User manual LEVELONE WAP-3100

[. . . ] LevelOne User Manual WAP-3000 / WAP-3100 11g Wireless AP Ver. 1. 0. 1-0804 Safety FCC WARNING This equipment may generate or use radio frequency energy. Changes or modifications to this equipment may cause harmful interference unless the modifications are expressly approved in the instruction manual. The user could lose the authority to operate this equipment if an unauthorized change or modification is made. [. . . ] Configuring the Wireless LAN Access Point The Wireless Access Point has a Web GUI interface for the configuration. The AP can be configured through the Web Browser. A network manager can manage, control and monitor the AP from the local LAN. This section indicates how to configure the AP to enable its functions. Login to the Wireless AP through WLAN Before configuring the Wireless AP through WLAN, make sure that the SSID, Channel and the WEP was set properly. The default setting of the Wireless AP that you will use: SSID: default Channel: 6 Wireless Encryption: disable IP address: 192. 168. 0. 254 Login Before you configure this device, note that when the AP is configured through an Ethernet connection, make sure the manager PC must be set on same the IP network. For example, when the default network address of the default IP address of the AP is 192. 168. 0. 254, then the manager PC should be set at 192. 168. 0. x (where x is a number between 2 and 253), and the default subnet mask is 255. 255. 255. 0. Open Internet Explorer 5. 0 or above Web browser. Enter IP address http://192. 168. 0. 254 (the factory-default IP address setting) to the address location. When there is a screen needs to enter the User name and Password, default Username is "admin" and Password is "password" 6 Main Screen of the Access Point The screen will show the status of the AP when you login to the AP. There are seven main functions included in the top side of the main screen: Wizard, Status, Basic Setting, IP Setting, Advanced Setting, Security and Tools. Point the selections in the top side of the menu screen. 7 Wizard Setup wizard is provided as the part of the web configuration utility. User can select the channel range from 1 to 11 for North America (FCC) domain, 1 to 13 for European (ETSI) domain and 1 to 14 for Japanese domain. SSID: Service Set Identifier, which is a unique name shared among all clients and nodes in a wireless network. The SSID must be identical for each clients and nodes in the wireless network. Authentication Type: The authentication type default is set to Open system. There are six options: Open system; Shared Key; WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, WPA and WPA2. User may want to set to Shared Key when the clients and AP in the same wireless network enable the encryption. All the nodes and hosts on the network must use the same authentication type. WEP Key: To disable WEP security, click on the "Disable" option. To enable WEP security, there are 2 types to select ­ 64bits and 128 bits. When it is selected, the key value must be entered in ASCII or HEX format. Note: When the WEP security is enabled, all the wireless clients that wish to connect to the Access Point must also have WEP enabled with the identical WEP Key value entered. 13 WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK: If WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK is selected, user needs to set the key in the passphrase field as the below screen. The key length should be 8 characters at least. WPA / WPA2: If WPA or WPA2 is selected, the below screen is shown. [. . . ] RTS Threshold: To set the size of RTS/CTS packet size. Fragmentation Threshold: To set the number of bytes used for the fragmentation boundary for directed messages. DTIM Interval: This value indicates the interval of the Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM). A DTIM field is a countdown field informing clients of the next window for listening to broadcast and multicast messages. [. . . ]