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34.3.2 SSID Screen
The SSID screens allow you to configure three different types of profiles for your networked APs: an SSID
list, which can assign specific SSID configurations to your APs; a security list, which can assign specific
encryption methods to the APs when allowing wireless clients to connect to them; and a MAC filter list,
which can limit connections to an AP based on wireless clients MAC addresses.
34.3.2.1 SSID List
This screen allows you to create and manage SSID configurations that can be used by the APs. An SSID,
or Service Set IDentifier, is basically the name of the wireless network to which a wireless client can
connect. The SSID appears as readable text to any device capable of scanning for wireless frequencies
(such as the WiFi adapter in a laptop), and is displayed as the wireless network name when a person
makes a connection to it.
To access this screen click
Configuration > Object > AP Profile > SSID
.
Note: You can have a maximum of 32 SSID profiles on the Zyxel Device.
Figure 391
Configuration > Object > AP Profile > SSID List
Station Retry
Count
Set the maximum number of times a wireless client can attempt to re-connect to the AP
Multicast Settings
Use this section to set a transmission mode and maximum rate for multicast traffic.
Transmission
Mode
Set how the AP handles multicast traffic.
Select
Multicast to Unicast
to broadcast wireless multicast traffic to all of the wireless clients
as unicast traffic. Unicast traffic dynamically changes the data rate based on the
application’s bandwidth requirements. The retransmit mechanism of unicast traffic
provides more reliable transmission of the multicast traffic, although it also produces
duplicate packets.
Select
Fixed Multicast Rate
to send wireless multicast traffic at a single data rate. You must
know the multicast application’s bandwidth requirements and set it in the following field.
Multicast Rate
(Mbps)
If you set the multicast transmission mode to fixed multicast rate, set the data rate for
multicast traffic here. For example, to deploy 4 Mbps video, select a fixed multicast rate
higher than 4 Mbps.
OK
Click
OK
to
save your changes back to the Zyxel Device.
Cancel
Click
Cancel
to exit this screen without saving your changes.
Table 246 Configuration > Object > AP Profile > Add/Edit Radio Profile (continued)
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
