DWL-2700AP

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Wireless Settings

Allow you to change the wireless settings to fit an existing wireless network or to customize your wireless network.
Wireless Band
IEEE 802.11g is supported and is backward compatible with IEEE 802.11b. This is for information only.
Mode
Select a function mode to configure your wireless network. Function modes include AP, WDS with AP and WDS. Function modes are designed to support various wireless network topology and applications. Select AP mode to create a wireless LAN. Select WDS with AP mode to wirelessly connect multi networks while still functioning as a wireless AP. Select WDS mode to wirelessly connect multi networks.
SSID
Service Set Identifier (SSID) is the name designated for a specific wireless local area network (WLAN). The factory default setting is "dlink". The SSID can be easily changed to connect to an existing wireless network or to establish a new wireless network.
SSID Broadcast
Indicate whether or not the SSID of your wireless network will be broadcasted. The default value of SSID Broadcast is set to "Enable", which allow wireless clients to detect the wireless network. By changing this setting to "Disable", wireless clients can no longer detect the wireless network and can only connect if they have the correct SSID entered.
Channel
Indicates the channel setting for the . By default, the AP is set to Auto Channel Scan. The Channel can be changed to fit the channel setting for an existing wireless network or to customize the wireless network.
Auto Channel Scan
If you check Auto Channel Scan, the AP will automatically find the best channel to use. This is enabled by default.
Authentication
For added security on a wireless network, data encryption can be enabled. There are several available Authentications type can be selected. The default value for Authentication is set to "Open System".
- Open System:
For Open System authentication, only the wireless clients with the same WEP key will be able to communicate on the wireless network. The Access Point will remain visible to all devices on the network.
- Shared Key:
For Shared Key authentication, the Access Point cannot be seen on the wireless network except to the wireless clients that share the same WEP key.
- Open System/Shared Key:
With this setting both shared and open system are employed. Stations have the option of using either but must still have the correct key to decrypt data.
- WPA-Enterprise/ WPA2-Enterprise/ WPA-Auto-Enterprise:
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. It requires a RADIUS server in the network. WPA and WPA2 uses different algorithm. WPA-Auto allows both WPA and WPA2.
- WPA-Personal/WPA2-Personal/WPA-Auto-Personal:
Wi-Fi Protected Access authorizes and authenticates users onto the wireless network. It uses TKIP encryption to protect the network through the use of a pre-shared key. WPA and WPA2 uses different algorithm. WPA-Auto allows both WPA and WPA2.
- 802.1x:
It uses a central authentication server like Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server to authenticate each user on the network. The 802.1X standard is designed to enhance the security of wireless local area networks (WLANs) that follow the IEEE 802.11 standard. 802.1X provides an authentication framework for wireless LANs, allowing a user to be authenticated by a central authority. The actual algorithm that is used to determine whether a user is authentic is left open and multiple algorithms are possible. 802.1X uses an existing protocol, the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), for message exchange during the authentication process.
In a wireless LAN with 802.1X, a user (known as the supplicant) requests access to an access point (known as the authenticator). The access point forces the user (actually, the user's client software) into an unauthorized state that allows the client to send only an EAP start message. The access point returns an EAP message requesting the user's identity. The client returns the identity, which is then forwarded by the access point to the authentication server, which uses an algorithm to authenticate the user and then returns an accept or reject message back to the access point. Assuming an accept was received, the access point changes the client's state to authorized and normal traffic can now take place.

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 's 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 setting is 255.255.255.0 for .
Gateway
Specify the gateway IP address of the local network.