Wireless Lan Setup; Figure 3-9 Menu 3.5 - Wireless Lan Setup; Table 3-4 Wireless Lan Setup Field Description - ZyXEL Communications Prestige 650HW User Manual

further improvement in security can be obtained by using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) data encryption.
However, there may be a significant degradation of the data throughput on the wireless link when WEP is
enabled.

3.9.2 Wireless LAN Setup

Use menu 3.5 to set up your Prestige as the wireless access point. To edit menu 3.5, enter 3 from the main
menu to display Menu 3 – LAN Setup. When menu 3 appears, press 5 and then press [ENTER] to display
Menu 3.5 – Wireless LAN Setup as shown next.
The following table describes the fields in this screen.
FIELD
The ESSID (Extended Service Set IDentification) identifies the service set the
wireless client is to connect to. Wireless clients associating to the Access Point
ESSID
must have the same ESSID. Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 characters) for
the wireless Service Set.
Press [SPACE BAR] and select Yes to hide the ESSID in the outgoing beacon
Hide ESSID
frame so a station cannot obtain the ESSID through passive scanning.
Press [SPACE BAR] to select a channel. This allows you to set the operating
frequency/channel depending on your particular region.
Channel ID Possible choices are CH01 2412MHz, CH02 2417MHz, CH03 2422MHzCH11
2462MHz CH04 2427MHz, CH05 2432MHz, CH06 2437MHz, CH07 2442MHz,
CH08 2447MHz, CH09 2452MHz, CH10 2457MHz or CH11 2462MHz.
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Menu 3.5- Wireless LAN Setup
ESSID= Wireless
Hide ESSIS = No
Channel ID= CH01 2412MHz
RTS Threshold= 2432
Frag. Threshold= 2432
WEP= Disable
Default Key= N/A
Key1= N/A
Key2= N/A
Key3= N/A
Key4= N/A
Edit MAC Address Filter= No
Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

Figure 3-9 Menu 3.5 - Wireless LAN Setup

Table 3-4 Wireless LAN Setup Field Description

DESCRIPTION
Prestige 650HW ADSL Router User's Guide
EXMAPLE
Wireless
No
CH01
2412MHz
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