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300Mbp s Wir eles s -N A c ce ss P oint /R epeat er SMCWEBS -N USER GUIDE[...]
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20 Mason Irvine, CA 92618 Phone: (949) 679-8000 SMCWEBS-N User Guide January 2010 Pub. # 149100000065W E012010- AP-R01[...]
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Information furnished by SMC Netw orks, Inc. (SMC) is believ ed to be accur ate and reliable. However , no responsibility is assumed by SMC for its use, nor for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which ma y result from its use. No li cense is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of SMC. SM[...]
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– 4 – W ARRANTY AND P RODUCT R EGISTRATION T o regi ster SMC products and to revi ew the detail ed warr anty statement, please refer to the Support Section of the SMC W ebsite at http:/ / www .smc.com.[...]
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– 5 – C OMPLIANCES F EDERAL C OMMUNICATION C OMMISSION I NTERFERENCE S TA T EM EN T This equipment has been tested and found to comply wi th the limits for a Class B digital device, p ursuant to P art 15 of the FCC R ules. These limits are designed to provi de reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential install ation. Th[...]
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C OMPLIANCES – 6 – IC S TA TE M EN T This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: ( 1) this device may not cause interference, an d (2) this device mu st accept any interferen ce, including interference that ma y caus e undesired operation of the devi ce. Cet appareil num?[...]
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C OMPLIANCES – 7 – This device is intended for use in the followi ng Europe an Communit y and EFT A countries: N OTE : The user must use the configurat ion utility provided wi th this product to ensure the channels of op eration are in conformance with the spectrum usage rules for European Communit y countries as described below . ◆ This devi[...]
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C OMPLIANCES – 8 – German Deutsch Hiermit erklärt Manufacturer, dass sich dieser/diese/dieses Radio LAN device in Übereinstimmung mit den grundlegenden Anforderungen und den anderen relevanten Vorschriften der Richtlinie 1999/5/EG befindet". (BMWi) Hiermit erklärt Manufacturer die Übere ins timmung des Gerätes Radio LAN device mit den[...]
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– 9 – A BOUT T HIS G UIDE P URPOSE This guid e gives specific info rmation on how to insta ll the Wireless-N Access P oint/R epeater and its physical and performance related characteristics. It also gives i nformation on how to oper ate and use the management functions of t he Wireless-N Access P o i nt/Repeater . A UDIENCE This guide is for us[...]
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– 10 – C ONTENT S W ARRANTY AND P RODUCT R EGISTRATION 4 C OMPLIANCES 5 A BOUT T HIS G UIDE 9 C ONTENTS 10 F IGURES 13 T ABLES 15 S ECTION I G ETTING S TARTED 16 1I NTRODUCTION 17 Key Hardware Features 17 Description of Capabilities 17 Package Contents 18 Hardware Description 18 LED Indicators 19 Ethernet LAN Ports 20 Power Connector 20 Reset B[...]
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C ONTENT S – 11 – Mounting on a Horizontal Surface 25 4I NITIAL C ONFIGURATI ON 26 Connecting to the Login Page 26 Home Page and Main Menu 27 Common Web P age Buttons 28 Setup Wizard 28 Step 1 - Language Sel ection 28 Step 2 - Ti me Settings 29 Step 3 - Wirel ess Security 29 Completion 30 S ECTION II W EB C ONFIGURATION 31 5N ETWORK S ETTIN GS [...]
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C ONTENT S – 12 – System Status 61 Statistics 62 System Log 63 S ECTION III A PPENDICES 65 AT ROUBLESHOOTING 66 Diagnosing LED Indicators 66 Before Contacting Tech nical Support 66 BH ARDWARE S PECIF ICATIONS 68 CC ABLES AND P INOUTS 70 Twisted-Pair Cable Assignments 70 10/100BASE-TX Pin Assignments 71 Straight-Throug h Wiring 71 Crossover Wiri[...]
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– 13 – F IGURES Figure 1: Top Panel 18 Figure 2: Rear Panel 19 Figure 3: LEDs 19 Figure 4: Operating as an Access Point 21 Figure 5: Operating as a Wireless Brid ge 22 Figure 6: Operating as a Wireless R epeater 22 Figure 7: Wall Mounting 24 Figure 8: Login Page 27 Figure 9: Home Page 27 Figure 10: Wizard Step 1 - Language Selection 28 Figure 1[...]
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F IGURES – 14 – Figure 32: System Management 57 Figure 33: Time Zone Settings 58 Figure 34: Firmware Upgrade 59 Figure 35: Configuration Settings 60 Figure 36: System Status 61 Figure 37: Statistics 62 Figure 38: System Log 63 Figure 39: RJ-45 Connector 70 Figure 40: Straight-through Wiring 72 Figure 41: Crossover Wiring 72[...]
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– 15 – T ABLES Table 1: Key Hardware Features 17 Table 2: LED Behavior 19 Table 3: WMM Access Categories 41 Table 4: LED Indicators 66 Table 5: 10/100BASE-TX MDI and MDI-X Port Pinouts 71[...]
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– 16 – S ECTION I G ETTING S T ARTED This section provides an ov erview of the Wireless-N A ccess Point /Repeater , and describes how to install and mount the unit. It also des cribes the basic settings required to access the mana gement interface and run the setup Wizard. This section includes these chapters: ◆ “Introduction” on page 17 [...]
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– 17 – 1 I NTRODUCTION The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeat er (SMCWEBS-N) supports an access point service that extends a local wired network to wireless clients. It is simple to configure and can be up and running in minutes. K EY H ARDWA RE F EATURES The following table describes the main hardware features of the Access Poi n t/ Rep ea te r .[...]
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C HAPTER 1 | Introduction Package Contents – 18 – P ACKAGE C ONTENT S The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater package includes: ◆ Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater (SMCWEBS-N) ◆ RJ-45 Category 5 network cable ◆ AC power adapter ◆ SMC W arranty Information Card ◆ Quick Installation Guide Inform your dealer if there are any in correct, mi[...]
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C HAPTER 1 | Introduction Hardware Description – 19 – Figure 2: Rear Panel LED I ND ICATORS The Wireless-N Access Point /Repeater includes seven status LED indicators, as described i n th e followi ng figure and table. Figure 3: LEDs Table 2: LED Behavior LED Status Description Power On Blue The unit is receiving power and is ope rating normall[...]
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C HAPTER 1 | Introduction Hardware Description – 20 – E THERNET LAN P ORT S The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater has four 100BASE- TX RJ-45 ports that can be attached directly to 10BASE- T/100BASE- TX LAN segments. These port support automatic MDI/MDI - X operation, so you can use straight -through cables for all network connections to PCs, sw[...]
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– 21 – 2 N ETWORK P LANNING The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater is desi gned as an access point that extends an existing wired network to support wi reless users. It also supports us e as a wireless r epeater/bridg e that can extend the ran ge of the network or connect to remote LANs. This chapter explains some of the ba si c features of the [...]
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C HAPTER 2 | Network Planning Wireless Bridge – 22 – W IRELESS B RIDGE The IEEE 802.11 standard defines a Wireless Distribution S ystem (WDS) for bridge connections between a ccess points. The Wirel ess-N Access P oint/Repeater can use WDS t o forward tr affic on links between uni ts. Up to four WDS links can be sp ecified for the Wireless-N Ac[...]
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– 23 – 3 I NST ALLING THE A CCESS P OINT / R EPEATER This chapter describes how to install the access point. S YSTEM R EQUIREMENT S Y ou must meet the followi ng minimum requirements: ◆ An Internet access device (DSL or Ca ble modem) with an Ethernet port connection. ◆ An up-to-date web browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 or above or Mozilla Fir[...]
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C HAPTER 3 | Installing the Access Point/Repeater Mounting the Device – 24 – M OUNTING THE D EVICE The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater can be mounted on an y horizontal surface, or on a wall. The following sections desc ribe the mounting options. M OUNTING ON A W ALL The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater should be mounted only to a wall or wo[...]
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C HAPTER 3 | Installing the Access Point/Repeater Mounting the Device – 25 – M OUNTING ON A H ORIZONTAL S URFACE T o k eep the Wireless-N Access Point/R epeater from sliding on the surface, the Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater ha s fo ur rubber feet on the bottom of the unit. It is recommended to select an unclut tered area on a sturdy surface[...]
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– 26 – 4 I NITIAL C ONFIGURATION The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeat erWireless-N Access P oint/Repeater offers a user-friendly web-based management interface for the configurati on of all the unit’ s features. Any PC directly attached to the unit can access the management interface using a web browser , such as Internet Explorer (version 6.0[...]
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C HAPTER 4 | Initial Configuration Home Page and Main Menu – 27 – Figure 8: Login Page H OME P AGE AND M AIN M ENU After logging in to the web interfac e, the Home page displays. The Home page shows the main menu and the method to access the Setup Wizard. Figure 9: Home Page[...]
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C HAPTER 4 | Initial Configuration Common Web Page Buttons – 28 – C OMMON W EB P AGE B UTTONS The list below describes the common buttons found on most web management pages: ◆ Apply – Applies the new par ameters and saves them to memory . Also displays a screen to inform you when it has taken affect. Clicking ‘ Apply’ returns to the hom[...]
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C HAPTER 4 | Initial Configuration Setup Wizard – 29 – S TEP 2 - T IME S ETTINGS The Step 2 pa ge of the Wizard config ures time zone and SN TP settings. Select a time zone according to wher e the device is operated. Click Next after completing the setup. Figure 11: Wizard Ste p 2 - Time and SNTP Settings The following items are displa yed on t[...]
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C HAPTER 4 | Initial Configuration Setup Wizard – 30 – The following items are displa yed on this page: ◆ SSID Choice — The name of the wireless network service provided by the Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater . Clients that want to connect t o the network must set their SSID to the same as that of the Wireless-N Access Point/Repeater . (D[...]
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– 31 – S ECTION II W EB C ONFIGURATION This section pro vides details on c o nfiguring the Wireless-N Access P oint/ Repeater using t he web browser interface. This section includes these chapters: ◆ “Network Settings” on page 32 ◆ “Wireless Conf igur ation” on pa ge 34 ◆ “ Administration Settings” on page 57[...]
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– 32 – 5 N ETWORK S ETTINGS The Network Settings pages allow y ou to manage basic system configur ation settings . LAN S ETTING The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater must hav e a vali d IP address for management using a web browser and to support other features. The unit has a default IP address of 192.168.2.10. Y ou can use this IP address or [...]
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C HAPTER 5 | Network Settings LAN Setting – 33 – ◆ MAC Address — The shared ph ysical lay er address for the Wireless -N Access P oin t/R epeater ’ s LAN ports. ◆ Hostname — The hostname of the ST A TIC or DHCP cli ent. ◆ IP Address — V alid IP addresses consist of four deci mal numbers, 0 to 255, separa ted by periods. The defaul[...]
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– 34 – 6 W IRELESS C ONFIGURATION The wireless settings section displays configur ation settings for the access point functionality of the Wireless-N Access P oint/R epeater . It includes the following sections: ◆ “Basic Settings” on page 34 ◆ “ Advanced Settings ” on page 38 ◆ “WLAN Security” on page 43 ◆ “Wireless Distri[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Basic Settings – 35 – The Basic Settings page allows y ou to configure the wireless netw ork name (Service Set Identi fier or SSID) an d set the wireless security method. Click on “Wireless Settings, ” followed by “Basic. ” Figure 14: Basic Settings The following items are displa yed on this page: ◆[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Basic Settings – 36 – ■ 11b/g/n mixed mode : All 802.11b/g/n clients can communicate with the Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater (up to 150 Mbps) , but data trans mission rates may be slowed to compensate for 802.11b/ g clients. ■ 11n only : Only 802.11n clients will be able to communicate with the Wireles[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Basic Settings – 37 – HT P HYSICAL M ODE S ETTINGS The HT Physical Mode section on the Wireless Settings Adv anced page includes additional par ameters for 802.11n operation. Figure 15: HT Physical Mode Settings The following items are displa yed in this section on t his page: ◆ Channel Bandwidth — The Wi[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Advanced Settings – 38 – ◆ Decline BA Request — Select to reject peer BA -Request or not. (Default: Disabled) A DVANCED S ETTINGS The Advanc ed Settings page includes additional par ameters concerning the wireless network and Wi-Fi Multimedia settings. N OTE : There are sever al variabl es to consider whe[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Advanced Settings – 39 – The following items are displa yed in this section on t his page: ◆ BG Protection Mode — Enables a backward compatible protection mechanism for 802.11b clients. Ther e are three modes: (Defaul t: Auto) ■ Auto — The unit enables its prot ection mechanism for 8 02.11b clients wh[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Advanced Settings – 40 – After receiving an R TS frame, the st ation sends a CTS (clear to send) frame to notify the sending station that it can start sending data. If the R TS threshold is set to 0, the access point always sends R TS signals. If set to 2347, the access point nev er sends RTS s ignals. If set[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Advanced Settings – 41 – WMM defines four acces s categories (A Cs): voice, video , best effort, and background. These categories correspond to tr affic priority level s and are mapped to IEEE 802.1D priority tags (see Ta b l e 3 ). The direct mapping of the four ACs to 802.1D priorities i s specifically inte[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Advanced Settings – 42 – ◆ WMM Parameters — Click the WMM Configuration button to set detailed WMM parameters. Figure 18: WMM Configuration The following items are displayed in th e WMM Configur ation wind ow: ◆ AIFSN (Arbitration Inter- Frame Space) — The minimum amount of wait time befo re the next [...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration WLAN Security – 43 – ◆ ACM — The admission control mode for the access cate gory . When enabled, clients are b locked from using the access category . (Default: Disabled) ◆ AckPolicy — By default, all wireless data t ransmissions require the sender to wait for an acknowledge ment from the receiver . W[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration WLAN Security – 44 – The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater supports supports ten different security mechanisms that pro vide va rious levels of au thentication and encryption depending on the requirements of the network. The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater supports four S SID interfaces. Each SSID interface[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration WLAN Security – 45 – When you select to use WEP , be sure to define at least one static WEP key for user authentication or data encr yption. Also, be sure that the WEP shared keys are the same for each client in the wireless network. Figure 21: Security Mode - WEP The following items are displa yed in this se[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration WLAN Security – 46 – WP A P RE -S HARED K EY Wi-Fi Protec ted Access (WPA) was introduc ed as an interim solu tion for the vulnerabilit y of WEP pending the ad option of a more robust wireless security standard. WP A2 includes the complete wireless security standard, but also offers backward compatibility wit[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration WLAN Security – 47 – ■ AES — Uses Advanced Encrypt ion Standard (AES) keys for encryption. WP A2 uses AES Counte r-Mode encryption with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authenti cation Code (CBC-MAC) f or message integrity . The AES Counter-Mode/CBCMAC Protocol (AES- CCMP) provides extremel y robust data con[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration WLAN Security – 48 – Figure 23: Security Mode - WPA The following items are displa yed in this section on t his page: Security Mode — Configures the WPA and WP A2 security modes used by clients. When using WP A or WPA2, be su re there is a RADIUS serv er in the connected wired network, and that the RADIUS s[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration WLAN Security – 49 – CCMP) provides extremel y robust data confidentialit y using a 128- bit key . Use of AES-CCMP encryption is specifi ed as a standard requirement for WP A2. Before impl ementing WP A2 in the network, be sure client devices are upgr aded to WPA2-compliant hardware. ■ TKIP/AES — Uses eit[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration WLAN Security – 50 – Figure 24: Security Mode - 80 2.1X The following items are displa yed in this section on t his page: Security Mode — Configures the 802.1X securi ty mode used by clients. When using 802.1X, either with WP A/WPA2 or on its own, be sure there is a configured RADIUS server in the connected[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Wireless Distribution System (WDS) – 51 – A CCESS P OL ICY The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater prov ides a MAC address filt ering facility . The access policy can be set to allow or reject specifi c station MAC addresses. This feature can be used to connect known wireless devices that may not be able to sup[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Wireless Distribution System (WDS) – 52 – Figure 26: Manual WDS MAC A ddress Configuration Figure 27: WDS Configuration Example N OTE : When using WDS Lazy mode in the network, at least one unit must be set to Bridge or R epeater mode. Wired Network MAC: 00-22-2D-62-EA-1 1 WDS MAC List: 00-22-2D-62-EA-22 00-2[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Wireless Distribution System (WDS) – 53 – Figure 28: WD S Configuration The WDS settings configure WDS rela ted parameters. Up to four MAC addresses can be specified for each unit in the WDS network. WDS l inks may either be manually configured (B ridge and R epeater modes) or auto- discov ered (Lazy mode). T[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) – 54 – ■ Repeater : Operates as a wirele ss repeater , extending the rang e for remote wireless clients and connecti ng them to an AP connected to the wired network. The MAC address es of WDS peers must be configured on the Wireless -N Access Point/R epeater . ◆ Physical — Th[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) – 55 – The following items are displa yed on this page: ◆ WPS — Enables WPS, l ocks security settings, and refreshes WPS configurati on information. (Default: Disabled) Figure 30: WPS Configuration The following items are displa yed on this page: WPS Summary — Provides detail[...]
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C HAPTER 6 | Wireless Configuration Station List – 56 – ◆ AP PIN — Displays the PIN Code for the Wireles s-N Access Poi nt/ Repeater . The defa ult is ex clusive for each unit. ◆ Reset WPS to Default — Resets the WPS se ttings to factory defaul t val ue s. WPS Config — Configures WPS settings for the Wireless-N Access P oint/ Rep ea t[...]
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– 57 – 7 A DMINISTRATION S ETTINGS The Wirele ss-N Access Point/Repeater ’ s Admi nistr ation Se ttings allow you to configure a management access password, set the system time, upgrade the system s oftware, display the system status and statis tics. Administr ation Settings cont ains the following sections: ◆ “System Management” on pag[...]
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C HAPTER 7 | Administration Settings System Management – 58 – The following items are displa yed in the first two sections on this page: ◆ Language Settings — Y ou can change the language display ed in web interface. Select the la nguage of your choice from the drop-down list, then click “ Apply” . (Options: English, T raditional Chines[...]
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C HAPTER 7 | Administration Settings Firmware Upgrade – 59 – F IRMWARE U PGRADE Y ou can update the Wireless-N Access P oint/Re peater firmware by using the Firmware Update facility . Figure 34: Firmware Upgr ade The following items are displa yed on this page: ◆ Firmware Upgrade — Allows you to upload new firmware manually by specifying a [...]
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C HAPTER 7 | Administration Settings Configuration Settings – 60 – C ONFIGURATION S ETTINGS The Configuration Sett ing page allows you to sa ve the Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater’ s current configurat ion or restore a previously saved configur ation back to the device. Figure 35: Conf iguration Settings The following items are displa yed o[...]
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C HAPTER 7 | Administration Settings System Status – 61 – S YSTEM S TA T US The System Information page displa ys basic system information and the display ed settings are for status info rmation only and are not configurable on this page. This information is spli t into the three sections that follow . Figure 36: Syst em Status The following it[...]
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C HAPTER 7 | Administration Settings Statistics – 62 – S TA T IS T I CS The Wireless-N Access P oint/R epeater T raffic Statisti cs - Interfaces window displays received and tr ansmitted packet statistics for all int erfaces on the Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeater . Figure 37: Statistics The following items are displa yed on this page: ◆ Mem[...]
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C HAPTER 7 | Administration Settings System Log – 63 – ◆ Tx bytes — Displays the total number of bytes tr ansmitted by the specifie d interface. S YSTEM L OG The Wireless-N Access P oint/Repeat er supports a l ogging process that controls error messages sav ed to memory or sent to a S yslog server . The logged messages serve as a valuable t[...]
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C HAPTER 7 | Administration Settings System Log – 64 – ◆ Clear — Remo ves the current system log messages from the Sys tem Log T able.[...]
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– 65 – S ECTION III A PPENDICES This section provi des additional information and includes these i tems: ◆ “T roubleshooting” on page 66 ◆ “Hardware Specifications ” on page 68 ◆ “Cables and Pinouts” on page 70 ◆ “Glossary” on page 77 ◆ “Index” on page 81[...]
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– 66 – A T ROUBLESHOOTING D IAGNOSING LED I NDICATORS B EFORE C ONT ACTING T ECHNICAL S UPPORT Check the following items before you contact local T echnical Support. 1. If the Access P oint/R epeater cann ot be configured using a web browser: ■ Be sure to have configured the Access Point/R epeater with a v alid IP address, subnet mask and def[...]
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A PPENDIX A | Troubleshooting Before Contacting Technical Support – 67 – Then use the default user name “admin” and password “smcadmin” to access the management interface. 3. If all other recovery measure fail, an d the Access Point/R epeater is still not functioning properly , take any of these steps: ■ Reset the Access P oint/R epea[...]
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– 68 – B H ARDWARE S PECIFICATIONS P ORT I NTERFACE S LAN 1~4: 1 10/100BASE- TX port, RJ-45 connector , auto MDI/X (100-ohm, UTP cable; Category 5 or better) AC P OWER A DAPTER Input: 100~240 V AC, 50/60 Hz Output: 5 V/ 1 A LED I NDICATORS P ower , WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network), WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup), LAN 1~4 (Local Area Network) . N[...]
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A PPENDIX B | Hardware Specifications – 69 – S AFETY EN 60950-1 (2006) E NVIRONMENT AL ETSI EN 300 019-2-1 Class 1.2 (Storage) ETSI EN 300 019-2-2 Class 2.3 (Packaged) ETSI EN 300 019-2-3 Class 3.2 (Operating)[...]
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– 70 – C C ABLES AND P INOUT S T WISTED -P AIR C ABLE A SSIGNMENT S For 1 0/100BASE- TX connections, a twisted-pair cable mus t have two pairs of wires. F or 1000BASE- T connections the t wisted-pair cable must hav e four pairs of wires. Each wire pai r is identified by two different colors. For example, one wire might be g reen and the other ,[...]
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A PPENDIX C | Cables and Pinouts 10/100BASE-TX Pin Assignments – 71 – 10/100BASE-TX P IN A SSIG NMENT S Use unshielded twisted-pair ( UTP) or shielded twisted-pair (STP) c able for RJ-45 connections: 100-ohm Category 3 or better cable for 10 Mbps connections. Also be sure t hat the le ng th of any twisted- pair connection does not exceed 100 me[...]
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A PPENDIX C | Cables and Pinouts Crossover Wiring – 72 – Figure 40: Straight-through Wir ing C ROSSOVER W IRING If the twisted-pair cable is to join two ports and either both ports are labeled wit h an “X” (MDI- X) or neithe r port is labeled with an “X” (MDI), a crossover must be implemented in th e wiring. (When auto-negotiation is en[...]
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– 73 – D L ICENSE I NFORMATION This product includes copyrighted third-p arty software s ubject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public Licens e (LGPL), or other related free sof tware licenses. The GPL code used in this product is di stributed WITHOUT ANY W ARRANTY and is su bject to the copyrights of on[...]
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A PPENDIX D | License Information The GNU General Public License – 74 – GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYIN G , DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICA TION 1. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice pla ced by the copyright holder sayi ng it may be distribute d under the terms of this General Public L[...]
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A PPENDIX D | License Information The GNU General Public License – 75 – b). Accompany it with a written offer , valid for at least three yea rs, to give any third party , for a charge no more than your cost of physic ally performing source distributio n, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding so urce code, to be distribu ted unde[...]
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A PPENDIX D | License Information The GNU General Public License – 76 – 9. If the distribution and/ or use of the Program is restricted in cert ain countries either by pa tents or by copyrighted interfaces, the o riginal copyright h older who places the Program under t his License may add an explici t geographical distribution l imitation excl [...]
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– 77 – G LOSSARY 10BASE-T IEEE 802.3-2005 specification for 10 Mbps Et hernet over two pai rs of Category 3 or better UTP cable. 100BASE-TX IEEE 802.3-2005 specificat ion for 100 Mbps F ast Ethernet over two pairs of Category 5 or better UTP cable. 1000BASE-T IEEE 802.3ab specification for 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet ov er four pairs of Category[...]
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G LOSSARY – 78 – the Bootstrap Protocol (BOO TP), ad ding the capability of automatic allocation of reusable network addresses and additional configuration options. E NCRYPTION Data passing between the ac cess point and cl ients can use encryption to protect from interc eption and evesdropping. E THERNET A popular local area data communi cation[...]
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G LOSSARY – 79 – ODFM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple xing: OFDM allows multiple users t o transmit in an all ocated band by di viding the bandwidth into many narrow bandwidth carriers. SSID Service Set Identifier: An ident ifier th at is attached to p ackets sent o ver the wireless LAN and functions as a password for joining a particula[...]
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G LOSSARY – 80 – WP A-PSK WPA Pre-shared Key: WPA -PSK can be used for sm all office networks wi th a limited number of users that may not need a high level of security . WPA - PSK provides a simple securit y implementation that uses just a pre-shared password for network access.[...]
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– 81 – I NDEX N UMERICS 10/100BASE-TX pin assignments 71 802.11n settings 34 A access categories, WMM 41 access point connections 21 access policy settings 51 AES encryption 47 aggregate MSDU 37 AP isolation 36 authentication options 44 B beacon interval 39 BG protection mode 39 buttons WPS 20 C channel setting 36 common web page buttons 28 con[...]
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I NDEX – 82 – mounting on a wall 24 multicast-to-unicast convertion 43 multiple SSID 36 N network name, wireless 34 , 36 network statistics 62 O open system 43 P Package Contents 18 password default 26 setting 58 PBC mode, WPS 56 physical size 68 PIN code, WPS 56 pinouts, cable 70 PMK cache period 49 power connector 20 preamble, short 40 pre-au[...]
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