Sitecom WLX-2000 manual

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    WLX-2000[...]

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    Introduction Thank you fo r purchasi ng the Si tecom WLX-200 0 Wi- Fi Access Poin t N300. It compl ies with wireless 802.11b/g /n stand ards and can c reate a Wi -Fi n etwork with data transmissi on rates of up to 300Mbps . With the WLX-2000, you can enj oy hig h-speed wireless netw orking throughout you r home wi thout addi tional cabli ng. The WL[...]

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    Table of Conten ts 1 KEY FEATURES ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .... . 5 2 PACKAGE CO NTENTS ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... . 6 3 CAUTIONS .... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ... ..... ..... ..... ..... ...[...]

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    1 KEY FEATURES Features Advantages Incredible D ata Rate up to 300Mbps* Heavy data pa yloads su ch as MPEG video streami ng IEEE 802.11 n Compli ant and backwards com patible w ith 802.11b/g Full y Interoperable wi th IEEE 802.11b / IEEE802.11g compli ant devices wi th legacy prot ection Support 802.1x authe nticator, 802.11i (WPA /WPA2, AES) Provi[...]

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    2 PACKAGE CONTEN TS Open the packag e caref ully, an d make sure tha t none of the i tems li sted below are missing . Do not discard the packin g material s, in case of return; the un it mu st be shipp ed back in its orig inal package. 1. The WLX-2000 Wi-Fi Access Poi nt N300 2. A Quick Install Gui de 3. A CD (User’s Manual ) 4. A Warranty card 5[...]

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    3 CAUTIONS This device’s design and manufacturer has your safety in mind. In order to safely and effectively use this dev ice, please read the follow ing before usage. 3.1 Usage Cautions The user should not mod ify this device. T he environmental temperature sho uld be within +5 ~ +35 degrees Celsius. 3.2 Power The device’s power vol tage is 5 [...]

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    4 PRODUCT LA YOUT Description Network Port You can use this port to connect to a wi red mod em or router to add wi reless fu nction ality. You can al so use these ports t o connect a ddi tional wired device s. OPS Button You can use this bu tton to connect u sin g OPS. OPS Button functions : Press 0-5 sec onds: WPS regi strar Press 15+ se conds: re[...]

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    LED Description From left to right : LED Color Description WLAN Blue Light s up in Blue when WLAN is enabled. Bli nks on traffi c. Power Orange Light s up when power ed ON. Bl inks on TEST/R ESET. OPS White Blin ks when OPS mod e is on. LAN Green Light s up when a LAN c able i s connected.[...]

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    5 NETWORK + S YSTEM REQUIREM ENTS To begin using the WLX- 2000, make sure you meet the following as m inimum requirement s: • PC/Notebook. • 1 Free Ethernet port. • WiFi card/USB dong le (802.11 b/g/n) – opt ional. • PC with a Web-Browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera) • Ethernet compatible CAT 5 cables. • Router or Acces[...]

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    7 INITIAL SET UP WLX-2000 To Manual ly config ure the WLX-2000 connect to th e device wi relessly as de scribed i n the Quick i nstallation guide. Once the connecti on has been establ i shed follow the next steps to manuall y configu re your access poi nt. LOGIN proce dure 1. OPEN your br owser (e.g . Internet Explorer). 2. Type ‘wlx200 0.setup?[...]

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    4. Click OK. 5. You will see the home p age of the WLX-2000. The System sta tus section allows you t o monit or the current stat us of your d evice, the UP tim e, hardware i nformation, s erial n umber as well as firmware v ersion informati on is displ ayed here.[...]

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    8 BASIC SETTINGS Band Please select th e wirel ess band you wish to us e. By selecti ng a different band s ettin g, you’ll be abl e to all ow or deny the wirel ess clients on a c ertain band. MAIN ESSID Pl ease inpu t the ESSID (t he name used t o identi fy this wirel ess access poin t) here. You can in put up t o 32 alphanumerical characters. PL[...]

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    9 ADVANCED S ETTINGS Security This devi ce provides man y types of wi reless secu rity (wi reless data encrypt ion). When you use data encrypti on, data trans ferred by r adi o signals in th e air will become unreadabl e for those pe ople who don ’t know th e correct enc ryption key (encrypti on password). There are fou r types of security l evel[...]

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    WEP Key Length You can select the WEP key len gth for encrypti on, 64-bi t or 128-bit . The larger the ke y will be the hig her level of securi ty is used, bu t the throughpu t will b e lower. Key Format You may sel ect ASCII C haracters (alph anumeric format) or Hexadeci mal Digit s (in the "A-F", "a-f " and "0-9" ran[...]

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    WPA WPA Unic ast Cipher S uite Avail able options are: WPA (TK IP), WPA2 (A ES), and WPA2 Mixed. You can sel ect one of them , but you have to mak e sure your wireless cli ent supports the cipher you sel ected. Pre-shared Ke y Form at Please select th e format of pre-shar ed key here , availabl e options are ‘Passph rase’ (8 to 63 alph anumeric[...]

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    Advanced This tab a llows you to s et the advanced wirel ess options. The options in cluded are Channel Bandwidt h, Fragment Thr eshold , RTS Threshol d, Beacon Inte rval, an d Preamble Type. You shoul d not ch ange these pa ramete rs unless you kn ow what effe ct the chan ges will h ave on the router. Fragment Th reshold Set the Fragmen t thres ho[...]

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    different kin ds of data, t o give hi gher priority to ap plicati ons which require instan t response. Th erefore y ou can im prove the performanc e of suc h network appl icati ons. CTS Protect Enablin g this setti ng will reduce th e chance of radio si gnal colli sions between 802. 11b and 802 .11g wirel ess access points. It’s recommende d to s[...]

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    WPS Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS ) is the si mplest way to establ i sh a connection betw een the wireless cli ents and th e wirel ess router. You d on’t have t o select th e encrypti on mode and fill in a long encrypt ion passphras e every tim e when you try t o setup a wi reless connecti on. You onl y need to press a bu tton on both wirel ess clie[...]

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    10 TOOLBOX SETT INGS System This devi ce provides som e control function s including p assword, IP add ress manag ement, and DHCP s erver functi on. Please g o to Toolb ox, and open th e ‘System ’ tab, to acce ss these functi ons. Bel ow are detai led descri ptions of every cont rol function. Password Sett ings You can chan ge the pas sword use[...]

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    DHCP Client E nd Addr ess Please input t he end IP address of the IP rang e. Domain Name If you wish , you can al so optionall y input the domain name for you r network. This i s optional. Lease Time Please cho ose a lease ti me (the du ration th at every computer can keep a sp ecific IP add ress) of eve ry IP address assi gned by thi s access p oi[...]

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    Backup You can back up all config urations of thi s device to a fil e, so you can m ake seve ral copies of access poi nt configu ration for secu rity reaso ns. Backup Setti ngs Press ‘Save...’ bu tton, an d you’ll be prompted to download t he config uration as a fi le. The defau lt filename i s ‘config.bi n’. You can sav e it as anot her [...]

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    Upgrade If there is a n ew firmwa re avail able, you can up load the fi rmware to the device to g et extra functi ons or probl em fixes. Click the ‘B rowse’ butto n. You’ll be prompted to provide the fi lename of th e firmware upgrade fil e. Please dow nload t he latest fi rmware file from ou r websit e, and use it to upgrade your device. Aft[...]

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    Reset When you th ink th e device is not wo rking p roperly, you can us e this fun ction to resta rt the device; thi s may hel p and sol ve the probl em. This fun ction is useful when the d evice is far f rom you or unreach able. However, if th e device is not respondi ng, you may h ave to sw itch i t off by unplu gging the power pl ug and pluggin [...]

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    Parts of the firmware of the WLX-2000/WL X-2001 are su bject to the GNU general pub lic license. A ppendix A : Licensing I nformation This product includes thir d-party software licensed under the te rms of the GNU Gener al Public License. . You can modify or redi stribute this free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Please[...]

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    with two steps: (1) copyri ght the software, and (2) offer you this li cense which gives you legal permission to copy, di stribute and/or modify the softwar e. Also, for each author's prote ction and ours, we want to make certain that ever yone understands that there i s no warranty for this free software. If the software is modified by someon[...]

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    party, for a charge no more than your cost of physi cally perfor ming source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corre sponding source cod e, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium c ustomarily used for software i nterchange; or, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to [...]

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    the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does no t spe cify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever publ ished by the Free Software Foundation. 10. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program int o other free programs whose distribution condi tions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. F or soft[...]