Advantek Networks AWN-54HP-ORT manual

© 2009 Outdoor User's Manual of Outdoor WLAN Broadband router USER MANUAL 1.0.0[...]

-2- Table of Contents Chapter I Installation 5 ................................................................................................................................... 5 1. Hardware Installation ................................................................................................................................................[...]

-3- ................................................................................................................................... 62 4. Troubleshooting Chapter III Troubleshooting 68 Chapter IV Terminology 74 Chapter V FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) 76 .........................................................................................[...]

-4- ................................................................................................................................... 82 34. What is Guard Intervals (GI)? Chapter VI Configuration examples 83 ................................................................................................................................... 83 1. Ex[...]

Installation -5- 1 Installation 1.1 Hardware Installation 1.1.1 Appearance Introduction 1.LED Panel 2.Waterproof Sliding Door[...]

-6- 3.Pass through Ethernet cable from this hole 4.Push these bottoms to remove upper housing[...]

Installation -7- 5.Wall Mount 6.Pole Mount[...]

-8- 1.1.2 Internal interface introduction 7.Integrated 14dbi dual polarity antenna[...]

Installation -9- 8.Pillars to fasten cabels, to avoid PCB is broken by pulling and draging cables 9.WAN Port with POE 10.LAN1 Ports with POE LAN2~LAN4 without POE 11.Reset Button 12.SMA connector Notes:the product shot is for reference only please refer to physical product 1.1.3 Hardware installation steps Step1: push buttons in the sides to remove[...]

-10- Step2:Pull open the click and dismantle the antenna board Step3:Pass through Ethernet cable from the hole, insert the cable to WAN port or LAN1 Port. Notes1:RJ-45 8P8C Ethernet cable is required Notes2:If RJ-45 connect to the WAN Port, set the GUI only can use wireless adapter connect to Outdoor Broadband Router. Open a WEB browser, i.e. Micro[...]

Installation -11- Step4:Install the antenna. Make sure the Antenna is well installed. Step5:Install the upper housing Make sure the housing is well installed.[...]

-12- Step6:Fasten cables by the black ring. Move and fasten cables to the hole with that black ring.[...]

Installation -13- Step7:Install POE Injector DC:Insert power adapter POE:this hole is linked to Outdoor AP with RJ-45 LAN:this hole is linked to Hub/router/ADSL modem devices with RJ-45 Condition 1: POE link to LAN1 Port, LAN link to router devices or PC / Notebook 's LAN port. to setup the GUI. Condition 2: POE link to WAN Port, LAN link to X[...]

-14- Step7:Complete diagram[...]

Installation -15- 1.2 Software Installation There are no software drivers, patches or utilities installation needed, but only the configuration setting. Notice: It will take about 50 seconds to complete the boot up sequence after powered on the WLAN Broadband Router; Power LED will be active, and after that the WLAN Activity LED will be flashing to[...]

-16- The device has three operation modes (Gateway/Bridge/WISP). The default IP addresses for the device are 192.168.1.254, so you need to make sure the IP address of your PC is in the same subnet as the device, such as 192.168.1.X. 2.1 Prepare your PC to configure the WLAN Broadband Router For OS of Microsoft Windows 2000/ XP: 1. Click the Start b[...]

Software configuration -17- connect the Wireless LAN Access Point. u IP Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 8. Click OK and reboot your PC after completes the IP parameters setting. For OS of Microsoft Windows NT: 1. Click the Start button and select Settings, then click Control Panel . The Control Panel window will appear. 2. Move mouse and double-click th[...]

-18- 2.3 Management and configuration on the WLAN Broadband Router 2.3.1 Status This page shows the current status and some basic settings of the device, includes system, wireless, Ethernet LAN and WAN configuration information. Item Description System Uptime It shows the duration since WLAN AP Router is powered on. Firmware version It shows the fi[...]

Software configuration -19- Band It shows the current wireless operating frequency. SSID It shows the SSID of this WLAN AP Router. The SSID is the unique name of WLAN AP Router and shared among its service area, so all device sat tempts to join the same wireless network can identify it. Channel Number It shows the wireless channel connected current[...]

-20- 2.3.2 Setup Wizard This page guides you to configure wireless broadband router for first time. I. Operation Mode This page followed by Setup Wizard page to define the operation mode.[...]

Software configuration -21- II. Time Zone Setting This page is used to enable and configure NTP client. III. LAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure local area network IP address and subnet mask. IV. WAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure WAN access type.[...]

-22- V. Wireless Basic Settings This page is used to configure basic wireless parameters like Band, Mode, Network Type SSID, Channel Number, Enable Mac Clone(Single Ethernet Client). VI. Wireless Security Setup This page is used to configure wireless security.[...]

Software configuration -23-[...]

-24- 2.3.3 Operation Mode This page is used to configure which mode wireless broadband router acts. Item Description Gateway Traditional gateway configuration. It always connects internet via ADSL/Cable Modem. LAN interface, WAN interface, Wireless interface, NAT and Firewall modules are applied to this mode Bridge Each interface (LAN, WAN and Wire[...]

Software configuration -25- Item Description Disable Wireless LAN Interface Click on to disable the wireless LAN data transmission. Band Click to select 2.4GHz(B) / 2.4GHz(G) / 2.4GHz(B+G) Mode Click to select the WLAN AP / Client / WDS / AP +WDS wireless mode. Network Type While Mode is selected to be Client. Click to select the network type infra[...]

-26- Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. 2.3.5 Wireless - Advanced Settings These settings are only for more technically advanced users who have a sufficient knowledge about wireless LAN. These settings sh[...]

Software configuration -27- RTS Threshold Set the RTS Threshold, value can be written between 0 and 2347 bytes. Beacon Interval Set the Beacon Interval, value can be written between 20 and 1024 ms. Data Rate Select the transmission data rate from pull-down menu. Data rate can be auto-select, 11M, 5.5M, 2M or 1Mbps. Preamble Type Click to select the[...]

-28- 2.3.6 Wireless - Security Setup This page allows you setup the wireless security. Turn on WEP, WPA, WPA2 by using encryption keys could prevent any unauthorized access to your wireless network. Item Description Encryption Select the encryption supported over wireless access. The encryption method can be None, WEP, WPA, WPA2 or WPA-Mixed. Use 8[...]

Software configuration -29- Pre-Shared Key Fill in the key value. [WPA, Personal(Pre-Shared Key) only] Enable Pre-Authentication Click to enable Pre-Authentication. [WPA2/WPA2 Mixed only, Enterprise only] Authentication RADIUS Server Set the IP address, port and login password information of authentication RADIUS sever. Apply Changes Click the Appl[...]

-30- WEP encryption key (secret key) length: Format Length 64-bit 128-bit ASCII 5 characters 13 characters HEX 10 hexadecimal codes 26 hexadecimal codes WEP Key Setup Item Description Key Length Select the WEP shared secret key length from pull-down menu. The length can be chose between 64-bit and 128-bit (known as "WEP2") keys. The WEP k[...]

Software configuration -31- Encryption Key 3 Secret key 3 of WEP security encryption function. Encryption Key 4 Secret key 4 of WEP security encryption function. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Close Click to close this WEP Key setup window. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and rec[...]

-32- Comment Fill in the comment tag for the registered client. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. Current Access Control List It shows the registered clients that are allowed to link to this WLAN Broadba[...]

Software configuration -33- Comment Fill in the comment tag for the registered AP. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. Set Security Click button to configure wireless security like WEP(64bits), WEP(128bits[...]

-34- 2.3.8.2 WDS AP Table This page is used to show WDS statistics. Item Description MAC Address It shows the MAC Address within WDS. Tx Packets It shows the statistic count of sent packets on the wireless LAN interface. Tx Errors It shows the statistic count of error sent packets on the Wireless LAN interface. Rx Packets It shows the statistic cou[...]

Software configuration -35- 2.3.9 Site Survey This page is used to view or configure other APs near yours. Item Description SSID It shows the SSID of AP. BSSID It shows BSSID of AP. Channel It show the current channel of AP occupied. Type It show which type AP acts. Encrypt It shows the encryption status. Signal It shows the power level of current [...]

-36- Item Description IP Address Fill in the IP address of LAN interfaces of this WLAN Access Point. Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask of LAN interfaces of this WLAN Access Point. Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for LAN interfaces out going data packets. DHCP Click to select Disabled , Client or Server in different operation mode of w[...]

Software configuration -37- 802.1d Spanning Tree Select enable or disable the IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree function from pull-down menu. Clone MAC Address Fill in the MAC address that is the MAC address to be cloned Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and [...]

-38- 2.3.11.1 Static IP Item Description Static IP Click to select Static IP support on WAN interface. There are IP address, subnet mask and default gateway settings need to be done. IP Address If you select the Static IP support on WAN interface, fill in the IP address for it. Subnet Mask If you select the Static IP support on WAN interface, fill [...]

Software configuration -39- MTU Size Fill in the mtu size of MTU Size. The default value is 1400. DNS 1 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 1. DNS 2 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 2. DNS 3 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 3. Clone MAC Address Fill in the MAC address that is the MAC address to be cloned. Enable uPN[...]

-40- 2.3.11.2 DHCP Client Item Description DHCP Client Click to select DHCP support on WAN interface for IP address assigned automatically from a DHCP server. Host Name Fill in the host name of Host Name. The default value is empty. MTU Size Fill in the mtu size of MTU Size. The default value is 1400. Attain DNS Automatically Click to select gettin[...]

Software configuration -41- Set DNS Manually Click to select getting DNS address for DHCP support. DNS 1 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 1. DNS 2 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 2. DNS 3 Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 3. Clone MAC Address Fill in the MAC address that is the MAC address to be cloned. Enable uP[...]

-42- 2.3.11.3 PPPoE Item Description PPPoE Click to select PPPoE support on WAN interface. There are user name, password, connection type and idle time settings need to be done. User Name If you select the PPPoE support on WAN[...]

Software configuration -43- interface, fill in the user name and password to login the PPPoE server. Password If you select the PPPoE support on WAN interface, fill in the user name and password to login the PPPoE server. Service Name Fill in the service name of Service Name. The default value is empty. Connection Type Select the connection type fr[...]

-44- Enable uPNP Click the checkbox to enable uPNP function. Enable Ping Access on WAN Click the checkbox to enable WAN ICMP response. Enable Web Server Access on WAN Click the checkbox to enable web configuration from WAN side. Enable IPsec pass through on VPN connection Click the checkbox to enable IPSec packet pass through. Enable PPTP pass thro[...]

Software configuration -45- 2.3.11.4 PPTP Enter topic text here. Item Description PPTP Allow user to make a tunnel with remote site[...]

-46- directly to secure the data transmission among the connection. User can use embedded PPTP client supported by this router to make a VPN connection. Enable Dynamic Mode Click to select PPTP Dynamic support on WAN interface for IP address assigned automatically from a PPTP server. IP Address If you select the PPTP support on WAN interface, fill [...]

Software configuration -47- response. Enable Web Server Access on WAN Click the checkbox to enable web configuration from WAN side. Enable IPsec pass through on VPN connection Click the checkbox to enable IPSec packet pass through. Enable PPTP pass through on VPN connection Click the checkbox to enable PPTP packet pass through. Enable L2TP pass thr[...]

-48- Enable Port Filtering Click to enable the port filtering security function. Port Range Protocol Comments To restrict data transmission from the local network on certain ports, fill in the range of start-port and end- port, and the protocol, also put your comments on it. The Protocol can be TCP, UDP or Both. Comments let you know about whys to [...]

Software configuration -49- Enable IP Filtering Click to enable the IP filtering security function. Local IP Address Protocol Comments To restrict data transmission from local network on certain IP addresses, fill in the IP address and the protocol, also put your comments on it. The Protocol can be TCP, UDP or Both. Comments let you know about whys[...]

-50- MAC Address Comments To restrict data transmission from local network on certain MAC addresses, fill in the MAC address and your comments on it. Comments let you know about whys to restrict data from the MAC address. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to register the MAC address to MAC filtering list. Reset Click the Reset button to [...]

Software configuration -51- Enable Port Forwarding Click to enable the Port Forwarding security function. Local IP Address Protocol Port Range Comment To forward data packets coming from WAN to a specific IP address that hosted in local network behind the NAT firewall, fill in the IP address, protocol, port range and your comments. The Protocol can[...]

-52- Item Description Enable URL Filtering Click to enable the URL Filtering function. URL Address Add one URL address. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to save settings. Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. Delete Selected Click to delete the selected URL address that will be remo[...]

Software configuration -53- 2.3.18 Management - Statistics This page shows the packet counters for transmission and reception regarding to wireless, Ethernet LAN and Ethernet WAN networks. Item Description Wireless LAN Sent Packets It shows the statistic count of sent packets on the wireless LAN interface. Received Packets It shows the statistic co[...]

-54- 2.3.19 Management - DDNS This page is used to configure Dynamic DNS service to have DNS with dynamic IP address. Item Description Enable DDNS Click the checkbox to enable DDNS service. Service Provider Click the drop down menu to pickup the right provider. Domain Name To configure the Domain Name. User Name/Email Configure User Name, Email. Pa[...]

Software configuration -55- 2.3.20 Management - Time Zone Setting Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting. Item Description Current Time It shows the current time. Time Zone Select Click the time zone in your country. Enable NTP client update Click the checkbox to enable NTP client update. NTP Server Cl[...]

-56- 2.3.21 Management - Denial-of-Service This page is used to enable and setup protection to prevent attack by hacker’s program. It provides more security for users. Item Description Enable DoS Prevention Click the checkbox to enable DoS prevention.[...]

Software configuration -57- Whole System Flood / Per-Source IP Flood… Enable and setup prevention in details. Select ALL Click the checkbox to enable all prevention items. Clear ALL Click the checkbox to disable all prevention items. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to save above settings. 2.3.22 Management - WatchDog Setting Use ping[...]

-58- Item Description Enable/Disable QoS You can check Enable QoS to enable QoS function for the WAN port. You also can uncheck Enable QoS to disable QoS function for the WAN port. ISP Bandwidth The two fields must fill in ISP’s upload and download bandwidth. Undefined IP Bandwidth For general IP address, the specified upload and download bandwid[...]

Software configuration -59- Bandwidth You can assign the download or upload bandwidth by the unit of Kbps (1024 bit per second). You can limit the maximum bandwidth consumed by this rule by selecting “Maximum”. You also can reserve enough bandwidth for this rule by selecting "Guarantee". Local IP Address (from/to) Enter the local IP a[...]

-60- Item Description Enable Log Click the checkbox to enable log. System all Show all log of wireless broadband router. Wireless Only show wireless log DoS Only show Denial-of-Service log Enable Remote Log Click the checkbox to enable remote log service. Log Server IP Address Input the remote log IP address. Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes b[...]

Software configuration -61- 2.3.26 Management - Save/ Reload Settings This page allows you save current settings to a file or reload the settings from the file that was saved previously. Besides, you could reset the current configuration to factory default. Item Description Save Settings to File Click the Save button to download the configuration p[...]

-62- New Password Fill in the password for web management login control. Confirmed Password Because the password input is invisible, so please fill in the password again for confirmation purpose. Apply Changes Clear the User Name and Password fields to empty, means to apply no web management login control. Click the Apply Changes button to complete[...]

Software configuration -63- Ping fail 2. The wireless client cannot access the Internet in the Infrastructure mode. Make sure the wireless client is associated and joined with the correct access point (Access Point). To check this connection: Right-click on the Local Area Connection icon in the taskbar> select View Available Wireless Networks. T[...]

-64- correct available network, as shown in the illustrations below. Note: Screen shots were taken using Windows XP. Your screens may differ. · Check that the IP address assigned to the wireless adapter is within the same IP address range as the access point and gateway. Since the Access Point has an IP address of 192.168.1.254 , wireless adapters[...]

Software configuration -65- · Select the Hardware Tab · Click Device Manager[...]

-66- · Double-click on Network Adapters · Right-click on Realtek RTL8187 Wireless Adapter (or whatever network adapter you are using) · Select Properties to check that the drivers are installed properly[...]

Software configuration -67- · Look under Device Status to check that the device is working properly. · Click OK[...]

-68- 3 Troubleshooting This chapter provides solutions to problems that can occur during the installation and operation of the Access Point. We cover various aspects of the network including network adapters. (The examples below are illustrated in Windows XP. If you have another operating system, these solutions will still apply, although the appea[...]

Troubleshooting -69- Ping fail 2. The wireless client cannot access the Internet in the Infrastructure mode. Make sure the wireless client is associated and joined with the correct access point (Access Point). To check this connection: Right-click on the Local Area Connection icon in the taskbar> select View Available Wireless Networks.[...]

-70- The Connect to Wireless Network screen will appear. Please make sure you have selected the correct available network, as shown in the illustrations below. Note: Screen shots were taken using Windows XP. Your screens may differ. · Check that the IP address assigned to the wireless adapter is within the same IP address range as the access point[...]

Troubleshooting -71- · Select the Hardware Tab · Click Device Manager[...]

-72- · Double-click on Network Adapters · Right-click on Realtek RTL8187 Wireless Adapter (or whatever network adapter you are using) · Select Properties to check that the drivers are installed properly[...]

Troubleshooting -73- · Look under Device Status to check that the device is working properly. · Click OK[...]

-74- 4 Terminology 3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard AES Advanced Encryption Standard ANSI American National Standards Institute AP Access Point CCK Complementary Code Keying CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection DDNS Dynamic Domain Name Server DH Diffie-Hellman Algori[...]

Terminology -75- IKE Internet Key Exchange IP Internet Protocol ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical LAN Local Area Network MAC Media Access Control MD5 Message Digest 5 NAT Network Address Translation NT Network Termination NTP Network Time Protocol PPTP Point to Point Tunneling Protocol PSD Power Spectral Density RF Radio Frequency SHA1 Secure [...]

-76- 5 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) Enter topic text here. 5.1 What and how to find my PC’s IP and MAC address? IP address is the identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network. Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages based on the IP address of the destination. The format of an IP address is a 32-bit numeric address written[...]

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) -77- Example 1: wireless Infrastructure Mode Ad hoc mode (also called peer-to-peer mode or an Independent Basic Service Set, or IBSS) is simply a set of 802.11 wireless stations that communicate directly with one another without using an access point or any connection to a wired network. This mode is useful for quic[...]

-78- u Position the WLAN antenna for best reception. u Keep WLAN devices away from other electrical devices, eg: microwaves, monitors, electric motors, … etc. u Add additional WLAN Access Points if necessary. 5.8 What are the Open System and Shared Key authentications? IEEE 802.11 supports two subtypes of network authentication services: open sys[...]

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) -79- there will be many more collisions. By lowering the RTS threshold, there may be fewer collisions, and performance should improve. Basically, with a faster RTS threshold, the system can recover from problems faster. RTS packets consume valuable bandwidth, however, so setting this value too low will limit perform[...]

-80- 5.17 What is 802.1x Authentication? 802.1x is a framework for authenticated MAC-level access control, defines Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) over LANs (WAPOL). The standard encapsulates and leverages much of EAP, which was defined for dial-up authentication with Point-to-Point Protocol in RFC 2284. Beyond encapsulating EAP packets, t[...]

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) -81- 5.24 What is Clone MAC Address? Clone MAC address is designed for your special application that request the clients to register to a server machine with one identified MAC address. Since that all the clients will communicate outside world through the WLAN Broadband Router, so have the cloned MAC address set on [...]

-82- events. 5.33 What is Frame Aggregation? Every 802.11 packet, no matter how small, has a fixed amount of overhead associated with it. Frame Aggregation combines multiple smaller packets together to form one larger packet. The larger packet can be sent without the overhead of the individual packets. This technique helps improve the efficiency of[...]

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) -83- 6 Configuration examples 6.1 Example one - PPPoE on the WAN Sales division of Company ABC likes to establish a WLAN network to support mobile communication on sales’ Notebook PCs. MIS engineer collects information and plans the WLAN Broadband Router implementation by the following configuration. WAN configura[...]

-84- 2. Configure the LAN interface: Open LAN Interface Setup page, enter the IP Address “192.168.1.254”, Subnet Mask “255.255.255.0”, Default Gateway “0.0.0.0”, enable DHCP Server, DHCP client range “192.168.1.100” to “192.168.1.200”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting.[...]

Configuration examples -85- 3. Configure the WLAN interface: Open WLAN Interface Setup page, enter the SSID “AP”, Channel Number “11”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting.[...]

-86- 6.2 Example two - fixed IP on the WAN Company ABC likes to establish a WLAN network to support mobile communication on all employees’ Notebook PCs. MIS engineer collects information and plans the WLAN Broadband Router implementation by the following configuration. WAN configuration: Fixed IP IP Address 192.168.2.254 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0[...]

Configuration examples -87- Press button to confirm the configuration setting. 2. Configure the LAN interface: Open LAN Interface Setup page, enter the IP Address “ 192.168.1.254 ”, Subnet Mask “ 255.255.255.0 ”, enable DHCP Server, DHCP client range “ 192.168.1.100 ” to “ 192.168.1.200 ”. Press button to confirm the configuration s[...]

-88- 3. Configure the WLAN interface: Open WLAN Interface Setup page, enter the SSID “AP”, Channel Number “11”. Press button to confirm the configuration setting.[...]

Configuration examples -89-[...]