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WR1500 4-Port Wireless DSL/Cable Router

This chapter provides information on the Wizard Setup screens in the Web Conﬁ guration

Utility.

3.1 Wizard Setup Overview

The Web Conﬁ guration Utility’s setup wizard helps you conﬁ gure your WR1500 Wireless

Router for Internet access and set up wireless LAN.

3.1.1 Channel

The range of radio frequencies used by IEEE 802.1 lb wireless devices is called a “channel”.

Channels available depend on your geographical area. You may have a choice of channels

(for your region) so you should use a different channel than an adjacent AP (Wireless Router)

to reduce interference. Interference occurs when radio signals from different Wireless Routers

overlap causing interference and degrading performance.

Adjacent channels partially overlap however. To avoid interference due to overlap, your AP

should be on a channel at least ﬁ ve channels away from a channel that an adjacent AP is

using. For example, if your region has 11 channels and an adjacent AP is using channel 1,

then you need to select a channel between 6 or 11.

The WR1500 Wireless Router’s “Scan” function is especially designed to automatically scan

for a channel with the least interference.

3.1.2 ESSID

An Extended Service Set (ESS) is a group of Wireless Routers or wireless gateways

connected to a wired LAN on the same subnet. An ESS ID uniquely identiﬁ es each set. All

Wireless Routers or wireless gateways and their associated wireless stations in the same set

must have the same ESSID.

3.1.3 WEP Encryption

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encrypts data frames before transmitting over the wireless

network. WEP encryption scrambles the data transmitted between the wireless stations

and the Wireless Routers to keep network communications private. It encrypts unicast and

multicast communications in a network. Both the wireless stations and the Wireless Routers

must use the same WEP key for data encryption and decryption.

Chapter 3:

Wizard Setup

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