PW201A Wireless N Powerline AP User Guide 
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¾  11g mode: Select it if you have only Wireless-G clients in your wireless 
network. 
¾  11b/g  mixed  mode:  Select  it  if  you  have  only  Wireless-B  and 
Wireless-G clients in your wireless network. 
¾  11b/g/n mixed mode: Select it if you have Wireless-B, Wireless-G and 
Wireless-N clients concurrently present in your wireless network. 
¾  SSID: A SSID (Service Set Identifier) is the unique name of a wireless 
network. This field is configurable.   
¾  SSID  Broadcast:  Select  “Enable”/“Disable”  to  make  your  wireless 
network visible/ invisible to any wireless clients within coverage when 
they perform a scan to see what’s available. By default, it is enabled. 
When  disabled,  this  SSID  becomes  invisible  to  any  wireless  clients 
within the coverage. Manually enter the SSID if you want to connect to 
it. 
¾  Channel:  For  an  optimal  wireless  performance,  you  may  select  the 
least  interferential  channel.  It  is  advisable  that  you  select  an  unused 
channel  or  “Auto”  to  let  device  detect  and  select  the  best  possible 
channel  for  your  wireless  network  to  operate  on  from  the  drop-down 
list. 
¾     Channel  Bandwidth:  Select  a  proper  channel  bandwidth  to  enhance 
wireless performance. When there are 11b/g and 11n wireless clients, 
please  select  the  802.11n  mode  of  20/40M,  when  there  are  only 
non-11n wireless clients, select 20M frequency band mode; when  the 
wireless network mode is 11n mode, please select 20/40 frequency 
band to boost its throughput.