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The following table describes the general wireless LAN labels in this screen.
Table 15 Network Setting > Wireless > General
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Wireless Network Setup
Wireless You can Enable or Disable the wireless LAN in this field.
Band This shows the wireless band which this radio profile is using. 2.4GHz is the frequency used
by IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless clients while 5GHz is used by IEEE 802.11a/ac wireless
clients.
Channel Use Auto to have the VMG automatically determine a channel to use.
more.../less Click more... to show more information. Click less to hide them.
Bandwidth Select whether the VMG uses a wireless channel width of 20MHz, 40MHz or 80MHz.
A standard 20MHz channel offers transfer speeds of up to 150Mbps whereas a 40MHz
channel uses two standard channels and offers speeds of up to 300 Mbps.
40MHz (channel bonding or dual channel) bonds two adjacent radio channels to increase
throughput. The wireless clients must also support 40 MHz. It is often better to use the 20
MHz setting in a location where the environment hinders the wireless signal.
An 80MHz channel groups adjacent 40MHz channels into pairs to increase bandwidth even
higher.
Select 20MHz if you want to lessen radio interference with other wireless devices in your
neighborhood or the wireless clients do not support channel bonding.
Control This is available for some regions when you select a specific channel and set the Bandwidth
Sideband field to 40MHz. Set whether the control channel (set in the Channel field) should be in the
Lower or Upper range of channel bands.
Passphrase If you set security for the wireless LAN and have the VMG generate a password, the setting
Type in this field determines how the VMG generates the password.
Select None to set the VMG's password generation to not be based on a passphrase.
Select Fixed to use a 16 character passphrase for generating a password.
Select Variable to use a 16 to 63 character passphrase for generating a password.
Passphrase Key For a fixed type passphrase enter 16 alphanumeric characters (0-9, A-Z, with no spaces). It
must contain both letters and numbers and is case-sensitive.
For a variable type passphrase enter 16 to 63 alphanumeric characters (0-9, A-Z, with no
spaces). It must contain both letters and numbers and is case-sensitive.
Wireless Network Settings
Wireless The SSID (Service Set IDentity) identifies the service set with which a wireless device is
Network Name associated. Wireless devices associating to the access point (AP) must have the same SSID.
(SSID)
Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 English keyboard characters) for the wireless LAN.
Max clients Specify the maximum number of clients that can connect to this network at the same time.
Hide SSID Select this check box to hide the SSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station cannot
obtain the SSID through scanning using a site survey tool.
Enhanced Select this check box to allow the VMG to convert wireless multicast traffic into wireless
Multicast unicast traffic.
Forwarding
Max. Upstream Specify the maximum rate for upstream wireless traffic to the WAN from this WLAN in
Bandwidth kilobits per second (Kbps).
Max. Specify the maximum rate for downstream wireless traffic to this WLAN from the WAN in
Downstream kilobits per second (Kbps).
Bandwidth
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