Table of Contents
VMG1312-B Series User’s Guide
7
7.1.2 What You Need to Know ..........................................................................................................94
7.2 The General Screen .........................................................................................................................95
7.2.1 No Security ..............................................................................................................................97
7.2.2 Basic (WEP Encryption) ..........................................................................................................97
7.2.3 More Secure (WPA(2)-PSK) ....................................................................................................98
7.3 The Guest / More AP Screen ............................................................................................................99
7.3.1 Edit Guest / More AP ............................................................................................................100
7.4 MAC Authentication ........................................................................................................................102
7.5 The WPS Screen ............................................................................................................................103
7.6 The WMM Screen ...........................................................................................................................105
7.7 The WDS Screen ............................................................................................................................106
7.7.1 WDS Scan .............................................................................................................................108
7.8 The Others Screen ..........................................................................................................................108
7.9 The Channel Status Screen ............................................................................................................ 110
7.10 Technical Reference ...................................................................................................................... 111
7.10.1 Wireless Network Overview ................................................................................................. 111
7.10.2 Additional Wireless Terms ................................................................................................... 113
7.10.3 Wireless Security Overview ................................................................................................. 113
7.10.4 Signal Problems .................................................................................................................. 115
7.10.5 BSS ..................................................................................................................................... 116
7.10.6 MBSSID ............................................................................................................................... 116
7.10.7 Preamble Type .................................................................................................................... 117
7.10.8 Wireless Distribution System (WDS) ................................................................................... 117
7.10.9 WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) ............................................................................................... 117
Chapter 8
Home Networking.............................................................................................................................125
8.1 Overview .........................................................................................................................................125
8.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter ..........................................................................................125
8.1.2 What You Need To Know .......................................................................................................126
8.1.3 Before You Begin ...................................................................................................................127
8.2 The LAN Setup Screen ...................................................................................................................127
8.3 The Static DHCP Screen .................................................................................................................131
8.4 The UPnP Screen ...........................................................................................................................132
8.4.1 Turning On UPnP in Windows 7 Example .............................................................................133
8.5 The Additional Subnet Screen ........................................................................................................135
8.6 The STB Vendor ID Screen .............................................................................................................136
8.6.1 The Add/Edit STB Vendor ID Screen ....................................................................................136
8.7 The TFTP Server Name Screen .....................................................................................................137
8.8 Technical Reference ........................................................................................................................138
8.8.1 LANs, WANs and the Device .................................................................................................138
8.8.2 DHCP Setup ..........................................................................................................................138
8.8.3 DNS Server Addresses .........................................................................................................138