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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

NOTICE ..................................................................................................................................................3

 

PREFACE ...............................................................................................................................................5

 

CH 1. AP-G300 INSTALLATION........................................................................................................6

 

AP-G300..............................................................................................................................................6

 

Packing List ....................................................................................................................................6

 

Hardware Installation.....................................................................................................................7

 

CH 2. FIRST TIME CONFIGURATION ..........................................................................................12

 

B

EFORE 

S

TART TO 

C

ONFIGURE

...........................................................................................................12

 

K

NOWING THE 

N

ETWORK 

A

PPLICATION

.............................................................................................12

 

B

ASIC 

S

ETTINGS

.................................................................................................................................32

 

A

DVANCED 

S

ETTINGS

.........................................................................................................................35

 

C

ONFIGURING 

W

IRELESS 

S

ECURITY

...................................................................................................38

 

C

ONFIGURING AS 

WLAN

 

C

LIENT 

A

DAPTER

.......................................................................................41

 

Q

UICK START TO CONFIGURE

..............................................................................................................41

 

MAC

 

C

LONE FOR 

S

INGLE 

E

THERNET 

C

LIENT

....................................................................................43

 

T

C

ONFIGURING 

U

NIVERSAL 

R

EPEATER

................................................................................................44

 

CH 3. CONFIGURING WDS ..............................................................................................................46

 

WDS

 NETWORK TOPOLOGY

................................................................................................................46

 

WDS

 

A

PPLICATION

.............................................................................................................................48

 

CH 4. ADVANCED CONFIGURATIONS .........................................................................................50

 

C

ONFIGURING 

LAN

 TO 

WAN

 

F

IREWALL

............................................................................................50

 

P

ORT 

F

ILTERING

.................................................................................................................................50

 

IP

 

F

ILTERING

......................................................................................................................................51

 

MAC

 

F

ILTERING

.................................................................................................................................52

 

NAT

 

(N

ETWORK 

A

DDRESS 

T

RANSLATION

).........................................................................................53

 

C

ONFIGURING 

P

ORT 

F

ORWARDING 

(V

IRTUAL 

S

ERVER

)..............................................................................54

 

M

ULTIPLE 

S

ERVERS BEHIND 

NAT

 

E

XAMPLE

: .....................................................................................54

 

C

ONFIGURING 

DMZ ......................................................................................................................... 555

C

ONFIGURING 

WAN

 

I

NTERFACE

....................................................................................................... 566

S

TATIC 

IP.......................................................................................................................................... 566

DHCP

 

C

LIENT 

(D

YNAMIC 

IP)........................................................................................................... 577

PPP

O

E.............................................................................................................................................. 588

PPTP ..................................................................................................................................................59

C

ONFIGURING 

C

LONE 

MAC

 

A

DDRESS

...............................................................................................61

 

C

ONFIGURING 

DHCP

 

S

ERVER

.......................................................................................................... 633

 

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Summary of Contents for AP-G300

Page 1: ...Wireless LAN Device Series WLAN Outdoor AP AP G300 User Manual Version 1 3 0 9a 2006 11 22...

Page 2: ...AC CLONE FOR SINGLE ETHERNET CLIENT 43 T CONFIGURING UNIVERSAL REPEATER 44 CH 3 CONFIGURING WDS 46 WDS NETWORK TOPOLOGY 46 WDS APPLICATION 48 CH 4 ADVANCED CONFIGURATIONS 50 CONFIGURING LAN TO WAN FIR...

Page 3: ...SS THROUGH 700 USING CLI MENU 700 THE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT 733 SNMPAGENT 734 MISCELLANEOUS SETTINGS 766 PING WATCHDOG 777 AIMING TOOL 788 CONNECTING PROFILE 79 FIRMWARE UPGRADE 80 CONFIGURATION DATA BACK...

Page 4: ...terference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interf...

Page 5: ...ransmitter must be fixed mounted on outdoor permanent structures with a separation distance of at least 2 meters from all persons and must not be co located or operating in conjunction with any other...

Page 6: ...ho installs and manages the AIR 802 AP G300 product hereafter referred to as the device To use this guide you should have experience working with the TCP IP configuration and be familiar with the conc...

Page 7: ...300 Packing List Before you start to install the AP G300 make sure the package contains the following items Wireless AP G300 unit Mounting Kit 2 5 U bolts Waterproof Connector Power over Ethernet PoE...

Page 8: ...P G300 into the bracket first 2 You can use the 2 5 inches U bolt to mount on the pipe The two U bolts must be mounted tightly Be aware of not over tighten the U bolt 3 After checking the AP G300 is m...

Page 9: ...3 2 1 3 Connect the RJ 45 network e cable to Ethernet port of IA And then install those parts of waterproof connector one by on 3 2 1 A 4 3 2 1 B C aution C The diameter of network cable has to be ro...

Page 10: ...antenna and antenna port Connect the RF cable as the figure of AP G300 RF Cable Connection and connect the ground wire as the figure of AP G300 Ground Wire Connection Plug the other end of the waterpr...

Page 11: ...ble must be connec C Be careful Don t plug the two cables inversely It will damage the LED Panel devices And you have to use our PoE included in the packing list to guarantee that power supply is norm...

Page 12: ...trength is more than 61 Off Wireless signal strength less than 81 RSSI 100 On Wireless signal strength is more than 81 ote N While using Aiming Tool the device will utilize the flashing frequency to e...

Page 13: ...AN Wireless Local Area Network and wired LAN And in router WISP modes the device can be accessed by both WLAN and WAN The default IP addresses for the device are 192 168 2 254 for LAN 172 1 1 1 for WA...

Page 14: ...ment Bridge The wire selected all the WAN related functions will be disabled WISP Wireless ISP This mode can let you same public IP address from your ISP to the PCs connecting with the wired Ethernet...

Page 15: ...lso the wireless clients can survey and connect to the device The following t wireless radio modes Bridge Router WISP V V X AP V V X WDS V X V Client V V X AP WDS ereafter are some topologies of netwo...

Page 16: ...t Internet through DEV1 We assume all the devices keep the factory default setting To make sure that user can continuing press the rest button for more than 5 seconds to restore the factory default se...

Page 17: ...Mode to Router mode 5 Press Next button then disable Time Zone function 6 Press Next button then set the IP address of LAN interface 7 Press Next button then select the PPPoE for WAN Access Type and f...

Page 18: ...n then select the AP WDS for mode and change the SSID to DEV1 9 Press Next button then select None for Encryption then press Finished button 10 Wait for refreshing web page 11 Use WDS Settings page to...

Page 19: ...he BSSID of DEV2 to Current WDS AP List 13 Since we access the device by wireless connection it may temporarily disconnect when applying the WDS setting After re connecting to the device use the Statu...

Page 20: ...different MAC addresses it may cause you not able to access the web server of device If the situation happens please try to clean the ARP table of your PC by DOS command arp d then you can access the...

Page 21: ...t the IP address of LAN interface 6 Press Next button then select the AP WDS for mode and change the SSID to DEV2 7 Press Next button then select None for Encryption then press Finished button 8 Wait...

Page 22: ...9 Access the web server by new IP address 192 168 2 202 then use LAN Interface page to disable DHCP Server 10 Wait for refreshing web page 11 Use WDS Settings page to configure WDS 21...

Page 23: ...12 Enable WDS function and add the BSSID of DEV1 to Current WDS AP List 13 Use the Status page to check the settings 22...

Page 24: ...IP address but different MAC addresses it may cause you not able to access the web server of device If the situation happens please try to clean the ARP table of your PC by DOS command arp d then you...

Page 25: ...4 Access the web server by new IP address 192 168 2 203 then use Basic Settings page to change SSID and CHANNEL 5 Use the Status page to check the settings 24...

Page 26: ...ifferent MAC addresses it may cause you unable to access the web server of device If the situation happens please try to clean the ARP table of your PC by DOS command arp d then you can access the web...

Page 27: ...f LAN interface 6 Press Next button then select the DHCP Client for WAN Access Type 7 Press Next button then select the Client for mode and change the SSID to DEV4 8 Press Next button then select None...

Page 28: ...ur PC to 192 168 3 x then access the web server by the new IP address 192 168 3 1 and use Status page check the setting 11 If the State of Wireless Configuration is not Connected or you want to refres...

Page 29: ...ifferent MAC addresses it may cause you unable to access the web server of device If the situation happens please try to clean the ARP table of your PC by DOS command arp d then you can access the web...

Page 30: ...t the IP address of LAN interface 6 Press Next button then select the Client for mode and change the SSID to DEV5 7 Press Next button then select None for Encryption then press Finished button 8 Wait...

Page 31: ...9 Access the web server by the new IP address 192 168 2 205 and use LAN Interface page to disable DHCP Server 10 Wait for refreshing webpage 11 Use State page to check setting 30...

Page 32: ...12 If the State of Wireless Configuration is not Connected or you want to refresh the RSSI please use Site Survey page to re connect a AP 31...

Page 33: ...ess clients to join a wireless local network 2 Client Support Infrastructure and Ad hoc network types to act as a wireless adapter 3 WDS Wireless Distribution System this mode serves as a wireless rep...

Page 34: ...g must use the same SSID and channel for establishing the wireless connection PC 3 PC 2 AP Client 1 AP Client 2 AP Client 3 PC 1 In client mode the device can t support the Router mode function includ...

Page 35: ...ael and China 6 2437 Americas EMEA Japan Israel and China 7 2442 Americas EMEA Japan Israel and China 8 2447 Americas EMEA Japan Israel and China 9 2452 Americas EMEA Japan Israel and China 10 2457 Am...

Page 36: ...able value change to default setting will reduce the throughput of the device Authentication Type The device supports two Authentication Types Open system and Shared Key When you select Share Key you...

Page 37: ...need to change this value due to the environment or distance Client Expired Time The client expired time determines time interval the client need to re associate with the device while client is idle...

Page 38: ...If you use the 802 1x authentication you need to have the user profile in these devices for the roaming station Block WLAN Relay Isolate Client The device supports isolation function If you are build...

Page 39: ...at security function you need WEP Encryption Setting Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP is implemented in this device to prevent unauthorized access to your wireless network The WEP setting must be as same...

Page 40: ...The device supports external RADIUS Server that can secure networks against unauthorized access If you use the WEP encryption you can also use the RADIUS server to check the admission of the users By...

Page 41: ...via WPA RADIUS Server You need a RADIUS or other authentication server on the network z Enterprise RADIUS When WPA Authentication mode is Enterprise RADIUS you have to add user accounts and the target...

Page 42: ...Ad Hoc network type or Access Point Infrastructure network type and you don t need to install any driver Quick start to configure Step 1 In Basic Settings page change the Mode to Client mode And key i...

Page 43: ...age select one of the SSIDs you want to connect and then press Connect button to establish the link Step 2 If the linking is established successfully It will show the message Connect successfully Then...

Page 44: ...mode the device supports WEP and WPA Personal Enterprise except WPA2 mixed mode data encryption About the detail data encryption settings please refer the security section MAC Clone for Single Ethern...

Page 45: ...r AP let user can link the network that they want Also the device working as AP and Repeater same time Following two ways describe how to make Universal Repeater effective 1 Enable Universal Repeater...

Page 46: ...Note Under AP WDS and AP WDS mode The Universal Repeater can take effective 2 Enter specific SSID in the Extended SSID field and then click Apply Changes button to take effective 45...

Page 47: ...le the 802 1d Spanning Tree function z You don t need to add all MAC address of devices existed in your network to WDS AP List WDS AP List only needs to specify the MAC address of devices you need to...

Page 48: ...ess of WDS1 No WDS4 The MAC Address of WDS1 No WDS5 The MAC Address of WDS1 No Ring topology Device Entries of WDS AP List Spanning Tree Protocol Required WDS1 The MAC Addresses of WDS2 and WDS5 Yes W...

Page 49: ...C Addresses of WDS1 WDS2 WDS3 and WDS4 Yes WDS Application Wireless Repeater Wireless Repeater can be used to increase the coverage area of another device Parent AP Between the Parent AP and the Wirel...

Page 50: ...h a wireless connection between two or more Wired LANs When you decide to use the WDS as a Wireless Bridge please refer the following instructions for configuration z In AP mode enable the WDS functio...

Page 51: ...ng default policy in Route page The IP forwarding default policy is ACCEPT If you want block some application from LAN to WAN you can go to Route page to select ACCEPT for IP Forwarding Default Policy...

Page 52: ...rewall will allow those packets form LAN to WAN IP Filtering When you enable the IP Filtering function you can specify local IP Addresses in current filter table If you select ACCEPT for the IP forwar...

Page 53: ...ll allow those packets form LAN to WAN MAC Filtering When you enable the MAC Filtering function you can specify the MAC Addresses in current filter table If you select ACCEPT for the IP forwarding def...

Page 54: ...ose packets form LAN to WAN NAT Network Address Translation NAT is the translation between public IP address and private IP address While NAT is enabling you can use port forwarding or DMZ to redirect...

Page 55: ...e Services Port Number ECHO 7 FTP File Transfer Protocol 21 Telnet 23 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 25 DNS Domain Name System 53 Finger 79 HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol 80 POP3 Post Protocol...

Page 56: ...Web HTTP servers FTP servers SMTP e mail servers and DNS servers So that all inbound packets will be redirected to the computer you set It also is useful while you run some applications ex Internet ga...

Page 57: ...Client PPPoE and PPTP You can select one of the WAN Access Types depend on your ISP required The default WAN Access Type is Static IP Static IP You can get the IP configuration data of Static IP from...

Page 58: ...the packets to other gateways until they are delivered to the one connected to the specified destination DNS 1 3 The IP addresses of DNS provided by your ISP DNS Domain Name Server is used to map dom...

Page 59: ...b site is found Clone MAC Address Clone device MAC address to the specify MAC address required by your ISP Enable uPnP Enable uPnP this function allows the device to be found and configured automatica...

Page 60: ...change the MTU for optimal performance with your specific ISP DNS1 3 The IP addresses of DNS provided by your ISP DNS Domain Name Server is used to map domain names to IP addresses DNS maintain centr...

Page 61: ...account MTU Size Maximum Transmission Unit 1412 is the default setting you may need to change the MTU for optimal performance with your specific ISP DNS1 3 The IP addresses of DNS provided by your IS...

Page 62: ...s MAC address clone feature to fit the requirement of some ISP need to specify the client MAC address Physical WAN interface MAC Address clone 1 Clone MAC address for Static IP WAN access type 2 Clone...

Page 63: ...3 Clone MAC address for PPPoE WAN access type 4 Clone MAC address for PPTP WAN access type 62...

Page 64: ...is no other DHCP server existed in the same network as the device 2 Enable the DHCP Server option and assign the client range of IP addresses as following page 3 When the DHCP server is enabled and a...

Page 65: ...ream Data Rate Speed of transmit data that from Wireless interface to Ethernet interface Downstream Latency Similar a waiting time the data queuing time Downstream Burst Packet Similar a buffer the da...

Page 66: ...can tolerate some delay Low Typically used for non critical traffic such as a large number of transfers but that should not affect other application Click the QoS link under Management to open the QoS...

Page 67: ...riority s ratio Apply Changes Click this button to save and apply your settings 2 QoS Rule settings The following table describes the labels in this part Label Description IP Address Enter source dest...

Page 68: ...t QoS setting table In this part you can see how many rules have been specified And you can see the detail about the rules and manage the rules This table can input 50 rules at most An example for usa...

Page 69: ...3 and Network 4 separately from Network 1 that Routing Table configuration as below 1 Enable Static Route in Route Setup of TCP IP page and then enter IP Address of Network 3 Subnet Mask and IP Addres...

Page 70: ...2 to transmit and receive the route information with other Routers 1 Enable Dynamic Route and then select RIP 1 RIP2 or Both to transmit receive packets final click Apply Change button 2 Click Show R...

Page 71: ...er daemon inside device uses well known TCP port 22 User must use SSH client utility such like Putty to login the device The default password for user root is qwert once user login the device then can...

Page 72: ...modified by CLI will take effect after rebooting the device Menu Tree List 71...

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Page 74: ...or SSH session please use the CLI menu item G Management F Password SNMP Agent This device is compatible with SNMP v1 v2c and provides standard MIB II Currently only the public community string is ava...

Page 75: ...roblem can find they Trap Receiver IP Address Type the IP Address which is address of SNMP Manager Trap Receiver Community String This is password receive with trap from the device SNMP Agent 3 SNMP T...

Page 76: ...11b only 1 3 6 1 4 1 99 5 RSSI Receive Signal Strength Index Support AP and Client RSSI 1 3 6 1 4 1 99 6 Active_Clients The number of associate clients 1 3 6 1 4 1 99 7 Active_Clients_List Client s In...

Page 77: ...1 4 1 99 8 Encryption Miscellaneous Settings HTTP Port The default http port is 80 For security concern you can change the device s http port to protect this web server from intrusion and attack 1 En...

Page 78: ...ait to receive the radio signal the throughput of this device will be impacted if the interval is too short The default interval is 100 seconds Ping WatchDog Ping WatchDog Enabled Click to enable this...

Page 79: ...Rebooting Delay The time before it starting rebooting When it meets the Ping Threshold it will wait for this time and then reboot The default value is 60 Aiming Tool The Aiming tool can help the inst...

Page 80: ...e more frequency the LED flashing the more RSSI it detected From 20 to100 on the following picture the more LED on means the more RSSI detected For example if the 20 LED and 40 LED are both on and fla...

Page 81: ...the throughput a lot Unless the signal strength is good enough otherwise don t set the interval too short The default value is 10 minutes And currently all the profiles share the same security settin...

Page 82: ...ge Memory Limitation To make sure the device have enough memory to upload firmware the system will check the capacity of free memory if the device lack of memory to upload firmware please temporarily...

Page 83: ...can use this tool to find out how many devices in your local area network The name of tool is WirelessConf exe it in the packing CD Login When the user opens this Auto Discovery tool the login passwo...

Page 84: ...ord button The pop up window shows that the password has been successfully changed d e f g h i j c 2 Discover fter press this button you could see there are how many devices in your network basic info...

Page 85: ...ou would see Setup IP Address window s IP Address Netmask and Default Gateway in this on AP Client mode p IP You could change device window But if the device s web server needs User Name and Password...

Page 86: ...ode or AP WDS mode you could press WDS button and then you would see the WDS List window 6 Active Clients After press Active Clients button you would see WLAN AP Active Clients window In this window y...

Page 87: ...on to leave this tool 9 Reset the password to default password If the user had changed the login password and forgot it he can execute ResetPassword exe to reset to the default password When the passw...

Page 88: ...king router which may or may not already exist If you already have a wireless broadband router then it can be used in this application to provide your computers wireless network connectivity If you do...

Page 89: ...d with the correct connector types at each end For the most professional installation and to meet the National Electric Code requirements you should also purchase a lightning protector to be inserted...

Page 90: ...2 254 and the subnet mask is 255 255 255 0 For example in Microsoft Windows XP you will need to click under the control panel then Network Connections then Local Area Connection then scroll down to In...

Page 91: ...Click Next The following screen should appear Click the option Wireless ISP and then Next The following screen should appear 90...

Page 92: ...You may elect to either click Enable NTP client update and selecting the proper time zone and location or click Next Once finished the following screen should appear 91...

Page 93: ...The default address will be used by most folks Do not attempt to change this information unless you are an experienced networking professional Click Next The following screen should appear 92...

Page 94: ...e WAN interface screen will not have DHCP Client as the default value Please use the drop down menu and select DHCP client for this application Then click Next and the following screen should appear 9...

Page 95: ...ck on Wireless followed by a click on Site Survey After you have the Wireless Site Survey page click on Refresh A list of the available networks will appear Click on Select to the right of the SSID yo...

Page 96: ...e if you are accessing a public access point At this point simply close the browser Remove the cable from your computer and plug it back into the WAN DSL or Cable Modem port on the home broadband wire...

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