Garmin HN294DP/DI - Manual (Page 58)

Advanced Configuration
52 EN/LZT 108 6377 R4 - September 2003
The table below describes the parameters:
Parameter Description
Wireless SSID The Wireless SSID (Service Set IDentification) is
the name of your wireless network. The HN294d
comes preconfigured with a unique name, HN294-
xxxxxx, where xxxxxx is the last six digits of its
wireless MAC address. This MAC address can be
found on an information sticker at the bottom of your
HN294d.
If you change the name, make sure you select
something that is unlikely to be used by any other
wireless networks close to you. The SSID is the way
to find your wireless network if there are more than
one. Your wireless clients (laptop, PC, etc) will scan
the air and find the SSID of all available networks. If
more than one, select your own.
Hide SSID Check Hide SSID if you don’t want the HN294d to
send out the SSID to prevent network intrusion by
using WLAN sniffer tools to read the SSID.
Desired Channel In the Desired Channel drop-down list, choose the
channel you wish to use. To optimize the
connection, be sure not to use a channel close to
one used nearby. E.g., if there is another wireless
network running on channel 1 nearby, do not use
channel 2 or 3, but rather channel 4 or preferably 5.
In case you want to deploy many (more than three
or four) different wireless networks at the same
location, it is better to use the same channel twice
than using to adjacent channels.
The number of available channels depends on
national regulation, and will therefore be different for
each country. When you have selected a channel in
the HN294d, the clients will automatically adapt to
that channel upon joining the wireless network.
Authentication Type There are three possible Authentication types: Open
system, Shared Key or Auto.
An access point that operates in “open system”
mode will let any WLAN client associate to the
access point, whereas an access point running in
“shared key” mode will require a proof from each
client trying to connect to the access point in order
to associate. This is d one automatically and is
based on the entered WEP key (which must be the
same in the client and the HN294d).
Selecting “shared key” mode in the HN294d, will in
order to connect, force the clients to select shared