Asus WL-600g - Manual (Page 24)

WL-600g All-in-1 Wireless ADSL2/2+ Home Gateway User Manual
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Wireless settings
This chapter describes how to configure the wireless features of your ASUS WL-600g
ADSL Wireless Router.
Setting up SSID
SSID stands for Service Set Identifier, also known as the name of a wireless network.
To connect a wireless router, or to form a wireless bridge system, all wireless routers or
APs or clients must have the same SSID.To setup SSID:
1. Click
Wireless -> Basic in the left side menu to open the configuration page.
2. Select Enable Wireless checkbox.
3. You can hide WL-600g from wireless scanning by selecting Hide Access Point, but
wireless clients still can connect to WL-600g by specifying correct SSID.
4. Define the SSID for WL-600g. The default SSID is Default.
5. Press Save/Apply to save and activate the settings.
Setting up wireless security
To protect your wireless network, you need to setup a security mechanism at both
WL-600g and the wireless clients.
Network authentication
Network authentication uses certain types of mechanism to identify authenticated
wireless clients. WL-600g supports the following authentication methods:
Open: This option disables authentication protection for your wireless network.
Under the Open mode, any IEEE802.11b/g wireless client can connect to
your wireless network.
Shared: Shared means using the same WEP keys for authentication and encryption.
802.1X: 802.1X uses RADIUS (Remote Access Dial-Up User Service) server
to authenticate wireless clients with a username and password. It can
authenticate user with different levels of access right.