User Manual Part 1

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Configuration Page
This is the page where you can change the basic settings of the Access Point with the
minimum amount of effort to adjust a secure wireless network.
SSID: Service Set Identifier, which is a unique name shared among all clients and
nodes in a wireless network. The SSID must be identical for each clients and nodes in
the wireless network.
BSS Type: There are two types available for selection
l Infrastructure – to establish wireless communication with LAN and other
wireless clients through the use the Access Points.
l Ad-Hoc – to establish point-to-point wireless communication directly with
other wireless client devices such as wireless network PCI.
Channel: The value of channel that AP will operate in. You can select the channel
range of 1 to 11 for North America (FCC) domain, 1 to 13 for European (ETSI)
domain and 1 to 14 for Japanese domain.
Tx Rate: Select the data rate for data transmission.
Preamble: Select Long or Short Preamble type. Preamble is a sequence of bits
transmitted at 1Mbps that allows the PHY circuitry to reach steady-state demodulation
and synchronization of bit clock and frame start. Two different preambles and headers
are defined: the mandatory supported Long Preamble and header, which interoperates
with the 1 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s DSSS specification (as described in IEEE Std 802.11),
and an optional Short Preamble and header (as described in IEEE Std 802.11b). At the