Chapter 8 Wireless LAN
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8.9 One SSID Screen
Select Enable to use the same settings for 2.4G and 5G WiFi networks. Otherwise, select Disable.
Band steering will not work if you select Disable here. For more information on band steering, see Section
1.3.1 on page 11.
Click Wireless > One SSID to open the following screen.
Figure 50 Wireless > One SSID
8.10 Technical Reference
This section discusses WiFis in depth. For more information, see Appendix A on page 92.
8.10.1 Wireless Network Overview
Wireless networks consist of wireless clients, access points and bridges.
• A wireless client is a radio connected to a user’s computer.
• An access point is a radio with a wired connection to a network, which can connect with numerous
wireless clients and let them access the network.
• A bridge is a radio that relays communications between access points and wireless clients, extending
a network’s range.
Traditionally, a wireless network operates in one of two ways:
• An “infrastructure” type of network has one or more access points and one or more wireless clients.
The wireless clients connect to the access points.
• An “ad-hoc” type of network is one in which there is no access point. Wireless clients connect to one
another in order to exchange information.
Every wireless network must follow these basic guidelines.
• Every device in the same wireless network must use the same SSID.
The SSID is the name of the wireless network. It stands for Service Set IDentifier.
• If two wireless networks overlap, they should use a different channel.
Like radio stations or television channels, each wireless network uses a specific channel, or frequency,
to send and receive information.
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