ZyXEL Communications Draft 802.11n Wireless CardBus Card User Manual

ZyXEL NWD-170N User’s Guide

Chapter 4 Wireless Configuration

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The default profile is a profile that allows you to connect to any SSID that has no security 
enabled. 

Click the Profile tab in the ZyXEL utility program to display the Profile screen as shown next.

The profile function allows you to save the wireless network settings in this screen, or use one 
of the pre-configured network profiles.

Figure 27   Profile  

The following table describes the labels in this screen. 

Table 13   Profile 

Profile List

Click a column heading to sort the entries.

,

,

 or

denotes that the wireless device is in infrastructure mode and the wireless 

security is activated.
denotes that the wireless device is in infrastructure mode but the wireless 

security is deactivated.

denotes that the wireless device is in Ad-Hoc mode and the wireless 

security is activated.

denotes that the wireless device is in Ad-Hoc mode but the wireless 

security is deactivated.

Profile Name

This is the name of the pre-configured profile.

SSID

This is the SSID of the wireless network to which the selected profile associate.

Connect 

To use and activate a previously saved network profile, select a pre-configured 

profile name in the table and click Connect.

Add 

To add a new profile into the table, click Add.

Delete

To delete an existing wireless network configuration, select a profile in the table 

and click Delete.

Edit

To edit an existing wireless network configuration, select a profile in the table and 

click Edit.