Personalizing the general settings for your WiFi network. Hercules HWGEXT-54-LB

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To remove a WiFi computer or device (webcam, game console or other) from the list:

- In the Remove column, click the next to the computers and devices you wish to remove from the filtering list.

- Click Apply.

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Personalizing the general settings for your WiFi network

The following elements of information, preceded by a warning symbol, draw your attention to the fact that the proper functioning of your network may be affected if you modify these settings in WiFi Extender

Manager before you have modified them on your Livebox. If you do not know the function of these settings, we recommend that you keep the default settings.

To access the settings for your WiFi network:

- On the home page, click the Advanced Settings button to access the advanced settings for your WiFi network.

- On the page displayed, Click the Advanced WiFi

settings button to display the available configuration options.

To personalize general settings:

- On the Advanced WiFi settings page, click the

General settings button.

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The WiFi network to extend: field indicates the name of the WiFi network selected during network detection.

Enter another name, if you wish (32 alphanumeric characters maximum).

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- If you want the Hercules WiFi Extender to transmit the same network name as the Livebox, tick the

Transmit with the same name as my network

(recommended) box.

- If you want the Hercules WiFi Extender to transmit a different WiFi network name than that of the

Livebox, untick the Transmit with the same name

as my network (recommended) box.

- Enter the network name to be broadcast by the

Hercules WiFi Extender.

If necessary, change the radio channel used by the local area WiFi network to communicate (from 1 to 13).

Change this setting only if another transmitter is using the same channel, which could result in slower

WiFi performance for your Livebox.

- Select the transmission power (100 % by default).

- Select the WiFi mode to be used by your router:

Mixed, 802.11b or 802.11g.

If you select 802.11b, 802.11g devices will not be able to connect.

If you select 802.11g, 802.11b devices will not be able to connect.

If you select Mixed, 802.11b and g devices will be able to connect.

- If you do not want the network to broadcast its name, tick the Hide your network name (SSID) box.

The SSID is hidden, and the network name is not displayed during detection by a WiFi client (the

Network name (SSID) field is blank in Hercules WiFi

Station, for example).

Make sure that you do not lose or forget this name, as you will need it to connect your WiFi devices.

- The transmission rate is the speed at which data packets are transferred (sent and received). It is set to Auto by default, but can be adjusted from 1Mbps

(min) to 54Mbps (max).

- The Beacon Period lets you set the wireless network detection interval.

- When an RTS threshold is defined, the wireless device asks the access point for authorization to transmit data, thereby avoiding the simultaneous arrival of data (risk of collision).

Changing the RTS threshold may affect the performance of your Livebox.

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