Western Digital My Passport Wireless User Manual - Page 29
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The Connect to screen displays: CONNECTING THE DRIVE 3. Click Hotspot and do one of the following: Click Use Password and enter the password for the Wi-Fi network. Click Use WPS and enter the WPS PIN. Note: The WPS option is not available if your network doesn't have WPS functionality. 4. (Optional) Click the Advanced Options arrow to display more Wi-Fi settings for the hotspot. View or change the settings: Hotspot Advanced Options Clone MAC Address Toggle to On to copy the MAC address of the computer that are you using into the MAC address field on the Passport Wireless drive. This allows the drive to present your computer's MAC address to the Public Wi-Fi network and not use another MAC address (sometimes avoiding additional charges, in hotels and other connection limited services). SSID Broadcast Your wireless clients identify and connect to your Wi-Fi network, using the Wi-Fi name or SSID (Service Set Identifier). The SSID broadcast is On by default. For additional security, you can turn SSID broadcast to Off. MAC Address Unique identifier of the My Passport Wireless drive's interface. Device Name Name that will be shown for the drive on the network as a storage device and by DLNA players. Network Mode Select the DHCP or Static method of assigning the IP addresses for devices connected to the My Passport Wireless network. If you select DHCP, addresses will automatically be assigned to devices that connect to the My Passport Wireless network. If you select Static, you must assign static addresses to clients on the network. IP Address IP address of the My Passport Wireless drive. DHCP Service Service that assigns IP addresses to devices on the My Passport Wireless network. On by default. If you turn the service Off, you must assign static addresses to clients on the network. 24 MY PASSPORT WIRELESS USER MANUAL