Wireless Access Point
User Guide
Isolate Client
This parameter implements a function similar to the VLAN function for wired networks. It isolates the
wireless devices connected to the same WiFi network, so that the wireless devices can access only the
wired network connected to the AP. You can apply this function to hotspot setup in public such as hotels
and airports to improve network security.
WMF
The number of wireless devices keeps increasing currently, but wired and wireless bandwidth resources
are limited. Therefore, the multicast technology, which enables single-point data transmission and
multi-point data reception, has been widely used in networks in order to reduce bandwidth requirements
and prevent network congestion.
Nevertheless, if a large number of devices are connected to a wireless interface of a WiFi network and
multicast data is intended for only one of the devices, the data is still sent to all the devices, which
increases unnecessary wireless resource usage and may lead to wireless channel congestion. In addition,
multicast stream forwarding over an 802.11 network is not secure, either.
The WMF function of the AP converts multicast traffic into unicast traffic and forwards the traffic to the
multicast traffic destination in the WiFi network, helping save wireless resources, ensuring reliable
transmission, and reducing delays.
Max. Number of Clients
This parameter specifies the maximum number of devices that can connect to the WiFi network
corresponding to an SSID. If the number is reached, the WiFi network rejects new connection requests
from devices. This limit helps balance load among APs.
Chinese SSID Encoding
It specifies the encoding format of Chinese SSIDs, which consists of UTF-8 (default) and GB2312. This
setting is effective only when an SSID contains Chinese characters. If you want your Chinese SSID to be
displayed properly, select the encoding format supported by you wireless devices.
Security Mode
A WiFi network uses radio open to the public as its data transmission medium. If the WiFi network is not
protected by necessary measures, any device can connect to the network to access unprotected data over
the network or the resources of the network. To ensure communication security, transmission links of
WiFi network must be encrypted.
The AP supports various security modes for network encryption, including None, WEP, WPA-PSK,
WPA2-PSK, Mixed WPA/WPA2-PSK, WPA, and WPA2.
None
It indicates that any wireless device can connect to the WiFi network. This option is not recommended
because it leads to network insecurity.
WEP
It uses a static key to encrypt all exchanged data, and ensures that a WiFi LAN has the same level of
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