Tutorial; Chapter 2 Tutorial; Connecting To A Wireless Lan; Figure 5 Infrastructure Network - ZyXEL Communications G-210H User Manual

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The following sections show you how to connect to a wireless network using the ZyXEL
utility and Windows Vista, as in the following diagrams. The wireless client is labeled C and
the access point is labeled AP.

Figure 5 Infrastructure Network

There are three ways to connect the wireless client (the G-210H) to a network.
• Configure nothing and leave the wireless client to automatically scan for and connect to
any available network that has no wireless security configured.
• Manually connect to a network (see
• Configure a profile to have the wireless client automatically connect to a specific network
or peer computer (see

2.1 Connecting to a Wireless LAN

This example illustrates how to manually connect your wireless client to an access point (AP)
which is configured for WPA-PSK security and connected to the Internet. Windows Vista is
used. Before you connect to the access point, you must know its Service Set IDentity (SSID)
and WPA-PSK pre-shared key. In this example, the SSID is "ZyXEL" and the pre-shared key
is "ThisismyWPA-PSKpre-sharedkey" in the AP.
After you install the ZyXEL utility and then insert the wireless client, follow the steps below
to connect to a network using the Site Survey screen.
1 Open the ZyXEL utility and click the Site Survey tab to open the screen as shown next.
G-210H User's Guide
Section 2.1 on page
Section 4.3.1 on page 32).
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