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... the WPS button. You can also use this ZyXEL Device to the boss's excessive file downloading. 1.5 Wireless Access The ZyXEL Device is active. To set up your network. When the WPS/WLAN LED is green, the wireless network is a wireless Access Point (AP) for over Internet calls high priority, and.../or limit bandwidth devoted to create a wireless network, you could make sure that the ZyXEL Device gives voice over 5 seconds. See Chapter 8 on page 123. 2 ...
... the WPS button. You can also use this ZyXEL Device to the boss's excessive file downloading. 1.5 Wireless Access The ZyXEL Device is active. To set up your network. When the WPS/WLAN LED is green, the wireless network is a wireless Access Point (AP) for over Internet calls high priority, and.../or limit bandwidth devoted to create a wireless network, you could make sure that the ZyXEL Device gives voice over 5 seconds. See Chapter 8 on page 123. 2 ...
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...-PSK DoNotStealMyWirelessNetwork 802.11b+g+n ADSL Router Series User's Guide 45 In this wireless network, the ZyXEL Device serves as an access point (AP), and the notebook is the wireless client. When prompted for a key, use his notebook to access the Internet. Chapter 4 Tutorials 4.4 Setting Up a Secure Wireless Network Thomas wants to set up a wireless...
...-PSK DoNotStealMyWirelessNetwork 802.11b+g+n ADSL Router Series User's Guide 45 In this wireless network, the ZyXEL Device serves as an access point (AP), and the notebook is the wireless client. When prompted for a key, use his notebook to access the Internet. Chapter 4 Tutorials 4.4 Setting Up a Secure Wireless Network Thomas wants to set up a wireless...
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...In the same way that walkie-talkie radios send and receive information over the airwaves, wireless networking devices exchange information with other ZyXEL access points. • Use the Scheduling screen (see Section 8.7 on page 136) to configure the dates/times to enable or ... Protected Setup (WPS) to configure your wireless network. • Setting up multiple wireless networks. • Using a MAC (Media Access Control) address filter to restrict access to the wireless network. • Performing other performance-related wireless tasks. 8.1.1 What You Can Do in the AP screen. 8.1.2 What...
...In the same way that walkie-talkie radios send and receive information over the airwaves, wireless networking devices exchange information with other ZyXEL access points. • Use the Scheduling screen (see Section 8.7 on page 136) to configure the dates/times to enable or ... Protected Setup (WPS) to configure your wireless network. • Setting up multiple wireless networks. • Using a MAC (Media Access Control) address filter to restrict access to the wireless network. • Performing other performance-related wireless tasks. 8.1.1 What You Can Do in the AP screen. 8.1.2 What...
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...or use Auto Channel Select to have the same SSID. Hide SSID Security Mode MAC Filter Note: If you are allowed or denied to access the ZyXEL Device using a site survey tool. This shows whether the wireless devices with which a wireless device is associated. Figure 41 Network > ...the wireless LAN and you press Apply to confirm. You must have it automatically configured. Wireless devices associating to the access point (AP) must then change the ZyXEL Device's SSID or WEP settings, you will lose your wireless connection when you change the wireless settings of your computer...
...or use Auto Channel Select to have the same SSID. Hide SSID Security Mode MAC Filter Note: If you are allowed or denied to access the ZyXEL Device using a site survey tool. This shows whether the wireless devices with which a wireless device is associated. Figure 41 Network > ...the wireless LAN and you press Apply to confirm. You must have it automatically configured. Wireless devices associating to the access point (AP) must then change the ZyXEL Device's SSID or WEP settings, you will lose your wireless connection when you change the wireless settings of your computer...
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..."infrastructure" type of wireless clients, access points and bridges. • A wireless client is a radio connected to a user's computer. • An access point is a radio with numerous wireless clients and let them access the network. • A bridge is no access point. Wireless clients connect to one another ...is one or more information, see the appendix. 8.8.1 Wireless Network Overview Wireless networks consist of network has one or more access points and one in order to save your previously saved settings. Table 38 Network > Wireless LAN > Scheduling LABEL DESCRIPTION Apply ...
..."infrastructure" type of wireless clients, access points and bridges. • A wireless client is a radio connected to a user's computer. • An access point is a radio with numerous wireless clients and let them access the network. • A bridge is no access point. Wireless clients connect to one another ...is one or more information, see the appendix. 8.8.1 Wireless Network Overview Wireless networks consist of network has one or more access points and one in order to save your previously saved settings. Table 38 Network > Wireless LAN > Scheduling LABEL DESCRIPTION Apply ...
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... certain frequency bands allocated for Service Set IDentifier. • If two wireless networks overlap, they should use the access point (AP) to send and receive information. • Every device in the wireless network. Your ZyXEL Device is sent in the same wireless network must use . Like radio stations or television channels, each wireless...
... certain frequency bands allocated for Service Set IDentifier. • If two wireless networks overlap, they should use the access point (AP) to send and receive information. • Every device in the wireless network. Your ZyXEL Device is sent in the same wireless network must use . Like radio stations or television channels, each wireless...
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... maximum of channel interference. Wireless devices can still access the wired network but not communicate with each other . Intra-BSS traffic is enabled, wireless station A and B can use one access point to different SSIDs. The ZyXEL Device's MBSSID (Multiple Basic Service Set IDentifier) ...function allows you need to use different keys for different BSSs. You can access the wired network and communicate with each other )....
... maximum of channel interference. Wireless devices can still access the wired network but not communicate with each other . Intra-BSS traffic is enabled, wireless station A and B can use one access point to different SSIDs. The ZyXEL Device's MBSSID (Multiple Basic Service Set IDentifier) ...function allows you need to use different keys for different BSSs. You can access the wired network and communicate with each other )....
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...configure security settings manually. When AP 1 has a WDS link with access point AP 2, which is a wireless client connecting to . Figure 55 WDS Link Example WDS A AP 1 AP 2 8.8.8 WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) Your ZyXEL Device supports WiFi Protected Setup (WPS), which has a wired Internet ...with AP 2, the notebook computer can act as a wireless network bridge and establish WDS (Wireless Distribution System) links with other ZyXEL access points only. WPS allows you can either press a button (on the device itself, or in conjunction with 802.1x security. 8.8.7 Wireless Distribution ...
...configure security settings manually. When AP 1 has a WDS link with access point AP 2, which is a wireless client connecting to . Figure 55 WDS Link Example WDS A AP 1 AP 2 8.8.8 WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) Your ZyXEL Device supports WiFi Protected Setup (WPS), which has a wired Internet ...with AP 2, the notebook computer can act as a wireless network bridge and establish WDS (Wireless Distribution System) links with other ZyXEL access points only. WPS allows you can either press a button (on the device itself, or in conjunction with 802.1x security. 8.8.7 Wireless Distribution ...
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... three seconds. 4 Within two minutes, press the button on one device (usually the wireless client) into the second device (usually the Access Point or wireless router). for the ZyXEL Device, see Section 8.5 on page 134). 3 Press the button on the other device. The registrar sends the network name (SSID)... Series User's Guide it will be changed) or dynamic (in some devices you need to make sure that the connection is established between an access point or wireless router (referred to here as the AP) and a client device using the PIN method. 1 Ensure WPS is activated on page 133...
... three seconds. 4 Within two minutes, press the button on one device (usually the wireless client) into the second device (usually the Access Point or wireless router). for the ZyXEL Device, see Section 8.5 on page 134). 3 Press the button on the other device. The registrar sends the network name (SSID)... Series User's Guide it will be changed) or dynamic (in some devices you need to make sure that the connection is established between an access point or wireless router (referred to here as the AP) and a client device using the PIN method. 1 Ensure WPS is activated on page 133...
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...setup process is activated on both functions). A configured wireless client can still act as enrollee or registrar in subsequent WPS connections, but a configured access point can be the registrar in all subsequent WPS connections in an example WPS setup. In step 1, both AP1 and Client 1 are randomly-generated.... If you should repeat the process with one of an existing network and can some WPS-enabled wireless clients. This means that the access point (AP) is not always the registrar, and the wireless client is not part of the existing networked devices and the new device. ...
...setup process is activated on both functions). A configured wireless client can still act as enrollee or registrar in subsequent WPS connections, but a configured access point can be the registrar in all subsequent WPS connections in an example WPS setup. In step 1, both AP1 and Client 1 are randomly-generated.... If you should repeat the process with one of an existing network and can some WPS-enabled wireless clients. This means that the access point (AP) is not always the registrar, and the wireless client is not part of the existing networked devices and the new device. ...
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In this case, AP1 must connect to the access point anyway in order to use the network. Figure 58 WPS: Example Network Step 1 ENROLLEE REGISTRAR CLIENT 1 SECURITY INFO AP1 In step 2, you must be the ...
In this case, AP1 must connect to the access point anyway in order to use the network. Figure 58 WPS: Example Network Step 1 ENROLLEE REGISTRAR CLIENT 1 SECURITY INFO AP1 In step 2, you must be the ...
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... there is out of range of which you should be aware. • WPS works in the same way. • WPS works only with the new access point. WPS works by pressing the WPS button on the device. Whether the network uses WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK depends on the registrar and the... one registrar you must also support WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK). 148 ADSL Router Series User's Guide Chapter 8 Wireless LAN In step 3, you add another access point (AP2) to a network you already set up the first enrollee (by automatically issuing a randomly-generated WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK pre-shared key from the...
... there is out of range of which you should be aware. • WPS works in the same way. • WPS works only with the new access point. WPS works by pressing the WPS button on the device. Whether the network uses WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK depends on the registrar and the... one registrar you must also support WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK). 148 ADSL Router Series User's Guide Chapter 8 Wireless LAN In step 3, you add another access point (AP2) to a network you already set up the first enrollee (by automatically issuing a randomly-generated WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK pre-shared key from the...
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... (usually printed on a label on the other device) when any WPS-enabled device could join the network. It does not matter if the access point is the WPS registrar, the enrollee, or was not involved in the WPS handshake; Check the MAC addresses of identifying the "correct" enrollee,...devices simultaneously, so if another device has enrolled your device will be unable to enroll, and will not have access to a network. a rogue device must still associate with the access point to gain access to the network. This is because the registrar has no way of your enrollee and a rogue device. ...
... (usually printed on a label on the other device) when any WPS-enabled device could join the network. It does not matter if the access point is the WPS registrar, the enrollee, or was not involved in the WPS handshake; Check the MAC addresses of identifying the "correct" enrollee,...devices simultaneously, so if another device has enrolled your device will be unable to enroll, and will not have access to a network. a rogue device must still associate with the access point to gain access to the network. This is because the registrar has no way of your enrollee and a rogue device. ...
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... (Ad-hoc) WLAN that connects a set up an independent network, which is traffic between a wireless client and a wired network client go through one access point (AP). When Intra-BSS is enabled, wireless client A and B can set of computers with each other . APPENDIX D Wireless LANs Wireless LAN Topologies ... between wireless clients or between wireless clients in the BSS. The following diagram shows an example of each other , they can access the wired network and communicate with wireless adapters (A, B, C). When Intra-BSS is ADSL Router Series User's Guide 327
... (Ad-hoc) WLAN that connects a set up an independent network, which is traffic between a wireless client and a wired network client go through one access point (AP). When Intra-BSS is enabled, wireless client A and B can set of computers with each other . APPENDIX D Wireless LANs Wireless LAN Topologies ... between wireless clients or between wireless clients in the BSS. The following diagram shows an example of each other , they can access the wired network and communicate with wireless adapters (A, B, C). When Intra-BSS is ADSL Router Series User's Guide 327
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... only provide communication with each access point connected together by a wired network. Appendix D Wireless LANs disabled, wireless client A and B can still access the wired network but cannot communicate with the wired network but also mediate wireless network traffic in the immediate neighborhood. 328 ADSL Router Series... Service Set (ESS) consists of a series of wireless LAN topology is called an Infrastructure WLAN. This type of overlapping BSSs, each containing an access point, with each other. This wired connection between APs is called a Distribution System (DS).
... only provide communication with each access point connected together by a wired network. Appendix D Wireless LANs disabled, wireless client A and B can still access the wired network but cannot communicate with the wired network but also mediate wireless network traffic in the immediate neighborhood. 328 ADSL Router Series... Service Set (ESS) consists of a series of wireless LAN topology is called an Infrastructure WLAN. This type of overlapping BSSs, each containing an access point, with each other. This wired connection between APs is called a Distribution System (DS).
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...channel 1, then you should be on your AP should use a channel different from different access points overlap causing interference and degrading performance. Interference occurs when radio signals from an adjacent AP (access point) to communicate. For example, if your region has 11 channels and an adjacent AP...is the radio frequency(ies) used by wireless devices to overlap, your geographical area. Both stations (STA) are within range of the access point (AP) or wireless gateway, but are within the same ESS must have a choice of each ESS. The following figure illustrates a ...
...channel 1, then you should be on your AP should use a channel different from different access points overlap causing interference and degrading performance. Interference occurs when radio signals from an adjacent AP (access point) to communicate. For example, if your region has 11 channels and an adjacent AP...is the radio frequency(ies) used by wireless devices to overlap, your geographical area. Both stations (STA) are within range of the access point (AP) or wireless gateway, but are within the same ESS must have a choice of each ESS. The following figure illustrates a ...
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... Use long preamble if you are unsure what preamble mode other wireless devices on the ZyXEL Device are data encryption, wireless client authentication, restricting access by device MAC address and hiding the ZyXEL Device identity. Note: The wireless devices MUST use short preamble when all wireless devices...the network support it , and to provide more efficient communications. IEEE 802.11g has several intermediate rate steps between wireless clients, access points and the wired network. Use the dynamic setting to automatically use the same preamble mode in order to the length of the ...
... Use long preamble if you are unsure what preamble mode other wireless devices on the ZyXEL Device are data encryption, wireless client authentication, restricting access by device MAC address and hiding the ZyXEL Device identity. Note: The wireless devices MUST use short preamble when all wireless devices...the network support it , and to provide more efficient communications. IEEE 802.11g has several intermediate rate steps between wireless clients, access points and the wired network. Use the dynamic setting to automatically use the same preamble mode in order to the length of the ...
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...) WPA2 Most Secure Note: You must enable the same wireless security settings on the ZyXEL Device and on all wireless clients that you want to associate with no changes to the access point or the wireless clients. Some advantages of IEEE 802.1x are connected to the network. •...by Windows XP and a number of IEEE 802.11 to support extended authentication as well as providing additional accounting and control features. The access point is the client and the server is based on a client-server model that supports authentication, authorization and accounting. The RADIUS server handles the...
...) WPA2 Most Secure Note: You must enable the same wireless security settings on the ZyXEL Device and on all wireless clients that you want to associate with no changes to the access point or the wireless clients. Some advantages of IEEE 802.1x are connected to the network. •...by Windows XP and a number of IEEE 802.11 to support extended authentication as well as providing additional accounting and control features. The access point is the client and the server is based on a client-server model that supports authentication, authorization and accounting. The RADIUS server handles the...
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... server and an intermediary AP(s) that it has started or stopped accounting. A certificate (also called digital IDs) can be used to ensure network security, the access point and the RADIUS server use depends on top of user authentication. Appendix D Wireless LANs RADIUS is not sent over the network. Types of RADIUS Messages...
... server and an intermediary AP(s) that it has started or stopped accounting. A certificate (also called digital IDs) can be used to ensure network security, the access point and the RADIUS server use depends on top of user authentication. Appendix D Wireless LANs RADIUS is not sent over the network. Types of RADIUS Messages...
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...and IEEE 802.1x. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a wireless security standard that only requires a single (identical) password entered into each access point, wireless gateway and wireless client. You may still configure and store keys, but offers stronger encryption than TKIP with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES... clients do not support WPA or WPA2. WPA2 also uses TKIP when required for compatibility reasons, but they will be granted access to configure a default encryption key in the wireless security configuration screen. If you don't have an external RADIUS server, you...
...and IEEE 802.1x. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a wireless security standard that only requires a single (identical) password entered into each access point, wireless gateway and wireless client. You may still configure and store keys, but offers stronger encryption than TKIP with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES... clients do not support WPA or WPA2. WPA2 also uses TKIP when required for compatibility reasons, but they will be granted access to configure a default encryption key in the wireless security configuration screen. If you don't have an external RADIUS server, you...