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Setup Wizard
The Setup Wizard is a useful and easy utility to help setup the to quickly connect to your ISP (Internet Service Provider) with only a few steps required. It will guide you step by step to configure the password, time, and WAN settings of your . The Setup Wizard is a helpful guide for first time users to the .

Wireless Settings

Allow you to change the wireless settings to fit an existing wireless network or to customize your wireless network.
Wireless Band
supports IEEE 802.11g band and backward compatible with IEEE 802.11b band. This is for information only and cannot be changed.
Mode
Select a function mode to configure your wireless network. Function modes includes AP, WDS. Function modes are designed to support various wireless network topology and applications.
SSID
Service Set Identifier (SSID) is the name designated for a specific wireless local area network (WLAN). The SSID's factory default setting is "default". The SSID can be easily changed to connect to an existing wireless network or to establish a new wireless network.
SSID Broadcast
Disable SSID Broadcase , SSID would be invisible on Station Sitesurvey table. No exact SSID found , user , like free rider, cannot link on this targeted AP.
Channel
Indicates the channel setting for the . By default the channel for 11g is set to 6, The Channel can be changed to fit the channel setting for an existing wireless network or to customize the wireless network.
Authentication
For added security on the wireless network, when enabling Encryption, the Authentication type can also be selected. If Shared Key is selected, the Access Point will not be seen on the wireless network except to the wireless clients that share the same WEP key with MAC Addresses allowed access as specified in Filter List. If Open System is chosen, only the wireless clients with the same WEP key will be able to communicate on the wireless network, but the Access Point will be visible to all devices on the network. The default value for Authentication is set to "Open System".
WPA: Wi-Fi Protected Access authorizes and authenticates users onto the wireless network. WPA uses stronger security than WEP and is based on a key that changes automatically at a regular interval. This mode requires a RADIUS server in the network.
WPA-PSK: Pre-Shared Key mode means that the wireless client and the router must have the same passphrase in order to establish the wireless connection.

LAN Settings

Also referred as Private settings. LAN settings allow you to configure LAN interface of . LAN IP address is private to your internal network and is not visible to Internet. The default IP address is 192.168.0.50 with subnet mask as 255.255.255.0 for .

Get IP From
The factory default setting is "Static (Manual)" which allows the IP address of the to be manually configured in accordance to the applied local area network. Enable Dynamic (DHCP) to allow the DHCP host to automatically assign the Access Point an IP address that conforms to the applied local area network.
IP address
The default IP address is 192.168.0.50 for . It can be modified to conform to an existing local area network. Please note that the IP address of each device in the wireless local area network must be within the same IP address range and subnet mask. Take default IP address as an example, each station associated to the AP must be configured with a unique IP address falling in the range of 192.168.0.*. "*" ranges from 0 to 255 but 50 in this case.
Subnet Mask
A mask used to determine what subnet an IP address belongs to. The default subnet settings is 255.255.255.0 for .
Gateway
Specify the gateway IP address of the local network.