Wireless Lan Setup; Figure 3-9 Menu 3.5 - Wireless Lan Setup; Table 3-4 Wireless Lan Setup Field Description - ZyXEL Communications P650HW 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 P650HW 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
frame so a station cannot obtain the ESSID through passive scanning. Hiding
the ESSID will also allow any wireless clients on the same channel to access
Hide ESSID
the Prestige.
Select No to allow any wireless client with the same ESSID and channel to
access the Prestige.
Channel ID Press [SPACE BAR] to select a channel. This allows you to set the operating
Internet Access
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
EXMAPLE
Wireless
No
CH01
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