Ssid; Ssid List - ZyXEL Communications NWA5301-NJ User Manual

Table 37 Configuration > Object > AP Profile > Add/Edit Profile (continued)
LABEL
Transmission
Mode
Multicast
Rate(Mbps)
MBSSID Settings
Edit
SSID Profile
OK
Cancel

9.3 SSID

The SSID screens allow you to configure three different types of profiles for your networked APs: an
SSID list, which can assign specific SSID configurations to your APs; a security list, which can
assign specific encryption methods to the APs when allowing wireless clients to connect to them;
and a MAC filter list, which can limit connections to an AP based on wireless clients MAC addresses.

9.3.1 SSID List

This screen allows you to create and manage SSID configurations that can be used by the APs. An
SSID, or Service Set IDentifier, is basically the name of the wireless network to which a wireless
client can connect. The SSID appears as readable text to any device capable of scanning for
wireless frequencies (such as the WiFi adapter in a laptop), and is displayed as the wireless network
name when a person makes a connection to it.
To access this screen click Configuration > Object > AP Profile > SSID.
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DESCRIPTION
Specify how the NWA handles wireless multicast traffic.
Select Multicast to Unicast to broadcast wireless multicast traffic to all of the wireless
clients as unicast traffic. Unicast traffic dynamically changes the data rate based on the
application's bandwidth requirements. The retransmit mechanism of unicast traffic
provides more reliable transmission of the multicast traffic, although it also produces
duplicate packets.
Select Fixed Multicast Rate to send multicast traffic to all wireless clients at a single
data rate. You must know the multicast application's bandwidth requirements and set it
in the following field.
If you set Transmission Mode to Fixed Multicast Rate, select a data rate at which
the NWA transmits multicast packets to wireless clients. For example, to deploy 4 Mbps
video, select a fixed multicast rate higher than 4 Mbps.
This section displays if you set the Operating Mode to MBSSID. It allows you to
associate an SSID profile with the radio profile.
Select an SSID and click this button to reassign it. The selected SSID becomes editable
immediately upon clicking.
Indicates which SSID profile is associated with this radio profile.
Click OK to save your changes back to the NWA.
Click Cancel to exit this screen without saving your changes.
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