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    Instant Wireless TM Series Wireless Access Point Use this guide to install: W AP54A User Guide[...]

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    COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS Copyright © 2002 Linksys, All Rights Reserved. Instant Wir eless™ is a r egistered trade- mark of Linksys. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo ar e registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and brand names ar e the pr operty of their respective pr oprietors. LIMITED W ARRANTY Linksys gua[...]

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    Wireless Access Point Chapter 1: Introduction The Instant Wireless TM Wir eless Access Point Don’ t be bound b y cabling restrictions an y longer! The Instant W ireless™ W ireless Access P oint from Linksys deli v ers the freedom to conf igure your net- w ork your w a y . Utilization of “state-of-the-art” wireless technology gi ves y ou the[...]

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    Wireless Access Point 3 Chapter 2: Planning Y our Wireless Network A wireless LAN is a group of computers, each equipped with one Instant W ireless™ Series adapter . Computers in a wireless LAN must be conf igured to share the same radio channel. The Instant W ireless™ Series adapters pro vide access to a wired LAN for wire- less w orkstations.[...]

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    Wireless Access Point Instant Wireless TM Series Chapter 3: Getting to Know the Wireless Access Point The Access P oint’ s por ts, where a netw ork cab le is connected , are located on the Access P oint’ s rear panel, as sho wn in Figure 3-1. LAN This LAN (Local Area Netw ork) por t connects to Ethernet network de vices, such as a hub, s witch,[...]

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    7 Instant Wireless TM Series Chapter 5: Configuring the Wireless Access Point The Access P oint has been designed to be functional right out of the box, with its default settings. Ho w ev er , if you’ d like to change these settings, the Access P oint can be conf igured through y our w eb browser with the W eb-Based Utility . This chapter explain[...]

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    • Wir eless: • T urbo Mode. Click this button to increase the speed of your wireless trans- missions (it will change from Off to On ), keeping in mind that the Access P oint’ s range diminishes in T urbo Mode. • SSID. The SSID is the unique name shared among all points in a wireless netw ork. The SSID must be identical for all points in the[...]

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    Wireless Network Access Point The “Status” tab, sho wn in Figure 5-5, will displa y the Access P oint’ s cur rent MA C address and state as w ell as the state and MA C Address of each wireless point on your netw ork associ- ated with it. F or more informa- tion on any de vice listed , simply click the MA C Address of that device and another s[...]

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    Before making any changes to the Advanced tab, sho wn in Figure 5-9, please check your wireless settings on other systems, as these changes will alter the ef fectiv eness of the Access P oint. In most cases, these settings do not need to be changed. • Beacon Interv al. This value betw een 20 and 1000, indicates the frequen- cy interval of the bea[...]

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    Wireless Network Access Point The follo wing r esour ces r equir e an Internet connection in or der to access them. Click the Linksys W ebsite link to connect to the Linksys homepage for Kno wledgebase help f iles and information about other Linksys products. F or an Online Man ual in PDF f ormat , click that text link. The manual will appear in Ad[...]

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    make sure that it is the same channel number as the Access Point of the dedi- cated co verage area. T o achiev e true seamless connectivity , the wireless LAN must incorporate a number of different functions. Each node and Access P oint, for example, must al w a ys ackno wledge receipt of each message. Each node must maintain contact with the wirel[...]

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    19 Instant Wireless™ Series tuned to the right frequency , a spread-spectrum signal looks like background noise. There are tw o main alternativ es, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) and Frequenc y Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS). What is DSSS? What is FHSS? And what ar e their differ ences? Frequenc y Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) uses a nar[...]

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    Wireless Network Access Point Appendix B: Setting Up the TCP/IP Protocol Before a computer can communicate with the Access P oint, it must be conf ig- ured with the TCP/IP protocol. If y ou kno w ho w to set up TCP/IP on y our com- puters, do so no w . Otherwise, use the guidelines belo w to help get TCP/IP installed on all of the computers that ne[...]

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    Wireless Network Access Point 12. When the Netw ork windo w reappears, click the Close button. Restart your computer when prompted. TCP/IP has no w been successfully installed. 1. At the W indo ws 2000 desktop, right click My Netw or k Places and select Pr operties . Then, right click Local Ar ea Connection . Choose Pr operties . 2. If the TCP/IP P[...]

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    Instant Wireless TM Series Buffer - A buf fer is a shared or assigned memory area used by hardw are devices or pro gram processes that operate at different speeds or with dif ferent sets of priorities. The buf fer allo ws each de vice or process to operate without being held up by the other . In order for a buffer to be ef fecti ve, the size of the[...]

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    Instant Wireless TM Series ESS - More than one BSS in a netw ork. Ethernet - IEEE standard netw ork protocol that specif ies ho w data is placed on and retriev ed from a common transmission medium. Has a transfer rate of 10 Mbps. F orms the underlying transport vehicle used b y se veral upper -lev el protocols, including TCP/IP and XNS. FHSS ( F re[...]

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    Wireless Network Access Point Netw ork - A system that transmits any combination of v oice, video and/or data betw een users. Node - A netw ork junction or connection point, typically a computer or w ork station. OFDM - OFDM (Orthogonal F requency Di vision Muliplexing) w orks b y breaking one high-speed data stream into a number of lo w er-speed d[...]

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    Wireless Network Access Point actual deliv ery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping track of the indi vidual units of data (called packet) that a message is di vided into for eff icient routing through the Internet. TCP/IP ( T ransmission C ontrol P rotocol/ I nternet P rotocol) - The basic com- munication language or protocol of the Internet. It[...]

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    33 Wireless Access Point Appendix E: W arranty Information BE SURE T O HA VE Y OUR PR OOF OF PURCHASE AND A B ARCODE FR OM THE PR ODUCT’S P A CKA GING ON HAND WHEN CALLING. RETURN REQUESTS CANNO T BE PR OCESSED WITHOUT PR OOF OF PURCHASE. IN NO EVENT SHALL LINKSYS’S LIABILITY EXCEED THE PRICE P AID FOR THE PR ODUCT FR OM DIRECT , INDIRECT , SPE[...]

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    Appendix F: Contact Information F or help with the installation or operation of this product, contact Linksys T echnical Support at one of the phone numbers or Internet addresses below . Sales Information 800-546-5797 (LINKSYS) T echnical Support 866-242-8558 RMA Issues 949-261-1288 Fa x 949-261-8868 Email support@linksys.com We b http://www .links[...]

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    © Copyright 2002 Linksys, All Rights Reser ved. http://www .linksys.com[...]