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Table of Contents
VMG8924-B10D/B30D User’s Guide
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Chapter 7
Wireless...............................................................................................................................................93
7.1 Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 93
7.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter ....................................................................................... 93
7.1.2 What You Need to Know ..................................................................................................... 93
7.2 The General Screen ...................................................................................................................... 94
7.2.1 No Security ............................................................................................................................. 96
7.2.2 Basic (WEP Encryption) ......................................................................................................... 96
7.2.3 More Secure (WPA(2)-PSK) .................................................................................................. 97
7.3 The Guest/More AP Screen ........................................................................................................... 98
7.3.1 Edit Guest/More AP ............................................................................................................. 99
7.4 MAC Authentication .................................................................................................................... 101
7.5 The WPS Screen ............................................................................................................................ 103
7.6 The WMM Screen .......................................................................................................................... 104
7.7 The Others Screen ........................................................................................................................ 105
7.8 The Channel Status Screen ......................................................................................................... 106
7.9 Technical Reference .................................................................................................................... 107
7.9.1 Wireless Network Overview ................................................................................................107
7.9.2 Additional Wireless Terms ................................................................................................... 109
7.9.3 Wireless Security Overview ................................................................................................. 109
7.9.4 Signal Problems ................................................................................................................... 111
7.9.5 BSS ......................................................................................................................................... 112
7.9.6 MBSSID .................................................................................................................................. 112
7.9.7 Preamble Type .................................................................................................................... 113
7.9.8 WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) ...............................................................................................113
Chapter 8
Home Networking............................................................................................................................120
8.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 120
8.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter ..................................................................................... 120
8.1.2 What You Need To Know ................................................................................................... 121
8.1.3 Before You Begin ................................................................................................................. 122
8.2 The LAN Setup Screen .................................................................................................................. 122
8.3 The Static DHCP Screen ............................................................................................................... 125
8.4 The UPnP Screen ........................................................................................................................... 127
8.4.1 Turning On UPnP in Windows 7 Example .......................................................................... 128
8.5 The Additional Subnet Screen ..................................................................................................... 129
8.6 The STB Vendor ID Screen ............................................................................................................ 131
8.7 The Wake on LAN Screen ............................................................................................................ 131
8.8 The TFTP Server Name Screen ..................................................................................................... 132
8.9 Technical Reference .................................................................................................................... 132
8.9.1 LANs, WANs and the VMG ................................................................................................. 132
8.9.2 DHCP Setup ......................................................................................................................... 133