User manual NETGEAR MA311

[. . . ] NETGEAR ® IEEE 802. 11b Wireless PCI Adapter 11 Mbps Model MA311 User's Guide i © 2002 by NETGEAR, Inc. NETGEAR® , the Netgear Logo, the Gear Guy, and Everybody's connecting are trademarks or registered trademarks of Netgear, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. [. . . ] After changing parameters, Save the profile and click the Activate button to put it into effect. If one of the profiles is no longer used, you may remove it by clicking the Delete button. You can have multiple profiles and modify a profile at any time. Configuration Network mode SSID Configurable between 802. 11 Ad-hoc and Infrastructure modes. In 802. 11 Ad-hoc mode, the wireless nodes form their own local network where the end nodes communicate peer-to-peer without an access point. In Infrastructure mode, the wireless searches all available wireless channels to associate with an access point. Enter a 32-character (maximum) Service Set ID in this field; the characters are case sensitive. When the wireless node is operating in Ad-hoc mode, this field operates as the Basic Service Set ID (BSSID). All wireless nodes in the same network should use 19 Transmit Rate Channel Preamble Type Fragmentation Threshold RTS/CTS Threshold the same BSSID. When in Infrastructure mode, this field defines the Extended Service Set ID (ESSID). The ESSID assigned to the wireless node is required to match the access point ESSID for the wireless node to communicate with the access point. Allows you to define the data transfer rate. In this case, the best transfer rate is negotiated between the wireless node and the device it is communicating with. This could be another wireless node or an access point. Other possible values for this field are 1 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 5. 5 Mbps, and 11 Mbps. Only valid in 802. 11 Ad-hoc mode, this field defines which wireless channel to use. In Infrastructure mode, the wireless node automatically searches through all available wireless channels for an access point to be associated with. It is not necessary to select the wireless channel when operating in Infrastructure mode. Sets the number of preamble bits sent out by this wireless node before the actual data bits. The packet length used for fragmentation. Packets larger than the size programmed in this field will be fragmented. The Fragment Threshold value must be larger than RTS Threshold value. The default value for Fragment Threshold is 2432. [. . . ] In this configuration, the access points are configured with the same Extended Service Set ID (ESSID). Wireless clients configured with the same ESSID can freely roam from one Access Point domain to another and still maintain seamless connection to the network Authentication and WEP Encryption The absence of a physical connection between nodes makes the wireless links vulnerable to information theft. To provide a certain level of security, IEEE 802. 11 standard has defined two types of authentication methods, Open System and Shared Key. Open System authentication is a null algorithm. [. . . ]