ZyXEL Communications Corporation WAC6553D-E Manuel D’Utilisation

Chapter 6 Wireless

NWA5000 / WAC6500 Series User’s Guide

Radio 1 OP Mode

Select the operating mode for radio 1.

AP Mode means the radio can receive connections from wireless clients and pass their 
data traffic through to the NWA/WAC to be managed (or subsequently passed on to an 
upstream gateway for managing).

MON Mode means the radio monitors the broadcast area for other APs, then passes 
their information on to the NWA/WAC where it can be determined if those APs are 
friendly or rogue. If a radio is set to this mode it cannot receive connections from 
wireless clients.

Root AP means the radio acts as an AP and also supports the wireless connections with 
other APs (in repeater mode) to form a WDS (Wireless Distribution System) to extend 
its wireless network.

Repeater means the radio can establish a wireless connection with other APs (in either 
root AP or repeater mode) to form a WDS.

Radio 1 Profile

Select the radio profile the radio uses. 

Note: You can only apply a 2.4G AP radio profile to radio 1. Otherwise, the first radio will 

not be working.

Radio 1 WDS Profile This field is available only when the radio is in Root AP or Repeater mode.

Select the WDS profile the radio uses to connect to a root AP or repeater.

Uplink Selection 
Mode

This field is available only when the radio is in Repeater mode.

Select AUTO to have the NWA/WAC automatically use the settings in the applied WDS 
profile to connect to a root AP or repeater.

Select Manual to have the NWA/WAC connect to the root AP or repeater with the MAC 
address specified in the Radio 1 Uplink MAC Address field.

Output Power

Enter the output power (between 0 to 30 dBm) of the NWA/WAC in this field. If there is 
a high density of APs in an area, decrease the output power of the NWA/WAC to reduce 
interference with other APs.

Note: Reducing the output power also reduces the NWA/WAC’s effective broadcast 

radius.

MBSSID Settings

Edit

Double-click an entry or select it and click Edit to open a screen where you can modify 
the entry’s settings. In some tables you can just click a table entry and edit it directly in 
the table. For those types of tables small red triangles display for table entries with 
changes that you have not yet applied.

#

This field shows the index number of the SSID

SSID Profile

This field displays the SSID profile that is associated with the radio profile.

Radio 2 Setting

Radio 2 Activate

This displays if the NWA/WAC has a second radio. 

Select the check box to enable the NWA/WAC’s second radio.

Configuration > Wireless > AP Management (continued)