ZyXEL Communications NBG-418N v2 User Manual

 Chapter 6 Wireless LAN

NBG-418N v2 User’s Guide

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

See the rest of this chapter for information on the other labels in this screen. 

Select No Security to allow wireless stations to communicate with the access points without any 
data encryption. 

Network > Wireless LAN > General

WLAN STA 
Information

This section is available only when the NBG-418N v2 is in universal repeater mode. This 
shows the wireless and security settings of the selected AP wireless network.

SSID

This displays the Service Set IDentity of the wireless device to which you are connecting.

Security Mode

This displays the type of security configured on the wireless device to which you are 
connecting.

Operating 
Channel 

This displays the channel used by the wireless device to which you are connecting.

WLAN AP 
Information / 
Wireless Setup

Use this section to configure the wireless settings between the NBG-418N v2and its wireless 
clients.

Enable 
Wireless LAN

Click the check box to activate wireless LAN.

802.11 Mode

Click the drop-down list to choose the 802.11 mode you want to operate.

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. 

Enable SSID 
Broadcast

Select the Enable SSID Broadcast check box to enable 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 

 chapter for more information on channels. This option is only 

available if Auto Channel Selection is disabled.

Operating 
Channel 

This displays the channel the NBG-418N v2 is currently using.

Channel Width

Select whether the NBG-418N v2 uses a wireless channel width of 20MHz, 40MHz or Auto 
20/40MHz. A standard 20MHz 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 40MHz channels, select Auto 20/40MHz to allow the NBG-418N v2 
to adjust the channel bandwidth automatically.

Security

Use this section to configure the wireless security between the NBG-418N v2 and its wireless 
clients.

Security Mode

Select Static WEP, 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 

 and 

 sections. Or you can select No Security to allow any client to 

associate this network without authentication.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the NBG-418N v2.

Reset

Click Reset to reload the previous configuration for this screen.