Discovered Access Points

The DEVICE > Internal Wireless > Settings > Discovered Access Points page lists the access points detected in the area. The wireless security appliance performs an active scan at startup and whenever you manually scan for access points. During a scan, the appliance searches the environment and identifies nearby wireless devices.

The table on the Discovered Access Points page displays information on every access point (including wireless TZ appliances) that can be detected by the wireless security appliance:

Field	Description
MAC Address (BSSID)	The MAC address of the radio interface of the detected access point.
SSID	The radio SSID of the access point.
Channel	The radio channel used by the access point.
Authentication	The type of authentication.
Cipher	The cipher used.
Vendor	The manufacturer of the access point.
Signal Strength	The strength of the detected radio signal.
Max Rate	The fastest allowable data rate for the access point radio.
Connect	Select the icon to connect to the access point.

At the top-right of the page, select Scan Now to run an immediate scan, and select Refresh to update the entries in the Discovered Access Points table.

The Scan Now feature causes a brief service interruption when the device is operating in Access Point mode. This interruption affects connections in the following ways:

• Stateless, non‑persistent protocols (such as HTTP) typically continue without noticeable impact.

• Persistent connections (such as FTP) might be interrupted or disconnected.

  If this interruption is a concern, run Scan Now only when no clients are active or when the temporary disruption is acceptable.