Table of Contents
VMG4927-B50A / VMG9827-B50A / VMG3927-B50B User’s Guide
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7.1.2 What You Need to Know ..................................................................................................... 93
7.2 WiFi ................................................................................................................................................... 94
7.2.1 WiFi Edit .................................................................................................................................. 94
7.3 Guest WiFi ........................................................................................................................................ 96
7.3.1 Edit Guest WiFi ....................................................................................................................... 97
7.4 WPS ................................................................................................................................................... 98
7.5 Advanced Settings ......................................................................................................................... 98
7.6 Channel Status .............................................................................................................................. 101
7.7 MESH .............................................................................................................................................. 103
7.8 Technical Reference .................................................................................................................... 105
7.8.1 Wireless Network Overview ................................................................................................105
7.8.2 Additional Wireless Terms ................................................................................................... 107
7.8.3 Wireless Security Overview ................................................................................................. 107
7.8.4 Signal Problems ................................................................................................................... 109
7.8.5 BSS ......................................................................................................................................... 109
7.8.6 MBSSID .................................................................................................................................. 110
7.8.7 Preamble Type .................................................................................................................... 110
7.8.8 WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) ...............................................................................................110
Chapter 8
Home Networking............................................................................................................................116
8.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 116
8.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter ..................................................................................... 116
8.1.2 What You Need To Know ................................................................................................... 117
8.1.3 Before You Begin ................................................................................................................. 118
8.2 LAN Setup ...................................................................................................................................... 118
8.3 Static DHCP ................................................................................................................................... 122
8.4 UPnP ............................................................................................................................................... 123
8.4.1 Turn On UPnP in Windows 7 Example ................................................................................ 125
8.5 Additional Subnet ......................................................................................................................... 126
8.6 STB Vendor ID ................................................................................................................................ 128
8.7 Wake on LAN ................................................................................................................................ 128
8.8 TFTP Server Name ......................................................................................................................... 129
8.9 Technical Reference .................................................................................................................... 130
8.9.1 LANs, WANs and the VMG ................................................................................................. 130
8.9.2 DHCP Setup ......................................................................................................................... 130
8.9.3 DNS Server Addresses ......................................................................................................... 130
8.9.4 LAN TCP/IP ........................................................................................................................... 131
Chapter 9
Routing..............................................................................................................................................133
9.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 133
9.2 Routing ........................................................................................................................................... 133