User's Manual

Chapter 7 Wireless LAN

NBG-417N User’s Guide

Click Network > Wireless LAN to open the General screen.

Figure 42 Network > Wireless LAN > General

The following table describes the general wireless LAN labels in this screen.

Table 24 Network > Wireless LAN > General

LABEL DESCRIPTION

Enable

Wireless LAN

Click the check box to activate wireless LAN.

Name(SSID) (Service Set IDentity) The SSID identifies the Service Set with which a wireless

station is associated. Wireless stations associating to the access point (AP) must

have the same SSID. Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable 7-bit ASCII

characters) for the wireless LAN.

Hide SSID Select this check box to hide the SSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station

cannot obtain the SSID through scanning using a site survey tool.

Channel

Selection

Set the operating frequency/channel depending on your particular region.

Select a channel from the drop-down list box. The options vary depending on the

frequency band and the country you are in.

Refer to the Connection Wizard chapter for more information on channels. This

option is only available if Auto Channel Selection is disabled.

Auto Channel

Selection

Select this check box for the NBG-417N to automatically choose the channel with

the least interference. Deselect this check box if you wish to manually select the

channel using the Channel Section field.

Operating

Channel

This displays the channel the NBG-417N is currently using.

Channel Width Select whether the NBG-417N uses a wireless channel width of 20 or 40 MHz. A

standard 20 MHz channel offers transfer speeds of up to 150Mbps whereas a

40MHz channel uses two standard channels and offers speeds of up to 300 Mbps.

Because not all devices support 40 MHz channels, select Auto 20/40MHz to allow

the NBG-417N to adjust the channel bandwidth automatically.

Security Mode Select WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK to add security on this wireless network. The

wireless clients which want to associate to this network must have same wireless

security settings as this device. After you select to use a security, additional options

appears in this screen. See 7.4.2 and 7.4.3 sections. Or you can select No

Security to allow any client to associate this network without authentication.

Note: If you enable the WPS function, only No Security, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK

are available in this field.