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TRENDnet User’s Guide
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• Enabled: Check the option to enable the Guest Network.
• Wireless Name (SSID): This acronym stands for Service Set Identifier and is the
name of your wireless network. It differentiates your wireless network from others
around you. It is recommended to use a different name from your primary wireless
network to a name that you can easily identify and differentiate from the primary.
You can reference your guests to access this network instead of the primary.
• Broadcast Network Name (SSID):
o Enabled allows wireless devices to search and discover your wireless network
name (also called SSID) broadcasted by your router.
o Disabled turns off the ability for wireless devices to find your network. It is still
possible for wireless devices to be configured to connect to your wireless
network. Disabling this setting will disable WPS functionality.
5. Under Security Policy, you can apply a different wireless security type and key to the
guest network. Please refer to page 15 to find out about different security types and
page 16 for wireless security configuration.
Note: You can repeat the steps to enable and configure additional SSIDs. You can
configure your wireless security settings for the additional SSIDs under Wireless
(2.4GHz or 5GHz)>Security. Under the Security Policy section, click the Wireless
Name (SSID) drop-down list to select the additional SSIDs to configure. Please refer
to page 15 to find out about different security types and page 16 for wireless
security configuration.
Wireless bridging using WDS (Wireless Distribution System)
Advanced > Wireless (2.4GHz or 5GHz) > WDS
Wireless bridging using WDS allows the device to create a wireless bridge with other
WDS supported wireless routers and access points configured in WDS mode to bridge
groups of network devices together wirelessly. Simultaneously, the router will also
function in access point mode allowing wireless client devices such as computers, game
consoles, mobile phones, etc. to connect in order to access network resources from
multiple groups of network devices as well as the Internet.
Note: You can create up to four WDS bridge connections on each wireless band
(2.4GHz and 5GHz). WDS (Wireless Distribution System) is not currently
standardized and may not connect to different model wireless routers or access
points, therefore, when using WDS, it is recommended to use the same model and
version for wireless bridging.
By default, your router functions in Access Point mode to allow wireless client devices to
connect and access your network resources and access the Internet.
In the diagram below, the blue color represents the WDS wireless bridged connections
between the routers. The green color represents access point mode connections
between wireless client devices and the routers.
Note: Before configuring WDS, please ensure the following first:
1. Make sure different IP addresses are assigned to each WDS supported wireless
device used for bridging. (ex. 192.168.10.1,192.168.10.2, 192.168.10.3) to avoid
IP address conflict. See page 34 for changing the LAN IP address.
2. If you are using more than one WDS supported router, please make sure the LAN
DHCP server is enabled on only one and disabled on all others to avoid IP address
conflict. See page 35 for DHCP server options.
3. Configure the same wireless channel and use the same on all WDS supported
wireless devices. See page 20 for configuring basic wireless settings.
4. Configure the same wireless security and key on all WDS supported devices. See
page 15 for configuring wireless security settings.