Table of Contents
VMG5313-B10A/-B30A Series User’s Guide
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Chapter 7
Wireless.............................................................................................................................................107
7.1 Overview .........................................................................................................................................107
7.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter ..........................................................................................107
7.1.2 What You Need to Know ........................................................................................................108
7.2 The General Screen .......................................................................................................................108
7.2.1 No Security ............................................................................................................................ 110
7.2.2 Basic (WEP Encryption) ........................................................................................................ 111
7.2.3 More Secure (WPA(2)-PSK) .................................................................................................. 113
7.3 The Guest / More AP Screen .......................................................................................................... 114
7.3.1 Edit Guest / More AP ............................................................................................................ 115
7.4 MAC Authentication ........................................................................................................................ 117
7.5 The WPS Screen ............................................................................................................................ 118
7.6 The WMM Screen ........................................................................................................................... 119
7.7 The WDS Screen ............................................................................................................................120
7.7.1 WDS Scan .............................................................................................................................122
7.8 The Others Screen ..........................................................................................................................122
7.9 The Channel Status Screen ............................................................................................................124
7.10 Technical Reference ......................................................................................................................125
7.10.1 Wireless Network Overview .................................................................................................125
7.10.2 Additional Wireless Terms ...................................................................................................127
7.10.3 Wireless Security Overview .................................................................................................127
7.10.4 Signal Problems ..................................................................................................................129
7.10.5 BSS .....................................................................................................................................130
7.10.6 MBSSID ...............................................................................................................................130
7.10.7 Preamble Type ....................................................................................................................131
7.10.8 Wireless Distribution System (WDS) ...................................................................................131
7.10.9 WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) ...............................................................................................131
Chapter 8
Home Networking.............................................................................................................................139
8.1 Overview .........................................................................................................................................139
8.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter ..........................................................................................139
8.1.2 What You Need To Know .......................................................................................................140
8.1.3 Before You Begin ...................................................................................................................141
8.2 The LAN Setup Screen ...................................................................................................................141
8.3 The Static DHCP Screen .................................................................................................................144
8.4 The UPnP Screen ...........................................................................................................................146
8.4.1 Turning On UPnP in Windows 7 Example .............................................................................147
8.5 The Additional Subnet Screen ........................................................................................................148
8.6 The STB Vendor ID Screen .............................................................................................................150
8.7 The Wake on LAN Screen ..............................................................................................................150
8.8 The TFTP Server Name Screen .....................................................................................................151