Network Name Setting

[Fumbler]

I'm getting confused by all the seemingly similar abbreviations and identifiers.

My network and information sources seem to say:
SSID = Network Name.
My PCI Wireless Adapter card settings have two name fields:
Configuration Name, presently "Default"; and
Network Name (SSID), presently blank.
There's a BSSID field, which is set to the MAC Address of the WAP.

My WAP shows two fields, one called SSID (presently default set to "default" - but shouldn't this be the same as that of the PCI Adapter?) and System Name (presently set as "admin").

My router has so many fields for names, many presently blank, that I'm not sure what to do with them:
the WAN page has an optional Host Name (presently blank - should it be my ISP; my own network name; does it do anything?);
the LAN a blank Domain Name.

On the DDNS page, wherein the DDNS is disabled, I'm presented with an alternative Provider list {DynDNS.org, TZO.com, and dhs.org), the fields for Host Name (blank), Username/E-mail (blank) and Password/Key (blank).

The SNMP, which I understand I can use for network management, has two name fields: there's Get Community, presently set as "public", and Set Community, set as "private". I think these ought to be both set to the same, and that should be the same as the SSID. Am I correct?

I'm using dynamic IP Addressing for my WAN; but cannot get the network to interconnect on the LAN side if I set the PCs wireless adapter cards to this - they have to have both their IP address, Gateway IP Address, and the DNS set to specific values for me to get 'net access.

[Greenstead]

Confusing isn't it. Maybe I can help.

The most important is SSID. It has to be set the same in the WAP and the wireless cards.

If you are using a cable router to connect to a cable ISP (e.g. NTL) then you can probably forget all the rest.

If your network is not connecting we can run thro the settings for router and NICs.

[Fumbler]

Thanks for the response.

And the reat relief that I can ignore most of this stuff - yes, I am with ntl.

I'll just make all the SSID fields the same name.

Cheers, Ian

[unixfan]

To give some insight, there used to be 2 terms for SSID, BSSID and ESSID.

BSSID was the SSID for Adhoc(Peer to Peer) networks.

ESSID was the SSID for Infrastructure(AP) networks.

They since just changed all to SSID and just made a setting on the client side to either be Adhoc or infrastructure mode.

[Fumbler]

Thanks Unixfan. Every bit of illumination helps - especially in the dark

Regards, Ian