User manual TRENDNET TEW-450APB

[. . . ] Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 1 Product Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 2 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Getting Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] SSID Broadcast Enable / Disable: When SSID Broadcast is enabled, all wireless clients will be able to communicate with the access point. For security purposes, you may want to disable SSID broadcast to allow only those wireless clients with the AP SSID to communicate with the access point. 14 TX Rates (MBps): Select one of the wireless communications transfer rates, measured in megabytes per second, based upon the speed of wireless adapters connected to the WLAN. CTS Mode (clear to send): None- disable CTS function. Always- Regardless of wireless environment (11b or 11g), platform will always transfer 11b packet. Auto- AP soon detected the wireless environment and decided the transmission packet, either 11b or 11g. WDS (Wireless Distribution System): For AP Client mode and Repeater mode. It will add client quantity at the back when you enable this function. 11g Only Mode: If selected the Enable, only allow 802. 11g WLAN client communicate with this WLAN Router Super G mode: From the drop list, if you want to use Super-GTM to enhance the speed, there are three options on Super-GTM mode: Super G without turbo; Super G with Dynamic turbo and Super G with Static turbo. The turbo mode indicates the combination of two channels to enhance the throughput. Firmware Upgrade: Click on the "Browse" button to open a File Open Dialog box, where you get to select the firmware file, which you download from the web for the latest version. Upon selecting the firmware file, click "Upgrade" and complete the firmware upgrade process when the Access Point re-operates after it restarts. SNMP: Enable or disable the SNMP function of the AP. 18 Glossary Access Point: An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and wireless networks. Ad-Hoc: An independent wireless LAN network formed by a group of computers, each with a network adapter. AP Client: One of the additional AP operating modes offered by 54Mbps Access Point, which allows the Access Point to act as an Ethernet-to-Wireless Bridge, thus a LAN or a single computer station can join a wireless ESS network through it. ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII, is one of the two formats that you can use for entering the values for WEP key. Authentication Type: Indication of an authentication algorithm which can be supported by the Access Point: 1. Open System: Open System authentication is the simplest of the available authentication algorithms. Any station that requests authentication with this algorithm may become authenticated if 802. 11 Authentication Type at the recipient station is set to Open System authentication. Shared Key: Shared Key authentication supports authentication of stations as either a member of those who knows a shared secret key or a member of those who does not. Backbone: The core infrastructure of a network, which transports information from one central location to another where the information is unloaded into a local system. Bandwidth: The transmission capacity of a device, which is calculated by how much data the device can transmit in a fixed amount of time expressed in bits per second (bps). Beacon: A beacon is a packet broadcast by the Access Point to keep the network synchronized. Included in a beacon are information such as wireless LAN service area, the AP address, the Broadcast destination addresses, time stamp, Delivery Traffic Indicator Maps, and the Traffic Indicator Message (TIM). [. . . ] If the packet size is smaller than the preset RTS Threshold size, the RTS/CTS mechanism will NOT be enabled. 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. 22 Subnet Mask: The method used for splitting IP networks into a series of sub-groups, or subnets. The mask is a binary pattern that is matched up with the IP address to turn part of the host ID address field into a field for subnets. [. . . ]