Linksys Instant Broadband Series, User Manual

Page 1: ...Instant Wireless Series Wireless Network Access Point Use this guide to install WAP11 ver 2 6 User Guide ...

Page 2: ...there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which is found by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equi...

Page 3: ...EC and or the CEPT recommendation Rec 70 03 For more details on legal combinations of power levels and antennas contact Linksys Corporate Compliance Linksys Group vakuuttaa täten että Instant Wireless Network Access Point tyyppinen laite on direktiivin 1999 5 EY direktiivin 89 336 EEC ja direktiivin 73 23 EEC oleellisten vaatimusten ja sitä koskevien näiden direktiivien muiden ehtojen mukainen Lin...

Page 4: ...statistic tools ensure that you ll always be in control The Wireless Access Point is easy to install and easy to use just plug it in and you re ready to go When all of these features come together in one compact lightweight and power efficient unit you have the ultimate in flexible networking the Linksys Wireless Access Point High Speed Data Transfer Rates of up to 11Mbps Interoperable with IEEE 8...

Page 5: ...ed networks wireless networks have two different modes in which they may be set up infrastructure and ad hoc An infrastructure configura tion is a WLAN and wired LAN communicating to each other through an access point An ad hoc configuration is wireless equipped computers com municating directly with each other Choosing between these two modes depends on whether or not the wireless network needs t...

Page 6: ...on for approximately ten seconds or use the Password tab of the Access Point s Web based Utility 4 T Power Red The Power LED lights up when the Access Point is powered on ACT Green If the LED is flickering the Access Point is actively sending or receiving data to or from one of the devices on the wireless network LINK Orange The LINK LED serves two purposes If the LED is continuously lit up the Ac...

Page 7: ...e it in a position which can best cover your wireless network Normally the higher you place the antenna the better the performance will be The antenna s position enhances the receiving sensitivity Both antennas should be perpendicular to the ground and parallel to each other 3 Connect the included Category 5 Ethernet network cable to the Access Point Then connect the other end of the Ethernet cabl...

Page 8: ...ton to continue or No to exit the Setup Wizard 5 On the Enter Network Password screen enter the default password admin in the Password field Then click the OK button For added security remember to change this password later through the Web based Utility s Password screen Figure 5 3 Instant Wireless Series 3 You can configure the Access Point through any PC connected to your Ethernet network Make s...

Page 9: ...th your network settings All points in your wireless network must use the same channel in order to function correctly 11 Instant Wireless Series 6 As shown in Figure 5 5 the IP Settings screen will appear next Enter an IP Address and Subnet Mask appropriate to your network Then enter a unique name in the AP Name field Click the Next button to continue or Back to return to the previous page IP Addr...

Page 10: ...al characters are 0 9 and A F 13 Instant Wireless Series 8 The Security Settings screen Figure 5 7 will appear next From this screen you will set the Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP encryption for your wireless network Select a WEP configuration method and a passphrase Click the Next button to continue or Back to return to the pre vious page WEP Disable 64 bit 10 hex digits 128 bit 26 hex digits In o...

Page 11: ...ress the Enter key and the following screen shown in Figure 6 1 will appear Leave the User Name field blank The first time you open the Web based Utility use the default password admin You can set a new password on the Password screen shown in Figure 6 7 The first screen that appears shown in Figure 6 2 is the Setup tab This allows you to change the Access Point s general settings Change these set...

Page 12: ...EP encryption to use and set the Passphrase for that encryption From the pull down menu at the top of the screen select 64 bit or 128 bit WEP encryption The Mode pull down menu will allow you to set the Passphrase in hexadecimal or ASCII characters Hexadecimal characters on your keyboard are the letters A through F and the numbers 0 through 9 while ASCII characters are any character on your keyboa...

Page 13: ... Access Point you must reset it to Access Point mode The two modes are mutually exclusive Figure 6 5 There are two ways to create WEP encryption keys The first method is by typ ing a Passphrase into that field and clicking the Generate button This will generate WEP encryption keys based upon that passphrase A second method is to manually enter the WEP encryption keys in the available fields Click ...

Page 14: ...n LAN 2 and LAN 3 to Wireless Bridge and have them look for the MAC address of the access point in LAN 1 Only one of the access points must be in Point to MultiPoint mode For all other bridged access points select the Wireless Bridge option and enter the Remote LAN MAC Address of the Access Point set to Point to MultiPoint Backup and Restore Clicking the Backup button will store the Access Point s...

Page 15: ...splayed here Send and Recv The Send and Recv fields display the number of success ful or dropped packets that have been sent or received Some packet loss is normal in wireless networking 23 Instant Wireless Series The Status tab shown in Figure 6 8 will display current information on the Access Point its settings and its performance Firmware Version This displays the current version of the Access ...

Page 16: ... you will need an active Internet connection To download from the CD ROM click the Start but ton and select Run Type D Acrobat if D is the letter of your CD ROM drive 25 Instant Wireless Series To view a log of the Access Point s activity select the Log tab shown in Figure 6 9 To enable permanent logging activity click the Enable radio button beside Access Log The default setting for this function...

Page 17: ... file 6 Click the Upgrade button and follow the on screen instructions Click the Cancel button to cancel the firmware upgrade To access the Filter tab first click the Advanced tab The Filter tab shown in Figure 6 11 allows you to control which computers may or may not commu nicate with the Access Point depending on their MAC addresses To enable filtering of computers by their MAC Addresses click t...

Page 18: ...en the Access Point has buffered broadcast or multicast messages for associated clients it sends the next DTIM with a DTIM Interval value Access Point Clients hear the beacons and awaken to receive the broadcast and multicast messages Basic Rates The basic rate is the minimum speed at which a wireless client is allowed to connect to the Access Point Transmission Rates The transmission rates should...

Page 19: ...ed to be used over a network Consult the application s user guide to determine if it supports oper ation over a network Can I play multiplayer games with other users of the wireless network Yes as long as the game supports multiple players over a LAN local area net work Refer to the game s user guide for more information What is the IEEE 802 11b standard It is one of the IEEE standards for wireles...

Page 20: ... or file sharing What is WEP WEP is Wired Equivalent Privacy a data privacy mechanism based on a 40 64 bit shared key algorithm as described in the IEEE 802 11 standard 33 Instant Wireless Series What is infrastructure mode When a wireless network is set to infrastructure mode the wireless network is configured to communicate with a wired network through a wireless access point What is roaming Roa...

Page 21: ...your computer s network operating system for further assistance Check with your network administrator for your TCP IP settings The directions below provide general guidelines for coming up with IP address es and subnet masks Check with your network administrator to see if you need to use specific IP addresses or DHCP settings First each computer on the network will require an IP address which is a...

Page 22: ...ng instructions are provided as examples for reference only For complete instructions on installing and troubleshooting TCP IP consult your Windows operating system documentation 1 Click the Start button and select Settings Open the Control Panel Inside the Control Panel double click the Network icon 2 If the TCP IP Protocol is listed for your network adapter go to step five Otherwise click the Ad...

Page 23: ...basis communicating directly with each other without the use of an access point Ad hoc mode is also referred to as an Independent Basic Service Set IBSS or as peer to peer mode and is useful at a departmental scale or SOHO operation Backbone The part of a network that connects most of the systems and net works together and handles the most data Bandwidth The transmission capacity of a given facili...

Page 24: ...buffer and the algorithms for moving data into and out of the buffer need to be considered by the buffer designer Like a cache a buffer is a midpoint holding place but exists not so much to accelerate the speed of an activity as to sup port the coordination of separate activities CSMA CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access Collision Avoidance In local area networking this is the CSMA technique that comb...

Page 25: ...ce such as a network adapter that allows the network to identify it at the hardware level Mbps MegaBits Per Second One million bits per second unit of measure ment for data transmission Multicasting Sending data to a group of nodes instead of a single destination 10 Mbps Forms the underlying transport vehicle used by several upper level protocols including TCP IP and XNS FHSS Frequency Hopping Spr...

Page 26: ...mber of devices to share a limited number of ports 2 A device for making breaking or changing the connections in an electrical cir cuit TCP Transmission Control Protocol A method protocol used along with the IP Internet Protocol to send data in the form of message units datagram 45 Instant Wireless Series Network A system that transmits any combination of voice video and or data between users Node...

Page 27: ...ly TCP and IP Throughput The amount of data moved successfully from one place to anoth er in a given time period Topology A network s topology is a logical characterization of how the devices on the network are connected and the distances between them The most common network devices include hubs switches routers and gateways Most large networks contain several levels of interconnection the most im...

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