Ferimex Wireless 802.11g Multi-mode AP, User Manual

Page 1: ...User s Manual Version 1 1 Wireless 802 11g Multi mode AP ...

Page 2: ...pment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to whi...

Page 3: ...N 6 3 1 PREPARE YOUR PC TO CONFIGURE THE WLAN ACCESS POINT 6 3 2 CONNECT TO THE WLAN ACCESS POINT 8 3 3 MANAGEMENT AND CONFIGURATION ON THE WLAN ACCESS POINT 8 3 3 1 Status 8 3 3 2 Setup Wizard 9 I LAN Interface Setup 10 II Wireless Basic Settings 11 III Wireless Security Setup 12 3 3 3 Wireless Basic Settings 12 3 3 4 Wireless Advanced Settings 14 3 3 5 Wireless Security Setup 15 I WEP Key Setup ...

Page 4: ...FACTORS THAT MAY CAUSES INTERFERENCE 32 4 8 WHAT ARE THE OPEN SYSTEM AND SHARED KEY AUTHENTICATIONS 32 4 9 WHAT IS WEP 32 4 10 WHAT IS FRAGMENT THRESHOLD 32 4 11 WHAT IS RTS REQUEST TO SEND THRESHOLD 33 4 12 WHAT IS BEACON INTERVAL 33 4 13 WHAT IS PREAMBLE TYPE 34 4 14 WHAT IS SSID BROADCAST 34 4 15 WHAT IS WI FI PROTECTED ACCESS WPA 34 4 16 WHAT IS WPA2 35 4 17 WHAT IS 802 1X AUTHENTICATION 35 4 ...

Page 5: ...USER S MANUAL OF WLAN ACCESS POINT Version 1 1 Revision History i DATE REVISION OF USER S MANUAL FIRMWARE 2006 5 19 First release Version 1 0 a1 4 0 ...

Page 6: ...on Protocol ESP Encapsulating Security Payload FCC Federal Communications Commission IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IP Internet Protocol ISM Industrial Scientific and Medical LAN Local Area Network MAC Media Access Control NT Network Termination PSD Power Spectral Density RF Radio Frequency SNR Signal to Noise Ratio SSID Service Set Identification TCP Transmission Control Pr...

Page 7: ...entation CD 1 2 Product Specifications Product Name Wireless 802 11g Multi mode AP Standard 802 11b g Wireless 802 3 10BaseT 802 3u 100BaseT Data Transfer Rate 54Mbps Wireless 100Mbps Ethernet Modulation Method CCK 802 11b OFDM 802 11g Frequency Band 2 4GHz 2 497GJz ISM Band DSSS RF Output Power CCK 17 dBm OFDM 13 5 dBm Receiver Sensitivity 802 11b 80 dBm 8 802 11g 68 dBm 5 Operation Range 30 to 2...

Page 8: ...ntication Support Wi Fi Protected Access Authentication with Radius and Pre Shared Key mode Supports Inter Access Point Protocol IAPP Supports Wireless Distribution System WDS Supports IEEE 802 3x full duplex flow control on 10 100M Ethernet interface Supports DHCP server to provide clients auto IP addresses assignment Supports DHCP client auto IP address assignment from ISP Supports clone MAC add...

Page 9: ... Power LED On The WLAN Access Point is powered on Off The WLAN Access Point is powered off 2 WLAN LED Flashing Data is transmitting or receiving on the antenna Off No data is transmitting or receiving on the antenna 3 LAN LED ACT Flashing Data is transmitting or receiving on the LAN interface On Port linked Off No link 3 Power LED WLAN LED LAN LED ...

Page 10: ...5 V power supply connection The external AC to DC adaptor provide adaptive power requirement to the WLAN Access Point 3 LAN The RJ 45 sockets allow LAN connection through Category 5 cables Support auto sensing on 10 100M speed and half full duplex comply with IEEE 802 3 802 3u respectively 4 Reset Push continually the reset button 5 10 seconds to reset the configuration parameters to factory defau...

Page 11: ... modem A straight through Ethernet cable with appropriate cable length is needed Step 3 Supply DC power to the WLAN Access Point Use only the AC DC power adapter supplied with the WLAN Access Point it may occur damage by using a different type of power adapter The hardware installation finished 2 2 Software Installation There are no software drivers patches or utilities installation needed but onl...

Page 12: ... icon The Network window will appear 3 Check the installed list of Network Components If TCP IP is not installed click the Add button to install it otherwise go to step 6 4 Select Protocol in the Network Component Type dialog box and click Add button 5 Select TCP IP in Microsoft of Select Network Protocol dialog box then click OK button to install the TCP IP protocol it may need the Microsoft Wind...

Page 13: ...to connect the Wireless LAN Access Point 9 IP Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 8 Click OK to 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 the right button on Network icon The Network window will appear Click Protocol tab from the Network window 3 C...

Page 14: ...oint 3 3 Management and configuration on the WLAN Access Point 3 3 1 Status This page shows the current status and some basic settings of the device includes system wireless and Ethernet LAN configuration information Screen snapshot Status 8 Item Description System Uptime It shows the duration since WLAN Access Point is powered on Firmware version It shows the firmware version of WLAN Access Point...

Page 15: ...ed clients or stations PCs BSSID It shows the BSSID address of the WLAN Access Point BSSID is a six byte address Associated Clients It shows total numbers of WLAN clients connected TCP IP Configuration Attain IP Protocol It shows how the WLAN Access Point gets the IP address The IP address can be set manually to a fixed one or set dynamically by DHCP server IP Address It shows the IP address of WA...

Page 16: ... MANUAL OF WLAN ACCESS POINT Version 1 1 Screen snapshot Setup Wizard I LAN Interface Setup This page is used to configure local area network IP address and subnet mask Screen snapshot LAN Interface Setup 10 ...

Page 17: ...OINT Version 1 1 II 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 Screen snapshot Wireless Basic Settings 11 ...

Page 18: ...configure wireless security Screen snapshot Wireless Security Setup 12 3 3 3 Wireless Basic Settings This page is used to configure the parameters for wireless LAN clients that may connect to your Access Point Here you may change wireless encryption settings as well as wireless network parameters ...

Page 19: ...y The Site Survey button provides tool to scan the wireless network If any Access Point or IBSS is found you could choose to connect it manually when client mode is enabled Refer to 3 3 9 Site Survey SSID It is the wireless network name The SSID can be 32 bytes long Channel Number Select the wireless communication channel from pull down menu Associated Clients Click the Show Active Clients button ...

Page 20: ...nables Universal Repeater Mode 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 14 3 3 4 Wireless Advanced Settings These settings are only for more technically advanced users who have a sufficient knowledge about wireless LAN These settings should not be changed unless...

Page 21: ...ble Type Click to select the Long Preamble or Short Preamble support on the wireless data packet transmission Refer to 4 13 What is Preamble Type Broadcast SSID Click to enable or disable the SSID broadcast function Refer to 4 14 What is SSID Broadcast IAPP Click to enable or disable the IAPP function Refer to 4 20 What is Inter Access Point Protocol IAPP 802 11g Protection Protect 802 11b user RF...

Page 22: ...tication 4 18 What is Temporal Key Integrity Protocol TKIP 4 19 What is Advanced Encryption Standard AES Use 802 1x Authentication While Encryption is selected to be WEP Click the check box to enable IEEE 802 1x authentication function Refer to 4 16 What is 802 1x Authentication WPAAuthentication Mode While Encryption is selected to be WPA Click to select the WPAAuthentication Mode with Enterprise...

Page 23: ...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 Apply Changes button to complete the new configuration setting Reset Click the Reset button t...

Page 24: ...security encryption function 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 recover the previous configuration setting WEP encryptio...

Page 25: ... Point access capability Comment Fill in the comment tag for the registered client Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to register the client to 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 Access Point Delete Selected C...

Page 26: ...apshot WDS Setup 20 Item Description Enable WDS Click the check box to enable wireless distribution system Refer to 4 21 What is Wireless Distribution System WDS MAC Address Fill in the MAC address of AP to register the wireless distribution system access capability Comment Fill in the comment tag for the registered AP Apply Changes Click the Apply Changes button to register the AP to new configur...

Page 27: ...m Delete All Click to delete all the registered APs from the wireless distribution system allowed list Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting I WDS Security Setup Requirement Set Wireless Basic Settings Mode AP WDS This page is used to configure the wireless security between APs Refer to 3 3 6 Wireless Security Setup Screen snapshot WDS Security...

Page 28: ...face Tx Errors It shows the statistic count of error sent packets on the Wireless LAN interface Rx Packets It shows the statistic count of received packets on the wireless LAN interface Tx Rare Mbps It shows the wireless link rate within WDS Refresh Click to refresh the statistic counters on the screen Close Click to close the current window 22 3 3 8 Site Survey This page is used to view or config...

Page 29: ...cryption status Signal It shows the power level of current AP Select Click to select AP or client you d like to connect Refresh Click the Refresh button to re scan site survey on the screen Connect Click the Connect button to establish connection 23 3 3 9 TCP IP Settings This page is used to configure the parameters for local area network that connects to the LAN ports of your WLAN Access Point He...

Page 30: ...ut going data packets DHCP Click to select Disabled Client or Server in different operation mode of wireless Access Point DHCP Client Range Fill in the start IP address and end IP address to allocate a range of IP addresses client with DHCP function set will be assigned an IP address from the range Show Client Click to open the Active DHCP Client Table window that shows the active clients with the...

Page 31: ...dress to be cloned Refer to 4 24 What is Clone MAC Address 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 3 3 10 Log This page is used to configure the remote log server and shown the current log Screen snapshot Log 25 Item Description Enable Log System all Wireless o...

Page 32: ... and reception regarding to wireless and Ethernet LAN networks Screen snapshot Statistics Item Description Wireless LAN Sent Packets It shows the statistic count of sent packets on the wireless LAN interface Wireless LAN Received Packets It shows the statistic count of received packets on the wireless LAN interface Ethernet LAN Sent Packets It shows the statistic count of sent packets on the Ether...

Page 33: ...owse button to select the new version of web firmware image file Upload Click the Upload button to update the selected web firmware image to the WLAN Access Point Reset Click the Reset button to abort change and recover the previous configuration setting 3 3 13 Save Reload Settings This page allows you save current settings to a file or reload the settings from the file that was saved previously B...

Page 34: ...t the account to access the web server of Access Point Empty user name and password will disable the protection Screen snapshot Management Password Setup Item Description User Name Fill in the user name for web management login control 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 f...

Page 35: ... is used to logout web management page This item will be activated next time you login after you define user account and password Screen snapshot Logout Screen snapshot Logout OK Item Description Apply Change Click the Apply Change button Then click OK button to logout 29 ...

Page 36: ...n the Command program in the Microsoft Windows 9 Type in ipconfig all then press the Enter button Your PC s IP address is the one entitled IP Address and your PC s MAC address is the one entitled Physical Address 4 2 What is Wireless LAN A wireless LAN WLAN is a network that allows access to Internet without the need for any wired connections to the user s machine 4 3 What are ISM bands ISM stands...

Page 37: ...s mode is useful for quickly and easily setting up a wireless network anywhere that a wireless infrastructure does not exist or is not required for services such as a hotel room convention center or airport or where access to the wired network is barred such as for consultants at a client site Example 2 wireless Ad Hoc Mode 4 5 What is BSSID A six byte address that distinguishes a particular a par...

Page 38: ...identity of the sending station The receiving station then returns a frame that indicates whether it recognizes the sending station Under shared key authentication each wireless station is assumed to have received a secret shared key over a secure channel that is independent from the 802 11 wireless network communications channel 4 9 What is WEP An optional IEEE 802 11 function that offers frame t...

Page 39: ... want to keep this value as close to the maximum value as possible 4 11 What is RTS Request To Send Threshold The RTS threshold is the packet size at which packet transmission is governed by the RTS CTS transaction The IEEE 802 11 1997 standard allows for short packets to be transmitted without RTS CTS transactions Each station can have a different RTS threshold RTS CTS is used when the data packe...

Page 40: ...feature the SSID configured in the client must match the SSID of the access point Some wireless devices don t work properly if SSID isn t broadcast for example the D link DWL 120 USB 802 11b adapter Generally if your client hardware supports operation with SSID disabled it s not a bad idea to run that way to enhance network security However it s no replacement for WEP MAC filtering or other protec...

Page 41: ... pronounced tee kip is part of the IEEE 802 11i encryption standard for wireless LANs TKIP is the next generation of WEP the Wired Equivalency Protocol which is used to secure 802 11 wireless LANs TKIP provides per packet key mixing a message integrity check and a re keying mechanism thus fixing the flaws of WEP 4 19 What is Advanced Encryption Standard AES Security issues are a major concern for ...

Page 42: ...el like the wireless bridge or repeater service 4 22 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 Access Point so have the cloned MAC address set on the WLAN Access Point will solve the issue 36 ...