User manual NETGEAR WPN824EXT

[. . . ] 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA 202-10310-02 April 2008 © 2008 by NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved. Technical Support and Documentation Please refer to the support information card that shipped with your product. When you register your product at http://www. netgear. com/register, we can provide you with faster expert technical support and timely notices of product and software upgrades. E-mail: support@netgear. com North American NETGEAR website: http://www. netgear. com Setup documentation is available on the Resource CD, on the support website, and on the documentation website. [. . . ] Enable or fill in the following fields, as appropriate: · Enable Wireless Extender Radio. If selected, attached wireless clients will be able to access the Internet. If not selected, attached wireless clients will not be able to access the Internet. The Wireless status light on the front of the wireless extender will also display the current status of the WiFi range extender (on, off) to let you know if it is disabled or enabled. If selected, the WiFi range extender's SSID will broadcast its name (SSID) to all attached wireless clients. Attached wireless clients that have no SSID (or a null value) can then adopt the correct SSID for connections to the extender. If you disable broadcast of the SSID, only devices that have the correct SSID can connect. Disabling SSID broadcast nullifies the wireless network discovery feature of some products such as Windows XP. This setting is reserved for wireless testing and advanced configuration only. For best performance, leave this at the default setting (2347). · · Implementing Appropriate Wireless Security v1. 0, April 2008 2-7 RangeMax WiFi Range Extender WPN824EXT User Manual · Fragmentation Length (256­2346). Packets larger than the size entered in this field will be fragmented. The Fragment Threshold value must be larger than the RTS Threshold value. If this checkbox is selected, the WiFi range extender will not perform data compression, packet bursting, and large frame support. This technology, eXtended Range(XR), requires no additional configuration and provides significantly longer range over 802. 11 by maintaining connectivity when signals encounter barriers. For the best performance, leave this check box selected, the default setting. By default, any wireless computer that is configured with the correct SSID will be allowed access to your wireless network. For increased security, you can restrict access to the wireless network to allow only specific computers based on their MAC addresses. The Wireless Card Access Setup screen displays a list of wireless computers that are allowed to connect to the WiFi range extender based on their MAC addresses. These wireless computers must also have the correct SSID and WEP settings configured on the Wireless Settings screen to access the wireless network. · · · 3. Select the Turn Access Control On check box to restrict wireless computers by their MAC addresses. Click Apply to save your settings. 2-8 Implementing Appropriate Wireless Security v1. 0, April 2008 RangeMax WiFi Range Extender WPN824EXT User Manual 4. Use the Add, Edit, and Delete buttons to add wireless computers to the list. [. . . ] If the device to be prioritized appears in the MAC Device List, select it. The information from the MAC Device List will be used to populate the policy name, MAC Address, and Device Name fields. From the Priority drop-down list, select the priority that this device's traffic should receive relative to other applications and traffic when accessing the Internet. Click Apply to save this rule to the QoS Policy list and return to the QoS Setup screen. [. . . ]