Table 14 Wireless Settings: Wireless Client - ZyXEL Communications NWA570N User Manual

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 14 Wireless Settings: Wireless Client

LABEL
Basic Settings
Operation
Mode
SSID
Advanced
Settings
Manual MAC
Cloning
Radio Enable
Preamble
Type
RTS/CTS
Threshold
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DESCRIPTION
Select the operating mode from the drop-down list. The options are Access Point,
Wireless Client, Bridge and AP+Repeater.
Wireless stations associating to the access point (AP) must have the same SSID.
Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable characters) for the wireless LAN.
Spaces are allowed.
Note: If you are configuring the device from a computer connected
to the wireless LAN and you change the device's SSID,
channel or security settings, you will lose your wireless
connection when you click Apply to save your settings. You
must then change the wireless settings of your computer to
match the device's new settings.
Every Ethernet-capable device is issued with a unique Media Access Control
(MAC) address at the factory. This address is used to identify the device across a
network. Your NWA570N is capable of "cloning", or emulating, the MAC
addresses of one or more other devices.
Select the check box and enter the MAC address you want to clone.
Turn on the wireless adapter to allow wireless communications between the
device and other IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g compliant wireless devices.
Turn off the wireless adapter to stop wireless communications between the device
and other IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g compliant wireless devices.
Preamble is used to signal that data is coming to the receiver.
Short preamble increases performance as less time sending preamble means
more time for sending data. All IEEE 802.11b compliant wireless adapters support
long preamble, but not all support short preamble.
Select Long preamble if you are unsure what preamble mode the wireless
adapters support, and to provide more reliable communications in busy wireless
networks.
Select Dynamic to have the device automatically use short preamble when all
wireless clients support it, otherwise the device uses long preamble.
Note: The device and the wireless stations MUST use the same
preamble mode in order to communicate.
RTS/CTS is designed to prevent collisions due to hidden nodes. You should only
configure RTS/CTS if the possibility of hidden nodes exists on your network and
the "cost" of resending large frames is more than the extra network overhead
involved in the RTS (Request To Send)/CTS (Clear to Send) handshake.
Enter a value between 0 and 65535. Data with a frame size larger than this value
will perform the RTS/CTS handshake.
If the RTS/CTS value is greater than the Fragmentation value, then the RTS/CTS
handshake will never occur as data frames will be fragmented before they reach
RTS/CTS size.
See Appendix C on page 125
Chapter 6 Wireless Screens
for more information.
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