Mastering Your Wifi Network At Your Fingertips; Personalizing Your Wifi Network - Hercules HWNAP-300 Manual

Hercules Wireless N Access Point

3.5. Mastering your WiFi network at your fingertips

In this chapter, you will learn how to personalize your WiFi network and secure it against unwelcome intrusion
attempts.
Configuration of your network is carried out via the Ethernet cable connecting your access point to
your computer. Once you have finished, you can disconnect this cable and explore all the subtleties of WiFi,
described in chapter 4. Welcome to the Wireless Attitude

3.5.1.Personalizing your WiFi network

When the wireless access point (your Hercules access point's WiFi function) is enabled, WiFi Manager N
displays the name of your network, the Radio Frequency (RF) channel and security type used. These settings
may be modified, subject to certain conditions.
Should you decide to modify certain settings, we recommend that you take care to follow the
recommendations below.
To personalize your WiFi network:
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3. Click Properties and select Obtain an IP
address automatically in the IP Address tab.
4. Click OK to close the windows, then exit the
Control Panel.
The modem-router will now be able to assign an
IP address to your computer.
An IP address is a unique address assigned by
the modem-router to the computer.
computer has its own identity, via its IP address,
allowing it to be identified within the network.
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- On the Home page, select Your WiFi
connection settings.
Various items of information are displayed,
such as the name of your network and the RF
channel used.
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