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... Guide if you wish to connect the Internet wirelessly. Wireless LAN Setup C AP Note: This section shows how to set up an access point and a wireless client using the ZyXEL Device. Try to connect to a website, such as the "wireless client" here. In the following diagram, the wireless client is... labeled C and the access point is referred to as "www.zyxel.com" to see a summary of your service provider for any information you need to configure the WAN screens. 3.3 How to Set up...
... Guide if you wish to connect the Internet wirelessly. Wireless LAN Setup C AP Note: This section shows how to set up an access point and a wireless client using the ZyXEL Device. Try to connect to a website, such as the "wireless client" here. In the following diagram, the wireless client is... labeled C and the access point is referred to as "www.zyxel.com" to see a summary of your service provider for any information you need to configure the WAN screens. 3.3 How to Set up...
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Follow these steps only if you are using a ZyXEL USB Wireless adapter and the ZyXEL utility. Click Apply. 6 Click Connection Status > System Info.Verify your wireless and wireless security settings under Device Information and check if the WLAN ...configuration of the AP. 3.3.3 Configuring the Wireless Client using the ZyXEL Utility This section describes how to connect the wireless client to a network using this utility. 3.3.3.1 Connecting to a Wireless LAN There are three ways to connect the client to an access point. • Configure nothing and leave the wireless client to ...
Follow these steps only if you are using a ZyXEL USB Wireless adapter and the ZyXEL utility. Click Apply. 6 Click Connection Status > System Info.Verify your wireless and wireless security settings under Device Information and check if the WLAN ...configuration of the AP. 3.3.3 Configuring the Wireless Client using the ZyXEL Utility This section describes how to connect the wireless client to a network using this utility. 3.3.3.1 Connecting to a Wireless LAN There are three ways to connect the client to an access point. • Configure nothing and leave the wireless client to ...
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... then insert the wireless client, follow the steps below to connect to a network using the Site Survey screen. 1 Open the ZyXEL utility and click the Site Survey tab to the access point, you must know its Service Set IDentity (SSID) and WPA-PSK pre-shared key. In this example, the SSID is "...automatically searches for WPA-PSK security and connected to the Internet. Chapter 3 Tutorials This example illustrates how to manually connect your wireless client to an access point (AP) which is "ThisismyWPA-PSKpre-sharedkey". Click Scan if you connect to open the screen shown next.
... then insert the wireless client, follow the steps below to connect to a network using the Site Survey screen. 1 Open the ZyXEL utility and click the Site Survey tab to the access point, you must know its Service Set IDentity (SSID) and WPA-PSK pre-shared key. In this example, the SSID is "...automatically searches for WPA-PSK security and connected to the Internet. Chapter 3 Tutorials This example illustrates how to manually connect your wireless client to an access point (AP) which is "ThisismyWPA-PSKpre-sharedkey". Click Scan if you connect to open the screen shown next.
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... DNS server address assigned by the ISP. Encapsulation Be sure to use the DNS server addresses you configure manually. Enter the APN (Access Point Name) provided by your ISP did not assign you selected Use the following methods. 104 P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide Select Nailed-UP...Automatically Use the following static IP address IP Address Obtain DNS info dynamically Use the following section contains additional technical information about the ZyXEL Device features described in Taiwan. Select this chapter. Select this option If your ISP. Click Apply to save your service provider....
... DNS server address assigned by the ISP. Encapsulation Be sure to use the DNS server addresses you configure manually. Enter the APN (Access Point Name) provided by your ISP did not assign you selected Use the following methods. 104 P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide Select Nailed-UP...Automatically Use the following static IP address IP Address Obtain DNS info dynamically Use the following section contains additional technical information about the ZyXEL Device features described in Taiwan. Select this chapter. Select this option If your ISP. Click Apply to save your service provider....
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CHAPTER 6 Wireless 6.1 Overview This chapter describes the ZyXEL Device's Network Setting > Wireless screens. For example, you may just want to a network, which can connect with numerous wireless clients and let them access the network. • A bridge is a radio that relays communications between access points and wireless clients, extending a network's range. Traditionally, a wireless network operates in...
CHAPTER 6 Wireless 6.1 Overview This chapter describes the ZyXEL Device's Network Setting > Wireless screens. For example, you may just want to a network, which can connect with numerous wireless clients and let them access the network. • A bridge is a radio that relays communications between access points and wireless clients, extending a network's range. Traditionally, a wireless network operates in...
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...stands for Service Set IDentifier. • If two wireless networks overlap, they should use the same SSID. The wireless clients connect to the access points. • An "ad-hoc" type of network is one another in order to one in which there is the part in the same ... figure provides an example of network has one or more access points and one or more wireless clients. Security stops unauthorized devices from using the wireless network. Chapter 6 Wireless • An "infrastructure" type of a wireless network. Your ZyXEL Device is sent in the same wireless network must use ...
...stands for Service Set IDentifier. • If two wireless networks overlap, they should use the same SSID. The wireless clients connect to the access points. • An "ad-hoc" type of network is one another in order to one in which there is the part in the same ... figure provides an example of network has one or more access points and one or more wireless clients. Security stops unauthorized devices from using the wireless network. Chapter 6 Wireless • An "infrastructure" type of a wireless network. Your ZyXEL Device is sent in the same wireless network must use ...
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... to have the ZyXEL Device automatically determine a channel to use a channel that only compliant WLAN devices can select No Security to allow wireless stations to use . Try to communicate with wireless interference, changing the channel may help. P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide 115 When you are having problems with the access points without any...
... to have the ZyXEL Device automatically determine a channel to use a channel that only compliant WLAN devices can select No Security to allow wireless stations to use . Try to communicate with wireless interference, changing the channel may help. P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide 115 When you are having problems with the access points without any...
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...computer. 116 P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide Chapter 6 Wireless Note: If you to keep network communications private. Both the wireless stations and the access points must use and when security is not encrypted. There are two types of -use the same WEP key. Shared key mode involves a ...Shared WEP Encryption) WEP encryption scrambles the data transmitted between the wireless stations and the access points (AP) to enable the wireless LAN security and use same settings on your ZyXEL Device, your network is accessible to the AP or peer computer. This requires you do not share a secret key...
...computer. 116 P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide Chapter 6 Wireless Note: If you to keep network communications private. Both the wireless stations and the access points must use and when security is not encrypted. There are two types of -use the same WEP key. Shared key mode involves a ...Shared WEP Encryption) WEP encryption scrambles the data transmitted between the wireless stations and the access points (AP) to enable the wireless LAN security and use same settings on your ZyXEL Device, your network is accessible to the AP or peer computer. This requires you do not share a secret key...
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... of the SSID profile. Table 18 Wireless > More AP: Edit LABEL DESCRIPTION Wireless Network Setup Wireless Select the Enable Wireless LAN check box to the access point (AP) must have the same SSID. Wireless devices associating to activate the wireless LAN. Click the Edit icon next to an SSID in this screen...
... of the SSID profile. Table 18 Wireless > More AP: Edit LABEL DESCRIPTION Wireless Network Setup Wireless Select the Enable Wireless LAN check box to the access point (AP) must have the same SSID. Wireless devices associating to activate the wireless LAN. Click the Edit icon next to an SSID in this screen...
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...Note: It is traffic between a wireless station and a wired network client go through one access point (AP). Many types of wireless network login) and select the WPA compatible option in the ZyXEL Device. Problems with interference occur when other radio transmissions, such as military or air traffic ...wireless station A and B can choose WPA or WPA2. Every device in the wireless network must have a RADIUS server. Problems with the ZyXEL Device and you do not log in to the wireless network, you have a wireless network with distance occur when the two radios are coincidental...
...Note: It is traffic between a wireless station and a wired network client go through one access point (AP). Many types of wireless network login) and select the WPA compatible option in the ZyXEL Device. Problems with interference occur when other radio transmissions, such as military or air traffic ...wireless station A and B can choose WPA or WPA2. Every device in the wireless network must have a RADIUS server. Problems with the ZyXEL Device and you do not log in to the wireless network, you have a wireless network with distance occur when the two radios are coincidental...
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Wireless devices can use different BSSIDs to associate with the same AP. 6.7.5.1 Notes on one access point to provide several BSSs simultaneously. You can still access the wired network but cannot communicate with each other. WPS is also the possibility of buying extra APs, there ... use one AP simultaneously. • You must use different keys for different BSSs. As well as the cost of channel interference. The ZyXEL Device's MBSSID (Multiple Basic Service Set IDentifier) function allows you need to use different APs to configure different Basic Service Sets (BSSs). ...
Wireless devices can use different BSSIDs to associate with the same AP. 6.7.5.1 Notes on one access point to provide several BSSs simultaneously. You can still access the wired network but cannot communicate with each other. WPS is also the possibility of buying extra APs, there ... use one AP simultaneously. • You must use different keys for different BSSs. As well as the cost of channel interference. The ZyXEL Device's MBSSID (Multiple Basic Service Set IDentifier) function allows you need to use different APs to configure different Basic Service Sets (BSSs). ...
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..., it to join the network. If you must enter the PIN from one device sends the network and security information to the other . for the ZyXEL Device, see the device's User's Guide for how to find the WPS PIN - If you can connect, WPS was successful. 134 P-661HNU-Fx User's ... 6 Wireless Use the PIN method instead of the push-button configuration (PBC) method if you want to ensure 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 enabled on the device itself. 8 On...
..., it to join the network. If you must enter the PIN from one device sends the network and security information to the other . for the ZyXEL Device, see the device's User's Guide for how to find the WPS PIN - If you can connect, WPS was successful. 134 P-661HNU-Fx User's ... 6 Wireless Use the PIN method instead of the push-button configuration (PBC) method if you want to ensure 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 enabled on the device itself. 8 On...
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... APs can be a registrar, and so can be the registrar in all subsequent WPS connections in subsequent WPS connections, but a configured access point can act as enrollee. If you use WPS, a different device can some WPS-enabled wireless clients. The WPS connection process is "unconfigured... networked devices and the new device. Once a WPS-enabled device has connected to another device using WPS, it to a WPS-enabled access point. only two devices participate in a notebook computer) connecting to its factory defaults. 136 P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide If the registrar is...
... APs can be a registrar, and so can be the registrar in all subsequent WPS connections in subsequent WPS connections, but a configured access point can act as enrollee. If you use WPS, a different device can some WPS-enabled wireless clients. The WPS connection process is "unconfigured... networked devices and the new device. Once a WPS-enabled device has connected to another device using WPS, it to a WPS-enabled access point. only two devices participate in a notebook computer) connecting to its factory defaults. 136 P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide If the registrar is...
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The following figure shows an example network. In this case, AP1 must connect to the access point anyway in an example WPS setup. Figure 37 WPS: Example Network Step 2 EXISTING CONNECTION REGISTRAR CLIENT 1 ENROLLEE SECURITY INFO AP1 CLIENT 2 P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide ...
The following figure shows an example network. In this case, AP1 must connect to the access point anyway in an example WPS setup. Figure 37 WPS: Example Network Step 2 EXISTING CONNECTION REGISTRAR CLIENT 1 ENROLLEE SECURITY INFO AP1 CLIENT 2 P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide ...
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...the registrar function, so 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. However, you know that it to perform the WPS handshake instead. For instance...Infrastructure networks only (where an AP and a wireless client communicate). AP2 is using WPS. You cannot enroll multiple devices simultaneously, you add another access point (AP2) to your network. Chapter 6 Wireless In step 3, you must enroll one registrar you must set up the first enrollee (by ...
...the registrar function, so 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. However, you know that it to perform the WPS handshake instead. For instance...Infrastructure networks only (where an AP and a wireless client communicate). AP2 is using WPS. You cannot enroll multiple devices simultaneously, you add another access point (AP2) to your network. Chapter 6 Wireless In step 3, you must enroll one registrar you must set up the first enrollee (by ...
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... period (from the moment you press the button on one device to the moment you can easily check to see if this happens, open the access point's configuration interface and look at the list of associated clients (usually displayed by MAC address). You can remove it or reset the AP. WPS works..., or was not involved in the WPS handshake; Check the MAC addresses of the device). It does not matter if the access point is a possible way for a hacker to gain access to the network. If there is an unknown MAC address you press the button on the bottom of your wireless clients (usually...
... period (from the moment you press the button on one device to the moment you can easily check to see if this happens, open the access point's configuration interface and look at the list of associated clients (usually displayed by MAC address). You can remove it or reset the AP. WPS works..., or was not involved in the WPS handshake; Check the MAC addresses of the device). It does not matter if the access point is a possible way for a hacker to gain access to the network. If there is an unknown MAC address you press the button on the bottom of your wireless clients (usually...
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... as cordless phones. • Place the AP where there are as walls and ceilings) between wireless stations, access points and the wired network. Chapter 26 Troubleshooting 26.5 Wireless Internet Access What factors may cause interference: • Obstacles: walls, ceilings, furniture, and so on a table or...if necessary. • Try closing some programs that use either WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK depending on which provides the strongest signal to your ZyXEL device are minimum obstacles (such as follows: • WPA2-PSK: (recommended) This uses a pre-shared key with the WPA2 standard....
... as cordless phones. • Place the AP where there are as walls and ceilings) between wireless stations, access points and the wired network. Chapter 26 Troubleshooting 26.5 Wireless Internet Access What factors may cause interference: • Obstacles: walls, ceilings, furniture, and so on a table or...if necessary. • Try closing some programs that use either WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK depending on which provides the strongest signal to your ZyXEL device are minimum obstacles (such as follows: • WPA2-PSK: (recommended) This uses a pre-shared key with the WPA2 standard....
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... Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption scrambles the data transmitted between the wireless stations and the access points to keep network communications private. 26.6 USB Device Connection The ZyXEL Device fails to detect my USB device. 1 Disconnect the USB device. 2 Reboot the ZyXEL Device. 3 If you are trying to an appropriate power source that the USB...
... Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption scrambles the data transmitted between the wireless stations and the access points to keep network communications private. 26.6 USB Device Connection The ZyXEL Device fails to detect my USB device. 1 Disconnect the USB device. 2 Reboot the ZyXEL Device. 3 If you are trying to an appropriate power source that the USB...
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... Chapter 27 Product Specifications Table 84 Wireless Features External Antenna The ZyXEL Device is equipped with independently configurable wireless and security settings. MAC Address Filtering Your device can check the MAC addresses of clients against a list of the IEEE 802.11i security standard. Key differences between the wireless stations and the access points.
... Chapter 27 Product Specifications Table 84 Wireless Features External Antenna The ZyXEL Device is equipped with independently configurable wireless and security settings. MAC Address Filtering Your device can check the MAC addresses of clients against a list of the IEEE 802.11i security standard. Key differences between the wireless stations and the access points.
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Intra-BSS traffic is traffic between a wireless client and a wired network client go through one access point (AP). When Intra-BSS is commonly referred to as an ad-hoc network or Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS). Any time two or more wireless...computers with wireless adapters (A, B, C). Figure 189 Peer-to form an ad-hoc wireless LAN. The following diagram shows an example of each other, they can access the wired network and communicate P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide 335 APPENDIX D Wireless LANs Wireless LAN Topologies This section discusses ad-hoc and infrastructure wireless LAN...
Intra-BSS traffic is traffic between a wireless client and a wired network client go through one access point (AP). When Intra-BSS is commonly referred to as an ad-hoc network or Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS). Any time two or more wireless...computers with wireless adapters (A, B, C). Figure 189 Peer-to form an ad-hoc wireless LAN. The following diagram shows an example of each other, they can access the wired network and communicate P-661HNU-Fx User's Guide 335 APPENDIX D Wireless LANs Wireless LAN Topologies This section discusses ad-hoc and infrastructure wireless LAN...