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The wireless status may contain up to three separate entries if SSID2 and SSID3 have also
been enabled in the Advanced Set-Up > Channel and SSID page.
If this section displays 'wireless is currently disabled' then this means that the
wireless LAN on the Bright Box has been disabled. You can enable the wireless LAN in the
Basic Set-Up > Wireless Settings or Advanced Set-Up > Wireless Settings pages.
Field
Wireless Network
Name (SSID)
Wireless Password
Security
Channel
Description
This field displays the wireless network name (also known
as a SSID) as configured in the Basic Set-Up > Wireless
Settings or Advanced Set-Up > Wireless Settings >
Channel and SSID pages.
This is the wireless network name you will select when
connecting your wireless devices to the Bright Box router.
You can also find the default wireless network name on
the sticker on the bottom of the router or the 'KEEP MEE'
card that came with the router.
This field displays the wireless password (sometimes
known as a wireless passphrase or WEP key) for the listed
wireless network name.
This is the wireless password you will enter when
connecting your devices to the wireless network.
This field will display '—' if the wireless security type is set
to 'None'.
You can also find the default wireless password on the
sticker on the bottom of the router or the 'KEEP MEE' card
that came with the router.
The wireless password can be configured in the Basic
Set-Up > Wireless Settings or Advanced Set-Up >
Wireless Settings > WEP or Advanced Set-Up >
Wireless Settings > WPA pages.
This field displays the wireless security mode/cipher suite
of the of the associated wireless network name. The
default wireless security mode is 'WPA-WPA2(TKIP+AES)'.
Other modes include 'WPA(TKIP+AES)', 'WPA(TKIP)',
'WPA(AES)', 'WPA2(TKIP+AES)', 'WPA2(TKIP)', 'WPA2(AES)',
'WEP' and 'None'.
The wireless security mode can be configured in the
Basic Set-Up > Wireless Settings or Advanced Set-
Up > Wireless Settings > Channel and SSID pages.
The WPA cipher suite can be configured in the Advanced
Set-Up > Wireless Settings > WPA page.
This field displays the wireless channel transmission for all
of the wireless network names. By default, the wireless
channel is automatically selected by the Intelligent
Wireless function of the router. This determines the
channel with the least amount of interference and sets
the channel accordingly.
You can override the automatic Intelligent Wireless
channel selection in the Basic Set-Up > Wireless
Settings page and set the router to a manual channel
between 1 and 13.
If you have set the router to the 40MHz bandwidth setting
in Advanced Set-Up > Wireless Settings > Channel
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