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Advantek Networks AWN-AP-54MR manual

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    802. 11b+g Acc ess Point User Manual Model: A WN-AP-54MR[...]

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    FCC Certifi cations This equipment has been tested and f ound to com ply with the lim its f or a Class B digital de vice, pursuant to Part 15 of the FC C Rules. These lim its are desig ned to provide reasonable protection against harmful interf erence in a res idential ins tallation. This equipment generates, uses and can r adiate radio f requenc y[...]

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    Table of Content Introduct ion 1 F EATURES ........................................................................................ ............ 1 A PPLICATION ........................................................................................ ........ 2 P ARTS N AMES AND F UNCTIO NS ............................................................[...]

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    1 INTRODU CTION This is an IEEE802.11 b/g compliant 11 Mbps & 54 Mbps Ethern et W ireless Access Point. The W ireless Acces s Point is equip ped with t wo 10/100 M Auto- sensing Ethernet p orts for connecting to LAN and al so for cascading to nex t W ireless Access Point. This Access Point pro vides 64/128b it W EP encr yption, W PA and IEEE8 0[...]

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    2 Application Example 1 Example 2[...]

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    3 Parts Names and Functions 1. Front Pan el: (LED In dicators) LED Status Indicator Color Solid Flashing 1 Power Green Turns solid green when power is app lied to this device. N/A. 2 Status Red Turns solid red when the device is booting, after boot sc uessfull y, the light tur n off. Link/ Act. Green Turns solid green when connected an d associated[...]

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    4 WDS Orange Turn s olid orange when W DS is enabled. N/A 7 LAN 1 8 LAN 2 Green Turns solid green when linked to a local network. Receiving/ Sending data Table 1: L ED Indicato rs 2. Rear Panel: Connect ion Ports Port/butto n Function s A 12V DC Connects the power ada pter plug B LAN1 Connects to E thernet C LAN2 Connects to E thernet D (Factor y) [...]

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    5 Factory Default Settings Setting Wireless Access Poin t Device Nam e Wireless AP SSID Default value : 802.11g -AP Channel 11 W EP Default value : Disabled IP Address 192.16 8.1. 254 [...]

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    6 H A RDW ARE CONNE CTI ON Note: Bef ore you start ing hardware connect ion, y ou ar e advise d to f ind an appropriate location to pla ce the Access Point. Usually, the bes t place for the Access Point is at the cent er of y our wireless network , with line of straight t o al l your wireless stat ions. Als o, reme mber to adjust the antenna; usual[...]

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    7 About the Operation Modes This dev ice prov ides four operati onal app lications with Access Poin t, B ridge, Client ( Ad-hoc) an d Cli ent ( Infrastructure) modes , whic h are mutuall y exclusive. This devic e is sh ipped with c onfiguration th at is f unctio nal right out of t he box. If you want to change the settings in ord er to perf orm m o[...]

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    8 Refer to the illustratio n belo w. This statio n (AP1 plus the connect ed com puter 1) can associate to another Access Point (AP2), and the n can ha ve th e Internet access if the other Acc ess Point (A P2) has th e Internet c onnection. To set the o peration mode to Clien t (Inf rastructure), pleas e go to “ Wireless     Basic Sett[...]

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    9 CONFIGUR ATION Login 1. Start your com puter. Co nnect an Ethern et cab le bet ween your com puter and the W ireless Acc ess Point. 2. Make sure your wired sta tion is set to the same subnet as the W ireless Access Poi nt, i.e. 192.16 8.1.25 4 3. Start your W EB browser. In the Address box, enter th e follow ing: HTTP://192. 168.1.254 The conf ig[...]

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    10 Status In this screen, you ca n see the curr ent settings and status of this Acc ess Point. You c an change s ettings b y selecti ng specif ic tab descr ibed in below. System System Uptime The tim e period since th e device was up. Firmware V ersion The cur rent version of the f irmware inst alled in th is device. Wireless Con figuration Wireles[...]

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    11 SSID The SSID d ifferentiates one W LAN from another, therefore, a ll access points and all dev ices attem pting to connect t o a specif ic W LAN m ust use the sam e SSID. It is c ase- sensitive and m ust not exceed 32 characters . A device will not be per mitted to j oin the BSS unless it can pro vide the unique SSID. An SSID i s also ref erred[...]

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    13 Wireless Basic Settings This page includes all prim ary and m ajor par ameters . An y param eter chang e will cause the device to r eboot for the new setti ngs to t ake eff ect.     Disable Wirele ss L AN Interface Check the box to disab le t he W ireless LAN Interface, by s o d oing, you won’ t be abl e to m ake wireless connectio[...]

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    14 rate and 802.1 1g support ed rate. The def ault is 2.4GHz (B +G) mode. Mode This W ireless Acc ess Point can s upport four m odes AP , Client, Brid ge and Repeater. Netw ork Type W hen in Client m ode, you can s elect between Ad-Hoc and In frastructu re . SSID The SSID di ff erentiates one W LAN from another, theref ore, all ac cess points and a[...]

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    15 screen. Reset Press to dis card the d ata you have entered si nce last t ime you press Ap ply Change. Advanced Se ttings It is not recomm ended that settings i n this page to be chan ged unless advanced users want to ch ange to m eet their wireless en vironm ent f or opt imal perform ance Authenticat ion T ype To provide a cert ain lev el of sec[...]

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    16 Open S ystem network . W ired Equiva lent Privac y ( W EP) data encryption is used w hen the wireless devices ar e c onfigured to operate in S hared Ke y authentica tion m ode. If the Access Point is us ing Open S ystem , then the wireless adapt er will need to be s et to the sam e authenticati on mode. Shared Ke y is used when both the sender a[...]

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    17 data. Upon rec eipt, the Acc ess Point will respo nd with a CT S m essage to all station within its range to notify all other stations to def er transm ission. It will also co nfirm the re questor station that the Access Point h as res erved i t for the t ime- fram e of the requested trans mis sion. If the “Hidden Node” problem is an issue, [...]

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    18 IAPP IAPP (Inter Acc ess Point Protoco l) is designed f or the enforc ement of un ique ass ociation throu ghout a ESS ( Extended Servic e Set) and a sec ure ex change of st ation’s securit y c ontex t between current acc ess point (AP) an d new AP during hand off period. 802.11g Prot ection The 802.11g sta ndard includes a protecti on m echani[...]

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    19 Securit y Here y ou can conf igure the sec urity of your wire less networ k. Selectin g different m ethod will enab le you to ha ve differ ent level of security. Pleas e note that by using an y enc ryption, b y which data pack et is encrypted before transm ission to prevent data pac kets from being eav esdropped by unr elated people, t here m ay[...]

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    20 Set WEP key  Click the Set W EP Keys will prom pt you a window to s et 64bit or 1 28bit Enc ryption.  Select HEX if you are usi ng h exadecim al number s ( 0-9, o r A-F ). Se lect ASCII if you are using ASCII char acters ( case- sensitive ).  Ten hexadecim al digits or fiv e ASCII characters ar e need ed if 64-b it WEP is used; 26 hexad[...]

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    21 Authenticati on will b e acti vated. M ake sure the same pass word is use d on clien t's end. There are two formats for choice t o set th e Pre- shared k ey, i.e. Passphrase and Hex . If Hex is selected, us ers will have t o enter a 64 characters string. F or easi er c onfiguration , the Passph rase (at least 8 charac ters) f ormat is rec o[...]

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    22 Wireless Access Control M ode Select the Access Control Mode from the pull- down menu. Disable : Selec t to d isable W ireless Acces s Contr ol Mode. Allow List ed : O nly the st ations s hown in the tab le can associat e with the AP. Deny L isted : Stations s hown in the table won’ t be able to ass ociate with th e AP. M A C Address Enter the[...]

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    23 clear all the se lect m ark.[...]

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    24 TCP/IP Basic In this page, you can chan ge the TCP/I P sett ings of t his Acc ess P oint, s elect t o enable/disa ble the DHC P Client, 80 2.1d Span ning T ree, and C lone MAC Address. IP Address This field can be m odified only when DHC P C lient is disabled. If your system m anager as signed you stat ic IP s ettings, then you will have to ente[...]

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    25 DHCP Client Range 253 I P ad dresses contin uing from 192.168.1.1 t o 192.168.1.2 53 Show Client Click to sho w Active DHCP Client tab le. DNS Serve r Enter the Dom ain Nam e Service I P address. 802.1d Spanning Tree To enable 802.1d Sp anning T ree w ill pre vent the network f rom infinite loops . Infinite loop wi ll happen in the network when [...]

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    26 Reset Press to discard the data you have ent ered since last tim e you press Ap ply Chan ge.[...]

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    27 Other Upgrade Firmw are 1. Download the lat est firm ware f rom y our distrib utor and save the f ile on the hard dr ive. 2. Start the browser, open the configuration page, c lick on Other, and click Upgrade Firmw are to enter the Up grade Fir mware windo w. Enter the new firmwar e’s path and file name (i.e. C:FIRMW AREfirm ware.bin). Or, c [...]

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    28 Save/Reload S ettings This function en ables users to s ave t he curr ent c onfigu rations as a file (i.e. config.dat ) To load conf iguration f rom a file, enter the f ile nam e or click Browse… to f ind the f ile from your computer. Save Sett ings to File: Click SAVE.. to sav e t he current conf iguration t o file. W hen prom pted the upp er[...]

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    29 Load S ettings From File: Click Brow se… if you want to load a pre- saved f ile, enter the f ile nam e with th e correc t path and t hen cli ck on Upload . O r click Browse… to se lect the f ile. Reset : C lick to restore the default conf iguration.[...]

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    30 Password For s ecure r eason, it is recomm ended th at you se t t he acc ount to ac cess the web server of this Acc ess Point. Leaving the user nam e and pas sword blank will disable the protec tion. T he login scr een prom pts imm ediately once y ou finish settin g t he a ccoun t and password. Rem ember your us er nam e and password for you wil[...]

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    31 Enable Log Select System all or W ireless onl y . Apply Chang es Press to sa ve the ne w settings on the screen . Refresh Click to ref resh the sc reen. Clear Click to clear t he current settin g.[...]