User's Manual

Chapter 7 Wireless LAN

NBG-510S User’s Guide

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

See the rest of this chapter for information on the other labels in this screen.

7.3.1 No Security

Select No Security to allow wireless stations to communicate with the wireless clients without

any data encryption.

" If you do not enable any wireless security on your ZyXEL Device, your network

is accessible to any wireless networking device that is within range.

Figure 45 Network > Wireless LAN: No Security

Table 7 Network > Wireless LAN

LABEL DESCRIPTION

Enable a

Wireless LAN

Click the check box to activate wireless LAN.

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.

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.

Channel

Selection

The range of radio frequencies used by IEEE 802.1 wireless devices is called a

channel. Select a channel ID that is not already in use by a neighboring device.

Select a channel from the drop-down list box. The options vary depending on

whether you are using A or B/G frequency band and the country you are in.

Select Auto Channel to have the ZyXEL Device automatically find a suitable

channel to use.

Operating

Channel

This displays the channel the ZyXEL Device is currently using.

Apply Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyXEL Device.

Cancel Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.