User manual AIRLIVE WH-9000MESH

[. . . ] WH-9000MESH Dual-Band MESH AP/Bridge User's Manual Copyright © 2005 OvisLink Corp. No part of this documentation may be reproduced in any form or by any means or to make any derivative work (such as translation, transformation, or adaptation) without written permission from OvisLink Corp. OvisLink Corp. reserves the right to revise this documentation and to make changes in content from time to time without obligation on the part of OvisLink Corp. provides this documentation without warranty, term or condition of any kind, implied or expressed, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties, terms, or conditions of merchantability, satisfactory quality, and fitness for a particular purpose. [. . . ] Before you setting the channel, you had better to use the optimal channel function to detect the environment's radio signal and choose the best one for using. Optimal channel If you click on the button "Select the optimal channel", a popup screen will display the choices. After enter this function, the WH-9000MESH detects the environment's radio signal at each channel and show them at this screen. This action does not select the channel for you but shows you what will most probably be channel selected if you leave the following dropdown menu at Yes. 25 AirLive WH-9000-MESH User's Manual 802. 11b, 802. 11g and 802. 11b/g Mixed mode There are 11 (13 for ETSI) channel numbers that may be assigned. Because the 802. 11b signal bandwidth is 22MHz, there are 3 non-overlapping channels for 802. 11b at 2. 4GHz ISM band. To reduce the interference problem, you may be able to establish up to 3 wireless networks at the same area. If you need establish 3 wireless networks, you may assign channel number 1 to the first wireless network. Then the channel 6 will be better for second wireless networks and channel 11 will be the third one. 802. 11g Super The 802. 11g Super mode occupies larger frequency bandwidth. To avoid interfere another wireless network operation, it is fixed at channel 6. 802. 11a and 802. 11a Turbo The frequency band of IEEE 802. 11a will vary according to individual country regulations. The FCC (U. S) has allocated three bands, UNII1(5. 15~5. 25GHz), UNII2(5. 25 ~ 5. 35GHz) and UNII3(5. 725~5. 825GHz). At Taiwan, the 802. 11a device use the 5. 725GHz ~ 5. 875GHz frequency band. Refer to Appendix A to get more information. 6. 1. 5 TX Power Mode The Tx Power Mode let you can set the radio power as you wanted. It defaults to Auto, giving the larger range of radio transmission available under normal conditions. As an option, the AP's cover range can be limited by setting the TX Power Mode to Fixed and choosing from 1~5 for fixed power level (1 being the shortest distance. ) Finally, if you want to prevent any radio frequency transmission, set Tx Pwr Mode to off. 26 AirLive WH-9000-MESH User's Manual 6. 1. 6 Advanced Option There are a number of advanced options described in the following chart: Advanced Options Beacon interval RTS Threshold 0 ~ 4095 0 ~ 3000 The frequency in milliseconds in which the 802. 11 beacon is transmitted by AP The number of bytes used for the RTS/CTS handshake boundary. When a packet size is greater than the RTS threshold, the RTS/CTS handshaking is performed DTIM 1~65535 The number of beacon intervals between successive Delivery Traffic Identification Maps (DTIMs). This feature is used for Power Save Mode Basic Rate Basic Rate for 802. 11b 1 and 2 Mbps 1, 2, 5. 5 and 11Mbps The basic rates used and reported by the AP. The highest rate specified is the rate that the AP uses when transmitting broadcast/multicast and management frames Basic Rate for 802. 11a, 802. 11g, or 802. 11b/g mixed 1 and 2 Mbps 1, 2, 5. 5 , 6 , 11, 12, and 24 Mbps The basic rates used and reported by the AP. The highest rate specified is the rate that the AP uses when transmitting broadcast/multicast and management frames Specifies whether frames are transmitted with the Short or Long Preamble. Preamble Short/Long Preamble Broadcast SSID Enabled/Disabled When disabled, the AP hides the SSID in outgoing beacon frames and client can not obtain the SSID through passive scanning. Also, when it is disable, the AP doesn't send probe responses to probe requests with unspecified SSIDs. 6. 2 Wireless Access Point ­ Security Click the entry on the left hand navigation panel for Wireless Access Point ­ Security. The WH-9000MESH will display a default factory setting of no encryption, but for security reasons will not communicate to any clients unless the encryptions set by administrator. [. . . ] The distributed default gateway is the first IP address in the valid range. The distribute netmask is 255. 0. 0. 0. 13. 2 Factory Default Click the entry on the left hand navigation panel for System Administration ­ Factory Default to enter this page. The "Restore" button is a fallback troubleshooting function that should only be use to reset system to original settings. 59 AirLive WH-9000-MESH User's Manual 13. 3 Remote Logging Click the entry on the left hand navigation panel for System Administration ­ Remote Logging to enter this page. Remote logging allows you to forward the syslog data from each machine to a central remote logging server. [. . . ]