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Table of Contents
EMG6726/8726-B10A User’s Guide
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7.1.2 What You Need to Know ..................................................................................................... 77
7.2 The WiFi Screen .............................................................................................................................. 78
7.2.1 The WiFi Edit Screen ............................................................................................................. 78
7.3 The Guest WiFi Screen .................................................................................................................... 80
7.3.1 Edit Guest WiFi ...................................................................................................................... 81
7.4 The WPS Screen .............................................................................................................................. 82
7.5 The Advanced Screen ................................................................................................................... 82
7.6 The Channel Status Screen ........................................................................................................... 85
7.7 The MESH Screen ............................................................................................................................ 87
7.8 Technical Reference ...................................................................................................................... 89
7.8.1 Wireless Network Overview .................................................................................................. 89
7.8.2 Additional Wireless Terms ..................................................................................................... 91
7.8.3 Wireless Security Overview ................................................................................................... 91
7.8.4 Signal Problems ..................................................................................................................... 93
7.8.5 BSS ........................................................................................................................................... 93
7.8.6 MBSSID .................................................................................................................................... 94
7.8.7 Preamble Type ...................................................................................................................... 94
7.8.8 WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) ................................................................................................. 95
Chapter 8
Home Networking........................................................................................................................... 100
8.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 100
8.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter ..................................................................................... 100
8.1.2 What You Need To Know ................................................................................................... 101
8.1.3 Before You Begin ................................................................................................................. 102
8.2 The LAN Setup Screen .................................................................................................................. 102
8.3 The Static DHCP Screen ............................................................................................................... 106
8.4 The UPnP Screen ........................................................................................................................... 107
8.4.1 Turning on UPnP in Windows 7 Example ........................................................................... 108
8.4.2 Auto-discover Your UPnP-enabled Network Device ...................................................... 110
8.4.3 Turn on UPnP in Windows 10 Example .............................................................................. 112
8.4.4 Auto-discover Your UPnP-enabled Network Device ...................................................... 114
8.4.5 Web Configurator Easy Access in Windows 7 ................................................................. 117
8.4.6 Web Configurator Easy Access in Windows 10 ............................................................... 119
8.5 The Additional Subnet Screen ..................................................................................................... 121
8.6 The STB Vendor ID Screen ............................................................................................................ 122
8.7 The Wake on LAN Screen ............................................................................................................ 122
8.8 The TFTP Server Name Screen ..................................................................................................... 123
8.9 Technical Reference .................................................................................................................... 123
8.9.1 LANs, WANs and the EMG .................................................................................................. 123
8.9.2 DHCP Setup ......................................................................................................................... 124
8.9.3 DNS Server Addresses ......................................................................................................... 124
8.9.4 LAN TCP/IP ........................................................................................................................... 125