ZyXEL Wireless Access Point G1000 91-005-124003B User Manual

G-1000 User’s Guide

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Chapter 4 Wizard Setup

This chapter provides information on the Wizard Setup screens in the web configurator.

The web configurator’s setup wizard helps you configure your G-1000 for wireless stations to 
access your wired LAN. 

A channel is the radio frequency(ies) used by IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g wireless 
devices. Channels available depend on your geographical area. You may have a choice of 
channels (for your region) so you should use a different channel than an adjacent AP (access 
point) to reduce interference. Interference occurs when radio signals from different access 
points overlap causing interference and degrading performance.

Adjacent channels partially overlap however. To avoid interference due to overlap, your AP 
should be on a channel at least five channels away from a channel that an adjacent AP is using. 
For example, if your region has 11 channels and an adjacent AP is using channel 1, then you 
need to select a channel between 6 or 11.

The G-1000’s “Scan” function is especially designed to automatically scan for a channel with 
the least interference.  

An Extended Service Set (ESS) is a group of access points connected to a wired LAN on the 
same subnet. An ESS ID uniquely identifies each set.  All access points and their associated 
wireless stations in the same set must have the same ESSID.

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encrypts data frames before transmitting over the wireless 
network. WEP encryption scrambles the data transmitted between the wireless stations and the 
access points to keep network communications private. It encrypts unicast and multicast 
communications in a network. Both the wireless stations and the access points must use the 
same WEP key for data encryption and decryption.