ZyXEL Communications Draft 802.11n Wireless CardBus Card User Manual

ZyXEL NWD-170N User’s Guide

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Chapter 4 Wireless Configuration

Figure 19   Link Info 

The following table describes the labels in this screen. 

Table 5   Link Info 

Wireless Network 

Status

Profile Name

This is the name of the profile you are currently using.

Network Name 

(SSID)

The SSID identifies the wireless network to which a wireless station is associated. 

This field displays the name of the wireless device to which the NWD-170N is 

associated.

AP MAC Address

This field displays the MAC address of the AP or peer computer to which the NWD-

170N is associated.

Network Type

This field displays the network type (Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc) of the wireless 

network.

Transmission Rate  This field displays the current transmission rate of the NWD-170N in megabits per 

second (Mbps).

Security 

This field displays whether data encryption is activated (WEP (WEP or 802.1x), 

TKIP (WPA/WPA-PSK/WPA2/WPA2-PSK), AES (WPA/WPA-PSK/WPA2/WPA2-

PSK)) or inactive (DISABLE).

Channel

This field displays the radio channel the NWD-170N is currently using.

Statistics

Transmit Rate

This field displays the current data transmission rate in kilobits per second (Kbps).

Receive Rate 

This field displays the current data receiving rate in kilobits per second (Kbps).

Authentication 

This field displays the authentication method of the NWD-170N.

Network Mode 

This field displays the wireless standard (802.11b, 802.11g or 802.11n) of the AP 

or peer computer. 

Total Transmit 

This field displays the total number of data frames transmitted.

Total Receive 

This field displays the total number of data frames received.

Link Quality  

This field displays the signal strength of the NWD-170N.