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The following table describes the general wireless LAN labels in this screen.
Table 25
Network > Wireless LAN > General
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Enable
Wireless LAN
Click the check box to activate wireless LAN.
Enable
Wireless LAN
#1
Set the number of wireless LANs to enable on this device, up to a
maximum of 4.
Name(SSID)
(Service Set IDentity) The SSID identifies the Service Set with which a
wireless station is associated. Wireless stations associating to the access
point (AP) must have the same SSID. Enter a descriptive name (up to 32
printable 7-bit ASCII characters) for the wireless LAN.
There is one Name(SSID) field for each wireless LAN enabled on this
device.
Channel
Selection
Set the operating frequency/channel depending on your particular region.
Select a channel from the drop-down list box. The options vary depending
on the frequency band and the country you are in.
Refer to the Connection Wizard chapter for more information on channels.
This option is only available if
Auto Channel Selection
is disabled.
Auto Channel
Selection
Select this check box for the NBG4604 to automatically choose the
channel with the least interference. Deselect this check box if you wish to
manually select the channel using the
Channel Section
field.
Operating
Channel
This displays the channel the NBG4604 is currently using.
Channel
Width
Select whether the NBG4604 uses a wireless channel width of 20 or 40
MHz. A standard 20 MHz channel offers transfer speeds of up to 150Mbps
whereas a 40MHz channel uses two standard channels and offers speeds
of up to 300 Mbps. Because not all devices support 40 MHz channels,
select
Auto 20/40MHz
to allow the NBG4604 to adjust the channel
bandwidth automatically.
SSID
Selection
Select a wireless LAN for which to configure security settings.
The security settings only apply to the selected wireless LAN.
Enable 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.
Enable Intra-
BSS Traffic
A Basic Service Set (BSS) exists when all communications between
wireless clients or between a wireless client and a wired network client go
through one access point (AP).
Intra-BSS traffic is traffic between wireless clients in the BSS. When Intra-
BSS is enabled, wireless client
A
and
B
can access the wired network and
communicate with each other. When Intra-BSS is disabled, wireless client
A
and
B
can still access the wired network but cannot communicate with
each other.