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4.
Select Advanced > Wireless Settings.
All the check boxes are selected by default.
5.
Select or clear the check boxes:
•
Enable Wireless Access Point. When this check box is selected, the extender
allows WiFi connections. Clearing this check box prevents wireless devices from
connecting to the extender. LAN devices can still connect to the extender over an
Ethernet cable.
•
Enable SSID Broadcast. When this check box is selected, the extender broadcasts
its wireless network name (SSID). Clearing this check box hides the extender's
network name. In such a situation, this network name does not display in a WiFi
network manager. A user who wants to join this hidden network must know its
network name.
6.
Select or clear the Keep Existing Wireless Settings check box.
By default, the Keep Existing Wireless Settings check box is selected. NETGEAR
recommends that you leave this check box selected.
If you clear this check box, the next time a new wireless client uses WPS to connect to
the extender, the extender wireless settings change to an automatically generated
random SSID and security key.
7.
Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Set Up a Wireless Access List
By default, any wireless device that is configured with the correct network name (SSID) can
access the extender's WiFi networks. For increased security, you can restrict access to the
extender's WiFi networks so that only wireless devices with the MAC addresses that you add
to an access list can connect.
Each network device is assigned a MAC address, which is a unique 12-character physical
address, containing the hexadecimal characters 0–9, a–f, or A–F only, and separated by
colons (for example, 00:09:AB:CD:EF:01). Typically, the MAC address is on the label of the
wireless device. If you do cannot access the label, you can display the MAC address using
N300 WiFi Range Extender
Manage the Extender Network
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