Wireless; Wireless Basics - Hitron CVE-30360 User Manual

This chapter provides an introduction to wireless networking, describes some
common wireless network setup procedures, and documents the screens that display
when you click Wireless in the toolbar. It contains the following sections:
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Wireless Basics

and are secured.
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Wireless Tutorials
common wireless network configuration tasks using your CVE-30360.
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Advanced Wireless Networking
information.
If you are just interested in setting up your wireless network in a standard
configuration you do not need to read this section.
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The Wireless Screens
each of the CVE-30360's wireless screens.
Use this section as a reference to find out about a particular screen or field.
6.1 WIRELESS BASICS
This section describes how wireless networks and wireless security work.
Your CVE-30360's wireless network is part of the Local Area Network (LAN), known
as the Wireless LAN (WLAN). The WLAN is a network of radio links between the
CVE-30360 and the other computers and devices that connect to it.
In the following figure, the wireless network is the part in the circle. The laptop and the
PC are called "wireless clients" and connect to the CVE-30360, which is called the
"access point" or "AP". The wireless clients can use the AP to access other devices
(such as the printer) or the Internet.
on page 69: this section describes how wireless networks work
on page 71: this section describes how to perform some
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