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AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries User’s Guide
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C
HAPTER
7
Wireless LAN
7.1
Overview
This chapter describes how to perform tasks related to setting up and optimizing your wireless
network, including the following.
•
Turning the wireless connection on or off.
•
Configuring a name, wireless channel and security for the network.
•
Using WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) to configure your wireless network.
•
Setting up multiple wireless networks.
•
Using a MAC (Media Access Control) address filter to restrict access to the wireless network.
•
Performing other performance-related wireless tasks.
7.1.1
What You Can Do in the Wireless LAN Screens
This section describes the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries’s
Network Setting > Wireless
screens.
Use these screens to set up your AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries’s wireless connection.
•
Use the
General
screen to enable the Wireless LAN, enter the SSID and select the wireless
security mode (
Section 7.2 on page 92
).
•
Use the
More AP
screen (see
Section 7.3 on page 98
) to set up multiple wireless networks on
your AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries.
•
Use the
MAC Authentication
screen to allow or deny wireless clients based on their MAC
addresses from connecting to the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries (
Section 7.4 on page 100
).
•
Use the
WPS
screen (see
Section 7.5 on page 101
) to enable or disable WPS, generate a security
PIN (Personal Identification Number) and see information about the AMG1302/AMG1202-
TSeries’s WPS status.
•
Use the
WDS
screen (see
Section 7.6 on page 103
) to set up a Wireless Distribution System, in
which the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries acts as a bridge with other ZyXEL access points.
•
Use the
WMM
screen
to enable WiFi MultiMedia (WMM) to ensure quality of service in wireless
networks for multimedia applications (
Section 7.7 on page 104
).
•
Use the
Scheduling
screen (see
Section 7.8 on page 105
) to configure the dates/times to enable
or disable the wireless LAN.
•
Use the
Advanced
screen to configure wireless advanced features (
Section 7.9 on page 106
).
You don’t necessarily need to use all these screens to set up your wireless connection. For example,
you may just want to set up a network name, a wireless radio channel and security in the
General
screen.
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7.1.2
What You Need to Know About Wireless
Wireless Basics
“Wireless” is essentially radio communication. In the same way that walkie-talkie radios send and
receive information over the airwaves, wireless networking devices exchange information with one
another. A wireless networking device is just like a radio that lets your computer exchange
information with radios attached to other computers. Like walkie-talkies, most wireless networking
devices operate at radio frequency bands that are open to the public and do not require a license to
use. However, wireless networking is different from that of most traditional radio communications in
that there a number of wireless networking standards available with different methods of data
encryption.
Finding Out More
See
Section 7.10 on page 107
for advanced technical information on wireless networks.
7.1.3
Before You Start
Before you start using these screens, ask yourself the following questions. See
Section 7.1.2 on
page 92
if some of the terms used here are not familiar to you.
•
What wireless standards do the other wireless devices in your network support (IEEE 802.11g,
for example)? What is the most appropriate standard to use?
•
What security options do the other wireless devices in your network support (WPA-PSK, for
example)? What is the strongest security option supported by all the devices in your network?
•
Do the other wireless devices in your network support WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup)? If so, you
can set up a well-secured network very easily.
Even if some of your devices support WPS and some do not, you can use WPS to set up your
network and then add the non-WPS devices manually, although this is somewhat more
complicated to do.
•
What advanced options do you want to configure, if any? If you want to configure advanced
options such as Quality of Service, ensure that you know precisely what you want to do. If you do
not want to configure advanced options, leave them as they are.
7.2
The General Screen
Use this screen to enable the Wireless LAN, enter the SSID and select the wireless security mode.
Note: If you are configuring the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries from a computer connected
to the wireless LAN and you change the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries’s SSID,
channel or security settings, you will lose your wireless connection when you press
Apply
to confirm. You must then change the wireless settings of your computer to
match the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries’s new settings.
Click
Network
Setting
>
Wireless
to open the
General
screen.
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Figure 26
Network Setting > Wireless > General
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 16
Network Setting > Wireless > General
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Wireless Network Setup
Wireless
Select
Enable Wireless LAN
to activate wireless LAN.
Wireless Network Settings
Wireless
Network Name
(SSID)
The SSID (Service Set IDentity) identifies the service set with which a wireless device is
associated. Wireless devices associating to the access point (AP) must have the same
SSID.
Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 English keyboard characters) for the wireless LAN.
Hide SSID
Select this check box to hide the SSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station cannot
obtain the SSID through scanning using a site survey tool.
Client Isolation
Select this to keep the wireless clients in this SSID from communicating with each other
through the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries.
MBSSID/LAN
Isolation
Select this to keep the wireless clients in this SSID from communicating with clients in
other SSIDs or wired LAN devices through the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries.
Select both
Client Isolation
and
MBSSID/LAN Isolation
to allow this SSID’s wireless
clients to only connect to the Internet through the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries.
Channel
Selection
Set the operating channel manually by selecting a channel from the
Channel Selection
list or use
Auto
to have it automatically determine a channel to use.
Operating
Channel
This field displays the channel the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries is currently using.
Security Level
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7.2.1
No Security
Select
No Security
to allow wireless stations to communicate with the access points without any
data encryption or authentication.
Note: If you do not enable any wireless security on your AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries,
your network is accessible to any wireless networking device that is within range.
Figure 27
Wireless > General: No Security
7.2.2
Basic (WEP Encryption)
WEP encryption scrambles the data transmitted between the wireless stations and the access points
(AP) to keep network communications private. Both the wireless stations and the access points
must use the same WEP key.
Note: WEP is extremely insecure. Its encryption can be broken by an attacker, using
widely-available software. It is strongly recommended that you use a more
effective security mechanism. Use the strongest security mechanism that all the
wireless devices in your network support. For example, use WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK
if all your wireless devices support it, or use WPA or WPA2 if your wireless devices
support it and you have a RADIUS server. If your wireless devices support nothing
stronger than WEP, use the highest encryption level available.
Your AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries allows you to configure one 64-bit or 128-bit WEP key.
Security Mode
Select
Basic (WEP)
or
More Secure (WPA(2)-PSK, WPA(2))
to add security on this
wireless network. The wireless clients which want to associate to this network must have
same wireless security settings as the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries. When you select to use
a security, additional options appears in this screen.
Or you can select
No Security
to allow any client to associate this network without any
data encryption or authentication.
See the following sections for more details about this field.
Apply
Click this to save your changes.
Cancel
Click this to restore your previously saved settings.
Table 16
Network Setting > Wireless > General
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
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In order to configure and enable WEP encryption, click
Network
Setting
>
Wireless
to display the
General
screen, then select
Basic
as the security level.
Figure 28
Wireless > General: Basic (WEP)
The following table describes the wireless LAN security labels in this screen.
7.2.3
More Secure (WPA(2)-PSK)
The WPA-PSK security mode provides both improved data encryption and user authentication over
WEP. Using a Pre-Shared Key (PSK), both the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries and the connecting
client share a common password in order to validate the connection. This type of encryption, while
robust, is not as strong as WPA, WPA2 or even WPA2-PSK. The WPA2-PSK security mode is a
newer, more robust version of the WPA encryption standard. It offers slightly better security,
although the use of PSK makes it less robust than it could be.
Table 17
Wireless > General: Basic (WEP)
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Security Level
Select
Basic
to enable WEP data encryption.
Generate
password
automatically
Select this option to have the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries automatically generate a
password. The password field will not be configurable when you select this option.
Password
The password (WEP key) are used to encrypt data. Both the AMG1302/AMG1202-TSeries
and the wireless stations must use the same password (WEP key) for data transmission.
If you chose
64-bit
WEP, then enter any 5 ASCII characters or 10 hexadecimal characters
("0-9", "A-F").
If you chose
128-bit
WEP, then enter 13 ASCII characters or 26 hexadecimal characters
("0-9", "A-F").
WEP Encryption
Select
64-bits
or
128-bits
.
This dictates the length of the security key that the network is going to use.

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