ZyXEL Communications Corporation NWA1121NI Manuale Utente

Chapter 1 Introducing the NWA1121-NI

NWA1121-NI User’s Guide

In Root AP mode, the NWA1121-NI (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 NWA1121-NI in Root AP mode, you can have 

up to four

 

multiple

 SSIDs active for reqular 

wireless connections 

and one SSID for the connection with a repeater (universal repeater SSID)

. 

Wireless clients can use either SSID to associate with the NWA1121-NI in Root AP mode

. A repeater 

must use the 

universal repeater SSID 

to connect to the NWA1121-NI in Root AP mode.

When the NWA1121-NI is in Root AP mode, 

universal repeater 

security between the NWA1121-NI 

and other repeater

 is independent of the security 

between the wireless clients and the AP

 or 

repeater

. If you do not enable 

universal repeater

 security, traffic between APs is not encrypted. 

When 

universal repeater

 security is enabled, 

both APs and repeaters

 must use the same pre-shared 

key. See 

Unless specified, the term “security settings” refers to the traffic between the wireless clients and 
the AP. 

At the time of writing, 

universal repeater

 security is compatible with the NWA1121-NI 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 NWA1121-NI can extend the range of the WLAN. 

In the figure below, 

the NWA1121-NI in Repeater mode (Z) has a wireless connection to the NWA1121-NI in Root AP 
mode (X) which is connected to a wired network and also has a wireless connection to another 
NWA1121-NI in Repeater mode (Y) at the same time.

 Z and Y act as repeaters that forward traffic