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==Summary==

The <b>Wireless</b> section of the Network tab can be used to manage and configure WiFi Access Points and WiFi Stations (clients) . This chapter of the user manual provides an overview of the Wireless section for {{{name}}} devices.

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The <b>General Setup</b> section is used to turn a wireless device on or off, select the operating frequency (WiFi mode and channel), transmit power and define a country code.  

Many home networks utilize routers that by default run on channel 6 on the 2.4 GHz band. Neighboring WiFi home networks that run over the same channel generate radio interference that can cause significant network performance slowdowns for users. Reconfiguring a network to run on a different wireless channel helps minimize these slowdowns. Therefore, pick a channel with no other active Access Points and preferably one that has no active Access Point on two adjacent channels on each side as well. If you don't feel like doing this, set the 'Channel' field to <i>Auto</i> and the device will pick the least busy channel in your location automatically.  

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       <td>Channel</td>

       <td>A wireless 2.4 GHz WiFi channel requires a signaling band roughly 22 MHz wide, radio frequencies of neighboring channels numbers significantly overlap each other. Therefore, pick a channel with no other active Access Points and preferably one that has no active Access Point on two adjacent channels on each side as well.</td>

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         <td>Transmit Power</td>

         <td>The transmit power of an access point radio is proportional to its effective range – the higher the transmit power, the more distance that a signal can travel, and/or the more physical materials that it can effectively penetrate and still have data successfully resolved at the receiver.</td>

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     <td>Country code</td>

         <td>SO/IEC 3166 alpha2 country codes as defined in ISO 3166-1 standard.</td>

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         <td>integer [15..65535]; default: <b>none</b></td>

         <td>Beacon signal interval in seconds.</td>

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       <th>Operating Frequency (5 GHz)</th>

       <td>off {{!}} on; default: <b>off</b></td>

       <td>Turn this option on to exclude DFS channels from automatic channel selection.</td>

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The <b>Wireless Security</b> tab is used to determine what kind of encryption your WLAN will use.  

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       <td>Encryption</td>

       <td>The type of encryption used on this Wireless Interface.  

Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (<b>OWE</b>) - no password is required and  

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       <td>Cipher</td>

       <td>An algorithm for performing encryption or decryption.</td>

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     <td>Password</td>

         <td>A custom passphrase used for authentication (at least 8 characters long).</td>

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         <td>Network access server identifier.</td>

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The <b>MAC Filter</b> tab is used for setting up rules that allow or exclude devices with specified MAC addresses from connecting to your WiFi network.  

This tab is only visible when Wireless interface Mode is set to <b>Access Point</b>.

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       <td>MAC-address filter</td>

       <td>Defines how the MAC Filter should function.<br>

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       <td>MAC; default: <b>none</b> </td>

       <td>List of MAC addresses to be included or excluded from connecting to your Wireless Access Point.</td>

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       <td>Short Preamble</td>

       <td>Uses Short Preamble, it uses shorter data strings that adds less data to transmit the error redundancy check which means that it is much faster.</td>

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         <td>Disable Inactivity Polling</td>

         <td>Inactivity polling can be disabled to disconnect stations based on inactivity timeout so that idle stations are more likely to be disconnected even if they are still in range of the AP.</td>

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         <td>Disassociate On Low Acknowledgement</td>

         <td>Allow AP mode to disconnect stations/clients based on low Acknowledgement condition.</td>

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{{{name}}} can also work as a WiFi client. Configuring client mode is nearly identical to Access Point, except for the fact that most of the options are dictated by the WiFi Access Point that the router is connecting to. Changing them can result in an interrupted connection to that router.

To begin configuring WiFi Client first click the 'Scan' button to scan the surrounding area and attempt to connect to a new wireless access point.

After which you will be redirected to the window shown below, where you will see list of available WiFi Access Points in the area. Choose one according to your liking and press the '''Join Network''' button next to it.

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       <td>Enable</td>

       <td>Turns an access point configuration on or off.</td>

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