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Advanced

Mobile Voice HSPA+ Broadband 11n Wireless Router MVBR1210C

• Turn off wireless connectivity completely.

You can completely turn off the wireless portion

of the router. For example, if you use your

notebook computer to wirelessly connect to your router, and you take a business trip, you

can turn off the wireless portion of the router while you are traveling. Other members of

your household who use computers connected to the router through Ethernet cables can

still use the router. To do this, clear the Enable Wireless Router Radio check box on the

Advanced Wireless Settings screen, and then click Apply.

• Hide

your wireless network name (SSID).

By default, the router is set to broadcast its wireless network name (SSID). You can

rest

rict wireless access to your network by not broadcasting the wireless network name

(SSID). To do this, clear the Enable SSID Broadcast check box on the Advanced

Wireless Settings screen, and then click Apply. Wireless devices will not “see” your

router. You need to configure your wireless devices to match the wireless network name

(SSID) of the router.

Note: The SSID of any wireless access adapters needs to match the SSID

you configure in the router. If they do not match, you will not get a

wireless connection to the router.

Restrict Access by MAC Address

For increased security, you can restrict access to the wireless network to allow only specific

computers based on their MAC addresses. You can restrict access to only trusted computers

so that unknown computers cannot wirelessly connect to the Mobile Voice HSPA+

Broadband 11n Wireless Router. MAC address filtering adds an obstacle against unwanted

access to your network, but the data broadcast over the wireless link is fully exposed.

Note: If you configure the router from a wireless computer, add your

computer’s MAC address to the access list. Otherwise you will lose

your wireless connection when you click Apply. You need to then

access the router from a wired computer, or from a wireless

computer that is on the access control list, to make any further

changes.

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