ZyXEL Communications 100-NH User Manual

 Chapter 1 Introducing the NWA

NWA1000 Series User’s Guide

In Root AP mode, the NWA (Z) can act as the root AP in a wireless network and also allow repeaters 
(X and Y) to extend the range of its wireless network at the same time. In the figure below, both 
clients A, B and C can access the wired network through the root AP.

Root AP Application 

On the NWA in Root AP mode, you can have multiple SSIDs active for regular wireless connections 
and one SSID for the connection with a repeater (repeater SSID). Wireless clients can use either 
SSID to associate with the NWA in Root AP mode. A repeater must use the repeater SSID to 
connect to the NWA in Root AP mode.

When the NWA is in Root AP mode, repeater security between the NWA and other repeater is 
independent of the security between the wireless clients and the AP or repeater. If you do not 
enable repeater security, traffic between APs is not encrypted. When repeater security is enabled, 
both APs and repeaters must use the same pre-shared key. See 

 for more 

details.

Unless specified, the term “security settings” refers to the traffic between the wireless clients and 
the AP. At the time of writing, repeater security is compatible with the NWA only. 

The NWA can act as a wireless network repeater to extend a root AP’s wireless network range, and 
also establish wireless connections with wireless clients. 

Using Repeater mode, your NWA can extend the range of the WLAN. In the figure below, the NWA 
in Repeater mode (Z) has a wireless connection to the NWA in Root AP mode (X) which is 
connected to a wired network and also has a wireless connection to another NWA in Repeater mode 
(Y) at the same time. Z and Y act as repeaters that forward traffic between associated wireless