

Click either of them, and you will be able to configure the

corresponding functions.

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4.8.1

Wireless Settings

Choose menu “

Guest Network

→

Wireless Settings

”, you can configure the Guest Network

Wireless Settings on the page as shown in Figure 4-44.

Figure 4-44 Guest Network Wireless Settings



Allow Guest To Access My Local Network

- If enabled, guests can communicate with

hosts.



Enable Guest Network Bandwidth Control

- If enabled, the Guest Network Bandwidth

Control rules will take effect.



Egress Bandwidth For Guest Network

- The upload speed through the WAN port for Guest

Network.



Ingress Bandwidth For Guest Network

- The download speed through the WAN port for

Guest Network.



Guest Network (2.4G/5G)

- Enabled or disable the Guest Network function here.



Network Name

- Enter a value of up to 32 characters. The same Name (SSID) must be

assigned to all wireless devices in your Guest Network.



Wireless Security

- You can configure the security of Guest Network here.

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

Access Time

- During this time the wireless stations could accessing the AP.



Note:

The range of bandwidth for Guest Network is calculated according to the setting of Bandwidth

Control on the page “Bandwidth Control->Control Settings”.

4.8.2

Storage Sharing

Choose menu “

Guest Network

→

Storage Sharing

”, you can configure the Guest Network

Storage Sharing on the page as shown in Figure 4-45. When a share folder is added, you can

view its display name, volume partition, folder path and you can delete the share folder by clicking

the

Delete

button.

Figure 4-45 Guest Network Storage Sharing



User Name

- The user name is guest for Guest Network, which can't be changed.



Password

- Enter the password in the Password field. The password must be composed of

alphanumeric symbols not exceeding 15 characters in length.



Confirm Password

- Re-enter the password here.



Storage Authority

- Authority of user: Read Only or Read and Write.



Name

- This folder's display name.



Partition

- The volume that the folder resides. Volume 1-8 is mapping to USB port 1, Volume

9-16 is mapping to USB port 2.



Folder

- The real full path of the specified folder.

You can edit the share folder by clicking

Edit

.

You can delete the share folder by clicking

Delete

.

Follow the instructions below to set up your Guest Network Storage Sharing:

1.

Plug an external USB hard disk drive or USB flash drive into this Router.

2.

Make sure the Service Status on the page “USB Settings -> Storage Sharing” is

Started

.

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3.

Make sure the Access shared storage with password on the page “USB Settings -> Storage

Sharing” is

Enabled

.

4.

Click the

Start

button to start the Guest Network Storage Sharing.

5.

Click the

Add New Folder

to Share

button to specify a folder to share for the guests.

There is one default user account that can access the Guest Network Storage Sharing. Clicking

Modify

on Figure 4-45, there will pop up Figure 4-46, where you can change the password and

storage authority of the account.

Figure 4-46 Modify User Account of Guest Network



Note:

1.

If you want guests visit folders of Guest Network Storage Sharing with guest account, you

must enable Access shared storage with password on the page “USB Settings -> Storage

Sharing”, or the guests can't access to the Guest Network Storage Sharing.

2.

The max share folders number is 6. If you want to share a new folder when the number has

reached 6, you can delete a share folder and then add a new one.

4.9

DHCP

Figure 4-47 The DHCP menu

There are three submenus under the DHCP menu (shown in Figure 4-47),

DHCP Settings

,

DHCP Clients List

and

Address Reservation.

Click any of them, and you will be able to

configure the corresponding function.

4.9.1

DHCP Settings

Choose menu “

DHCP

→

DHCP Settings

”, you can configure the DHCP Server on the page as

shown in Figure 4-48.The Router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration