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...quickly pinpoint the information you require. You can also enter text directly into a "hand" with which page-range you want to configure the N220 using the ZyXEL utility. This turns your cursor into the toolbar in Reader. • To quickly move it from http://www.adobe.com. • ... Quick Start Guide The Quick Start Guide is intended for support documents. About This User's Guide About This User's Guide Intended Audience This manual is designed to help you get up your network and configuring for Internet access. • Online Help Embedded web help for descriptions of individual...
...quickly pinpoint the information you require. You can also enter text directly into a "hand" with which page-range you want to configure the N220 using the ZyXEL utility. This turns your cursor into the toolbar in Reader. • To quickly move it from http://www.adobe.com. • ... Quick Start Guide The Quick Start Guide is intended for support documents. About This User's Guide About This User's Guide Intended Audience This manual is designed to help you get up your network and configuring for Internet access. • Online Help Embedded web help for descriptions of individual...
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About This User's Guide Customer Support Should problems arise that you took to solve it. 4 N220 User's Guide Please have the following information ready when you contact the vendor. • Product model and serial number. • Date that cannot be solved by using this manual, please contact your device. • Brief description of the problem and the steps you received your vendor for customer service.
About This User's Guide Customer Support Should problems arise that you took to solve it. 4 N220 User's Guide Please have the following information ready when you contact the vendor. • Product model and serial number. • Date that cannot be solved by using this manual, please contact your device. • Brief description of the problem and the steps you received your vendor for customer service.
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Table of Contents 2.3.1 Manually Connecting to a Wireless LAN 29 2.3.2 Creating and Using a Profile 31 2.4 Configuring the N220 as an AP 34 Chapter 3 Wireless LANs...37 3.1 Overview ...37 3.1.1 What You Can Do in This Section 37 3.1.2 What You Need to Know 37 ... in Windows Vista 71 4.7.1 Using PEAP in Vista 72 4.7.2 Using TLS in This Section 49 4.1.2 What You Need to Know 49 4.1.3 Before You Begin ...50 4.2 ZyXEL Utility Screen Summary 50 4.3 The Link Info Screen ...51 4.3.1 Trend Chart ...53 4.4 The Site Survey Screen ...54 4.4.1 Security Settings ...55 4.4.2 Summary Screen ...61 4.5...
Table of Contents 2.3.1 Manually Connecting to a Wireless LAN 29 2.3.2 Creating and Using a Profile 31 2.4 Configuring the N220 as an AP 34 Chapter 3 Wireless LANs...37 3.1 Overview ...37 3.1.1 What You Can Do in This Section 37 3.1.2 What You Need to Know 37 ... in Windows Vista 71 4.7.1 Using PEAP in Vista 72 4.7.2 Using TLS in This Section 49 4.1.2 What You Need to Know 49 4.1.3 Before You Begin ...50 4.2 ZyXEL Utility Screen Summary 50 4.3 The Link Info Screen ...51 4.3.1 Trend Chart ...53 4.4 The Site Survey Screen ...54 4.4.1 Security Settings ...55 4.4.2 Summary Screen ...61 4.5...
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... 2 Tutorial 2.3 Connecting to an AP Without Using WPS There are three ways to connect the wireless client (the N220) to a network without using the Site Survey screen. 1 Open the ZyXEL utility and click the Site Survey tab to the AP or peer computer. Before you install the...nothing and leave the wireless client to automatically scan for and connect to any available network that means there is no wireless security configured. • Manually connect to a network (see Section 2.3.1 on page 29). • Configure a profile to have the wireless client automatically connect to a specific ...
... 2 Tutorial 2.3 Connecting to an AP Without Using WPS There are three ways to connect the wireless client (the N220) to a network without using the Site Survey screen. 1 Open the ZyXEL utility and click the Site Survey tab to the AP or peer computer. Before you install the...nothing and leave the wireless client to automatically scan for and connect to any available network that means there is no wireless security configured. • Manually connect to a network (see Section 2.3.1 on page 29). • Configure a profile to have the wireless client automatically connect to a specific ...
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...to configure a new profile. Click Add to 32 printable ASCII characters). Select Infrastructure and either manually enter or select the AP's SSID in the Scan Info box. Chapter 2 Tutorial 1 Open the ZyXEL utility and click the Profile tab to open the screen as shown. You can also configure your... profile for available wireless networks, which are displayed in the Scan Info table and click Select. 32 N220 User's Guide Figure 13 ZyXEL Utility: Profile 2 The Add New...
...to configure a new profile. Click Add to 32 printable ASCII characters). Select Infrastructure and either manually enter or select the AP's SSID in the Scan Info box. Chapter 2 Tutorial 1 Open the ZyXEL utility and click the Profile tab to open the screen as shown. You can also configure your... profile for available wireless networks, which are displayed in the Scan Info table and click Select. 32 N220 User's Guide Figure 13 ZyXEL Utility: Profile 2 The Add New...
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... IEEE 802.1x standard outlines enhanced security methods for ease-of this feature in order to support multiple types of the ZyXEL utility and entering them manually as the default key at the time of authentication you use same settings on top of the IEEE 802.1x transport...EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) is implemented for both the wireless station and the AP or peer computer. • Auto authentication mode allows the N220 to enable the wireless LAN security and use depends on the RADIUS server and an intermediary AP(s) that runs on both the authentication of wireless...
... IEEE 802.1x standard outlines enhanced security methods for ease-of this feature in order to support multiple types of the ZyXEL utility and entering them manually as the default key at the time of authentication you use same settings on top of the IEEE 802.1x transport...EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) is implemented for both the wireless station and the AP or peer computer. • Auto authentication mode allows the N220 to enable the wireless LAN security and use depends on the RADIUS server and an intermediary AP(s) that runs on both the authentication of wireless...
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...standard that only requires a single (identical) password entered into each access point, wireless gateway and wireless client. Key differences between two devices. N220 User's Guide 41 If both an AP and the wireless clients support WPA2 and you have a wired connection to authenticate users and a CA... allows you to quickly set up a wireless network with Cipher block chaining Message authentication code Protocol (CCMP) to configure security settings manually. Both WPA and WPA2 improve data encryption by the WiFi Alliance. Select WEP only when the AP and/or wireless clients do ...
...standard that only requires a single (identical) password entered into each access point, wireless gateway and wireless client. Key differences between two devices. N220 User's Guide 41 If both an AP and the wireless clients support WPA2 and you have a wired connection to authenticate users and a CA... allows you to quickly set up a wireless network with Cipher block chaining Message authentication code Protocol (CCMP) to configure security settings manually. Both WPA and WPA2 improve data encryption by the WiFi Alliance. Select WEP only when the AP and/or wireless clients do ...
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... type or Enter 13 ASCII characters (case sensitive) ranging from "a-z", "A-Z" and "0-9" (for example, MyKey) for ASCII key type. Click Next to confirm your N220 to manually enter the WEP keys. See Section 4.7 on page 71 for the WEP keys must be set up exactly the same on setting up your selections... If you select 128 Bits in the WEP field, Enter either 10 hexadecimal digits in Windows Vista. Figure 34 Security Setting: WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK N220 User's Guide 57 Click Back to go to the Site Survey screen to select and connect to configure WPA or WPA2 is a number between 1 ...
... type or Enter 13 ASCII characters (case sensitive) ranging from "a-z", "A-Z" and "0-9" (for example, MyKey) for ASCII key type. Click Next to confirm your N220 to manually enter the WEP keys. See Section 4.7 on page 71 for the WEP keys must be set up exactly the same on setting up your selections... If you select 128 Bits in the WEP field, Enter either 10 hexadecimal digits in Windows Vista. Figure 34 Security Setting: WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK N220 User's Guide 57 Click Back to go to the Site Survey screen to select and connect to configure WPA or WPA2 is a number between 1 ...
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... in this screen. Figure 39 Profile: Add a New Profile The following table describes the labels in the Profile screen. Otherwise, enter Any to have the N220 associate to an AP. denotes that the wireless device is in infrastructure mode but the wireless security is deactivated. Table 15 Profile: Add a New Profile.... SSID Select an available wireless device in the Scan Info table and click Select, or enter the SSID of each AP or peer device. 64 N220 User's Guide An Add New Profile screen displays as shown next. Select Ad-Hoc to associate to associate in this field...
... in this screen. Figure 39 Profile: Add a New Profile The following table describes the labels in the Profile screen. Otherwise, enter Any to have the N220 associate to an AP. denotes that the wireless device is in infrastructure mode but the wireless security is deactivated. Table 15 Profile: Add a New Profile.... SSID Select an available wireless device in the Scan Info table and click Select, or enter the SSID of each AP or peer device. 64 N220 User's Guide An Add New Profile screen displays as shown next. Select Ad-Hoc to associate to associate in this field...
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Click to manually enter a transmit key. N220 User's Guide 81 Enter either 26 hexadecimal digits in the range of "A-F", "a-f" and "09" (for example, 11AA22BB33) for HEX key type. ASCII WEP keys are ...
Click to manually enter a transmit key. N220 User's Guide 81 Enter either 26 hexadecimal digits in the range of "A-F", "a-f" and "09" (for example, 11AA22BB33) for HEX key type. ASCII WEP keys are ...
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If you need to use TCP/IP on your network. N220 User's Guide 101 See the product specifications for it to be able to communicate with the other devices on your computer. Windows Vista/XP/2000, ... also apply to Windows 2000 and Windows NT. APPENDIX A Setting Up Your Computer's IP Address Note: Your specific N220 may not support all versions of UNIX/LINUX include the software components you manually assign IP information instead of the operating systems described in this appendix, you can set up an IP address...
If you need to use TCP/IP on your network. N220 User's Guide 101 See the product specifications for it to be able to communicate with the other devices on your computer. Windows Vista/XP/2000, ... also apply to Windows 2000 and Windows NT. APPENDIX A Setting Up Your Computer's IP Address Note: Your specific N220 may not support all versions of UNIX/LINUX include the software components you manually assign IP information instead of the operating systems described in this appendix, you can set up an IP address...
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Figure 86 Mac OS X 10.4: Network Preferences > TCP/IP Tab. 5 For statically assigned settings, do the following: • From the Configure IPv4 list, select Manually. • In the IP Address field, type your IP address. • In the Subnet Mask field, type your subnet mask. Appendix A Setting Up Your Computer's IP Address 4 For dynamically assigned settings, select Using DHCP from the Configure IPv4 list in the TCP/IP tab. N220 User's Guide 115
Figure 86 Mac OS X 10.4: Network Preferences > TCP/IP Tab. 5 For statically assigned settings, do the following: • From the Configure IPv4 list, select Manually. • In the IP Address field, type your IP address. • In the Subnet Mask field, type your subnet mask. Appendix A Setting Up Your Computer's IP Address 4 For dynamically assigned settings, select Using DHCP from the Configure IPv4 list in the TCP/IP tab. N220 User's Guide 115
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Appendix A Setting Up Your Computer's IP Address 3 When the Network preferences pane opens, select Ethernet from the list of available connection types. Figure 91 Mac OS X 10.5: Network Preferences > Ethernet 4 From the Configure list, select Using DHCP for dynamically assigned settings. 5 For statically assigned settings, do the following: • From the Configure list, select Manually. • In the IP Address field, enter your IP address. • In the Subnet Mask field, enter your subnet mask. 118 N220 User's Guide
Appendix A Setting Up Your Computer's IP Address 3 When the Network preferences pane opens, select Ethernet from the list of available connection types. Figure 91 Mac OS X 10.5: Network Preferences > Ethernet 4 From the Configure list, select Using DHCP for dynamically assigned settings. 5 For statically assigned settings, do the following: • From the Configure list, select Manually. • In the IP Address field, enter your IP address. • In the Subnet Mask field, enter your subnet mask. 118 N220 User's Guide
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...in a handshake to create temporal encryption keys. Table 31 Wireless Security Relational Matrix AUTHENTICATION METHOD/ KEY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL ENCRYPTIO N METHOD ENTER MANUAL KEY IEEE 802.1X Open None No Disable Enable without Dynamic WEP Key Open WEP No Enable with Dynamic WEP Key Yes Enable ... TKIP/AES No Enable WPA-PSK TKIP/AES Yes Disable WPA2 TKIP/AES No Enable WPA2-PSK TKIP/AES Yes Disable 144 N220 User's Guide Figure 114 WPA(2)-PSK Authentication Security Parameters Summary Refer to this table to see what other security parameters you configure...
...in a handshake to create temporal encryption keys. Table 31 Wireless Security Relational Matrix AUTHENTICATION METHOD/ KEY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL ENCRYPTIO N METHOD ENTER MANUAL KEY IEEE 802.1X Open None No Disable Enable without Dynamic WEP Key Open WEP No Enable with Dynamic WEP Key Yes Enable ... TKIP/AES No Enable WPA-PSK TKIP/AES Yes Disable WPA2 TKIP/AES No Enable WPA2-PSK TKIP/AES Yes Disable 144 N220 User's Guide Figure 114 WPA(2)-PSK Authentication Security Parameters Summary Refer to this table to see what other security parameters you configure...
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N220 User's Guide 149 Note: If the network to which you want to join the network, or select a network and click Connect. Appendix C Windows Wireless Management Figure 117 Vista: Additional Information 2 Double-click the network's name to connect does not display, see the section on setting up a connection manually on page 151.
N220 User's Guide 149 Note: If the network to which you want to join the network, or select a network and click Connect. Appendix C Windows Wireless Management Figure 117 Vista: Additional Information 2 Double-click the network's name to connect does not display, see the section on setting up a connection manually on page 151.
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...selecting the network's name from the list. Appendix C Windows Wireless Management Figure 120 Vista: Successful Connection 4 If you start up your network connection manually N220 User's Guide 151 If you do not have to configure its settings again. 5 Select Start this connection automatically if you want Windows to always...) you want to connect does not appear in the Connect to window (if your network's SSID is selected. Connecting to a Network Manually If the wireless network to which you can connect manually each time by clicking Start > Connect to configure your computer.
...selecting the network's name from the list. Appendix C Windows Wireless Management Figure 120 Vista: Successful Connection 4 If you start up your network connection manually N220 User's Guide 151 If you do not have to configure its settings again. 5 Select Start this connection automatically if you want Windows to always...) you want to connect does not appear in the Connect to window (if your network's SSID is selected. Connecting to a Network Manually If the wireless network to which you can connect manually each time by clicking Start > Connect to configure your computer.
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...The following table describes the labels in this field refers to the fact that if you do not want to try to connect to connect manually each time. The types of security used by your computer's wireless client). When you will need to this box unchecked, you use a... packets, which contain the network's SSID and could be hidden. Table 32 Vista: Connect Manually LABEL DESCRIPTION Network name Enter your network uses WEP or WPA(2)-Personal security, enter the key here. N220 User's Guide 153 Security Key / Passphrase Display Characters Start this screen. The warning in ...
...The following table describes the labels in this field refers to the fact that if you do not want to try to connect to connect manually each time. The types of security used by your computer's wireless client). When you will need to this box unchecked, you use a... packets, which contain the network's SSID and could be hidden. Table 32 Vista: Connect Manually LABEL DESCRIPTION Network name Enter your network uses WEP or WPA(2)-Personal security, enter the key here. N220 User's Guide 153 Security Key / Passphrase Display Characters Start this screen. The warning in ...
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...settings. Figure 123 Vista: Successfully Added Network 4 If you want to make any changes to the settings you have finished filling in Windows Vista. 154 N220 User's Guide In the window that displays, double-click the new network's name to connect to .... Setting Up An Ad-Hoc Network Take the ...displays. the following steps to set up your settings and move on to the next page. Appendix C Windows Wireless Management Table 32 Vista: Connect Manually LABEL DESCRIPTION Next Click this to stop setting up a wireless connection between two computers in the fields, click Next.
...settings. Figure 123 Vista: Successfully Added Network 4 If you want to make any changes to the settings you have finished filling in Windows Vista. 154 N220 User's Guide In the window that displays, double-click the new network's name to connect to .... Setting Up An Ad-Hoc Network Take the ...displays. the following steps to set up your settings and move on to the next page. Appendix C Windows Wireless Management Table 32 Vista: Connect Manually LABEL DESCRIPTION Next Click this to stop setting up a wireless connection between two computers in the fields, click Next.
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Click Add to a new network, the new network is added in the Preferred networks table automatically. N220 User's Guide 171 Appendix C Windows Wireless Management 2 Whenever the N220 tries to connect to add a preferred network into the list manually. Select a network and click Move up or Move down to change it's order, click Remove to delete it or click Properties to view the security, authentication or connection information of the selected network.
Click Add to a new network, the new network is added in the Preferred networks table automatically. N220 User's Guide 171 Appendix C Windows Wireless Management 2 Whenever the N220 tries to connect to add a preferred network into the list manually. Select a network and click Move up or Move down to change it's order, click Remove to delete it or click Properties to view the security, authentication or connection information of the selected network.
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...to change without notice. This publication is subject to make changes in any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, photocopying, manual, or otherwise, without notice. Trademarks Trademarks mentioned in any form or by any products described herein without the prior written permission of their... complies with Part 15 of others. Neither does it convey any products, or software described herein. Published by ZyXEL Communications Corporation. N220 User's Guide 179 All rights reserved. APPENDIX E Legal Information Copyright Copyright © 2010 by...
...to change without notice. This publication is subject to make changes in any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, photocopying, manual, or otherwise, without notice. Trademarks Trademarks mentioned in any form or by any products described herein without the prior written permission of their... complies with Part 15 of others. Neither does it convey any products, or software described herein. Published by ZyXEL Communications Corporation. N220 User's Guide 179 All rights reserved. APPENDIX E Legal Information Copyright Copyright © 2010 by...