Configure advanced Wi-Fi settings

The Wi-Fi tab enables you to control some advanced settings for your Wi-Fi network.

 CONFIGURE WI-FI

To configure advanced Wi-Fi settings:

  1. Sign in to Cobweb using the email and password you utilize for your Fiber account.

  2. Select Network at the top-left corner. (If you don't see it, click the navigation menu to display the option.)

  3. In the settings pane, click Advanced; then click the Wi-Fi tab.

Change advance Wi-Fi settings in Google Fiber account

If you take a Mini Network Box, the 5 GHz Wi-Fi SSID option is unavailable, because the Mini Network Box has but a 2.4 GHz radio channel.

If your Boob tube Box is enabled as a Wi-Fi admission point, you can change its Wi-Fi channel.

Change Wi-Fi channel in Google Fiber account

Broadcast Wi-Fi SSID

Dissemination the SSID causes the name of your network to announced in the list of bachelor networks when a nearby wireless device is looking for a Wi-Fi connection. Past default, SSID broadcasting is enabled; all the same, you can disable SSID broadcasting on the Wi-Fi tab, if desired.

To enable or disable SSID dissemination:

  1. Next to Broadcast Wi-Fi SSID, click the switch to change it fromOFF toON or vice versa.

  2. Click Apply.

5 GHz Wi-Fi SSID

 The 5 GHz Wi-Fi SSID choice is unavailable for the Mini Network Box.

Past default, your Wi-Fi network uses the network name you lot specify when you configure your Wi-Fi network for both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies. When wireless devices effort to connect to Wi-Fi, they see only that 1 SSID.

You tin can assign a dissimilar network proper noun (SSID) for the 5 GHz radio, if desired, and then users tin determine which frequency they want to use when connecting to your Wi-Fi network.

Before choosing advanced Wi-Fi options, yous might want to compare wireless frequencies to run into how they affect your wireless network.

To assign a different SSID for the 5 GHz radio:

  1. Next to five GHz Wi-Fi SSID, click Other, and enter a new SSID for that frequency.

    Assign a Wi-Fi frequency to a different network name SSID.

    The SSID isinstance-sensitive and must be 8 to 32 characters long. Be certain to use merely letters and numbers—don't use spaces or special characters, such as !, @, #, $, ?, *, etc. If your SSID is exterior of this graphic symbol limit, or if there is an accidental space at the beginning or end of your network name, yous may have connection bug.

  2. Click Utilise. The new setting takes effect immediately. At present you tin can connect your devices to the new network.

If yous're having problem finding or connecting to the newly created five GHz network, powercycle your Network Box. Manufacturing plant reset it adjacent if powercycling doesn't work.

If you lot assign a different SSID for the v GHz radio:

  • The countersign for the 5 GHz network is the same as the existing password for the 2.four GHz network. You tin can't create different passwords for the two networks; if you change the password, information technology changes for both.

  • When wireless devices are connected at five GHz, those devices disconnect when you clickUse; however, 2.4 GHz connections are unaffected.

  • The network name you specified when you configured your Wi-Fi network appears for the 2.iv GHz radio only.

  • If you enable SSID dissemination, wireless devices run into both SSIDs when they connect. The broadcast setting applies to both SSIDs, whether you accept one or two SSIDs.

Channels

All Wi-Fi network equipment, including client devices and routers, communicate over specific channels. Similar to channels on a traditional TV, each Wi-Fi channel is designated by a number that represents a specific radio advice frequency.

Past default, the Network Box (and TV Boxes, if enabled equally access points) automatically set and adjust their channels equally part of their communication protocol. Most of the time, you do not need to worry about these settings. All the same, you might want to change your Wi-Fi aqueduct in sure situations, particularly if your Wi-Fi network seems slower than usual.

The Channels setting allows you lot to select the channel of your choice for each frequency on your network or to allow the Network Box to adapt the aqueduct automatically.

You tin use one of the many Wi-Fi analysis apps bachelor that betoken which channels nearby have the strongest signal.

If y'all select a specific channel, your Fiber devices will always use that channel. This means that if the radio frequency interference (RFI) in your environment changes over time, y'all could end upwardly on a sub-optimal aqueduct. That is why Google Cobweb recommends that you proceed the Automatic setting.

To set the channel manually:

  1. Next to Channels, select the channel you want for each frequency (or for the desired frequency) from the drop-downward lists.

  2. Click Apply.

Legacy mode (WPA/WPA2)

Google Fiber set WPA2 encryption equally the default for the Network Box, because this security protocol provides the highest level of security and privacy available on consumer devices today. If you have an older Wi-Fi customer that requires WPA, you lot can use the legacy mode setting to back up both WPA- and WPA2-uniform devices.

Legacy mode is unavailable in Wi-Fi settings if you have a Mini Network Box or Network Box GRFR100 or GFRG110.

To add legacy style:

  1. Next to Legacy mode, click the switch to modify it from OFF to ON.

  2. Click Utilize

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