Philips SNB6500 User Manual

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WDS
If the signal strength of a single Wireless Router is not sufficient due to a large
coverage area or attenuation due to walls, with WDS the range of a Wireless Router
can be extended.

All Routers and wireless range extenders (i.e. SNR 6500) in a Wireless Distribution
System must be configured with the same radio channel, and encryption type (WEP /
WPA/WPA2) if that is used.

Note: The WDS feature is not completely specified in IEEE or Wifi standards. Therefore it

cannot be guaranteed that WDS will work with products of different vendors.

WEP
If you use WEP to protect your wireless network, you need to set the same
parameters for the Wireless Router and all your wireless clients.

You may automatically generate encryption keys or manually enter the keys.
To generate the key automatically with passphrase, check the Passphrase box, enter a
string of characters. Select the default key from the drop down menu. Click ‘SAVE
SETTINGS’.

Note: The passphrase can consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters.

To manually configure the encryption key, enter five hexadecimal pairs of digits for
each 64-bit key, or enter 13 pairs for the single 128-bit key.
(A hexadecimal digit is a number or letter in the range 0-9 or A-F.)
Note that WEP protects data transmitted between wireless nodes, but does not
protect any transmissions over your wired network or over the Internet.

WPA/WPA2
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA2) combines Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
(TKIP) and 802.1x mechanisms. It provides dynamic key encryption and
802.1x authentication service.

802.1X
If 802.1x is used in your network, then you should enable this function for the
Wireless Router. These parameters are used for the Wireless Router to connect to
the authentication server.