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The following table describes the general wireless LAN labels in this screen.

6.6.7

WPS

Use this screen to add a wireless station to the network using WPS. Click

WPS

in the

Wireless

Security

to open the following screen.

Figure 37

Wireless Security: WPS

Table 22

Wireless Security

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Wireless Radio

Select the wireless radio to set its security setting.

Wireless

Network 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 keyboard characters) for the wireless LAN.

Security Mode

Select

WPA-PSK

or

WPA2-PSK

to add security on this wireless network. The wireless

clients which want to associate to this network must have same wireless security settings as

this device. After you select to use a security, additional options appears in this screen.

Select

No Security

to allow any client to connect to this network without authentication.

Wireless

Password

This field appears when you choose wither

WPA-PSK

or

WPA2-PSK

as the security mode.

Type a pre-shared key from 8 to 63 case-sensitive keyboard characters.

Verify Password

Type the password again to confirm.

Apply

Click

Apply

to save your changes back to the NBG.

Cancel

Click

Cancel

to close this screen.

WPS

Click this to configure the WPS screen.

You can transfer the wireless settings configured here (

Wireless Security

screen) to

another wireless device that supports WPS.

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.

6.7

Status Screen in Easy Mode

In the Network Map screen, click

Status

to view read-only information about the NBG.

Figure 38

Status Screen in Easy Mode

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 23

Wireless Security: WPS

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Wireless

Security

Click this to go back to the Wireless Security screen.

WPS

Create a secure wireless network simply by pressing a button.

The NBG scans for a WPS-enabled device within the range and performs wireless security

information synchronization.

Note: After you click the

WPS

button on this screen, you have to press a similar button in the

wireless station utility within 2 minutes. To add the second wireless station, you have

to press these buttons on both device and the wireless station again after the first 2

minutes.

Register

Create a secure wireless network simply by entering a wireless client's PIN (Personal

Identification Number) in the NBG’s interface and pushing this button.

Type the same PIN number generated in the wireless station’s utility. Then click

Register

to

associate to each other and perform the wireless security information synchronization.

Exit

Click

Exit

to close this screen.

Table 24

Status Screen in Easy Mode

ITEM

DESCRIPTION

Name

This is the name of the NBG in the network. You can change this in the

Maintenance >

General

screen in

Section 25.3 on page 160

.

Time

This is the current system date and time.

The date is in YYYY:MM:DD (Year-Month-Day) format. The time is in HH:MM:SS

(Hour:Minutes:Seconds) format.

WAN IP

This is the IP address of the WAN port.

MAC Address

This is the MAC address of the NBG.

Firmware

Version

This shows the firmware version of the NBG.

The firmware version format shows the trunk version, model code and release number.

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Wireless 2.4G

Network Name

(SSID)

This shows the SSID of the wireless 2.4G network. You can configure this in the Wireless

Security screen (

Section 6.6.6 on page 45

;

Section 11.3.1.1 on page 81

).

Security

This shows the wireless security used by the NBG for the 2.4G wireless radio.

Wireless 5G

Network Name

(SSID)

This shows the SSID of the wireless 5G network. You can configure this in the Wireless

Security screen (

Section 6.6.6 on page 45

;

Section 11.3.1.1 on page 81

).

Security

This shows the wireless security used by the NBG for the 5G wireless radio.

Table 24

Status Screen in Easy Mode (continued)

ITEM

DESCRIPTION

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HAPTER

7

Router Mode

7.1

Overview

The NBG is set to router mode by default. Routers are used to connect the local network to another

network (for example, the Internet). In the figure below, the NBG connects the local network

(

LAN1

~

LAN4

) to the Internet.

Figure 39

NBG Network

Note: The Status screen is shown after changing to the Expert mode of the Web

Configurator. It varies depending on the device mode of your NBG.

7.2

What You Can Do

Use the

Status

screen (

Section 7.3 on page 49

) to view read-only information about your NBG.

7.3

Status Screen

Click

to open the status screen.

Modem

Router

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Figure 40

Status Screen: Router Mode

The following table describes the icons shown in the

Status

screen.

Table 25

Status Screen Icon Key: Router Mode

ICON

DESCRIPTION

Click this icon to view copyright and a link for related product information.

Click this icon to go to Easy Mode. See

Chapter 6 on page 37

.

Click this to go to the Home

page. See

Chapter 4 on page 31

.

Select a number of seconds or

None

from the drop-down list box to refresh all screen statistics

automatically at the end of every time interval or to not refresh the screen statistics.

Click this button to refresh the status screen statistics.