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7.1 Overview ...........................................................................................................................................81
7.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter ............................................................................................81
7.1.2 What You Need to Know ..........................................................................................................82
7.2 The General Screen .........................................................................................................................82
7.2.1 No Security ..............................................................................................................................84
7.2.2 Basic (WEP Encryption) ..........................................................................................................85
7.2.3 More Secure (WPA(2)-PSK) ....................................................................................................87
7.2.4 WPA(2) Authentication .............................................................................................................88
7.3 The More AP Screen .........................................................................................................................89
7.3.1 Edit More AP ..........................................................................................................................90
7.4 MAC Authentication ..........................................................................................................................91
7.5 The WPS Screen ..............................................................................................................................92
7.6 The Others Screen ............................................................................................................................94
7.7 Technical Reference ..........................................................................................................................95
7.7.1 Wireless Network Overview .....................................................................................................95
7.7.2 Additional Wireless Terms .......................................................................................................97
7.7.3 Wireless Security Overview .....................................................................................................97
7.7.4 Signal Problems ......................................................................................................................99
7.7.5 BSS .......................................................................................................................................100
7.7.6 MBSSID .................................................................................................................................100
7.7.7 Preamble Type ......................................................................................................................101
7.7.8 WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) .................................................................................................101
Chapter 8
Home Networking .............................................................................................................................109
8.1 Overview .........................................................................................................................................109
8.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter ..........................................................................................109
8.1.2 What You Need To Know ....................................................................................................... 110
8.1.3 Before You Begin ................................................................................................................... 111
8.2 The LAN Setup Screen ................................................................................................................... 111
8.3 The Static DHCP Screen ................................................................................................................. 113
8.4 The UPnP Screen ........................................................................................................................... 115
8.5 Installing UPnP in Windows Example ............................................................................................. 115
8.6 Using UPnP in Windows XP Example ............................................................................................ 118
8.7 The STB Vendor ID Screen .............................................................................................................123
8.8 The HPNA Screen ...........................................................................................................................124
8.9 The 5th Ethernet Port Screen .........................................................................................................124
8.10 The LAN VLAN Screen .................................................................................................................125
8.11 Technical Reference ......................................................................................................................126
8.11.1 LANs, WANs and the ZyXEL Device ...................................................................................126
8.11.2 DHCP Setup ........................................................................................................................126
8.11.3 DNS Server Addresses ........................................................................................................127
8.11.4 LAN TCP/IP .........................................................................................................................127
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