User`s manual
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After you finish with setting, please click ‘Apply’, and the following message will be displayed:
When you see this message, the settings you made is successfully save. You can click ‘Continue’ button to back
to previous page and continue on other setting items, or click ‘Apply’ button to restart the wireless access point
and the changes will take effect after about 30 seconds.
2-4-1-1. Multiple ESSID
This access point supports four SSIDs. Except the main SSID (It can be configure in Basic Setting page), you can
configure another three of SSIDs here. With different SSIDs, you can separate the wireless networks with
different SSID name, wireless security, WMM, and VLAN settings.
Note:
If you want to configure the wireless security for different SSID, please go to ‘2-7. Wireless Security’ for
more information.
Here are descriptions of every setup item:
No. Except Main SSID, you can configure additional three ESSID here.
Enable Select the box to enable the different additional ESSID.
SSID Please input the SSID name (the name used to identify this wireless access point)
here. You can input up to 32 alphanumerical characters.
Broadcast SSID Decide if the wireless access point will broadcast its own ESSID or not. You can hide
the ESSID of your wireless access point (set the option to ‘Disable’), so only people
those who know the ESSID of your wireless access point can get connected.
WMM WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) technology, which can improve the performance of certain
network applications, like audio/video streaming, network telephony (VoIP), and
others. When you enable WMM function, the access point will define the priority of
different kinds of data, to give higher priority to applications which require instant
responding. Therefore you can improve the performance of such network
applications.
VLAN ID (0:Untagged) If your network uses VLANs, you can assign the SSID to a VLAN on your network.
Client devices that associate using the SSID are grouped into this VLAN. The VLAN ID
range is from 1 to 4094. The VLAN ID is 0 by default, it means that disable the VLAN
function for the ESSID.