Atop AW5500C, User Manual

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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point
AW5500C
User Manual V. 1.1
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Figure 4.5
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SSID Broadcast: allow any wireless client to search for this access point presence, it is
enabled by default. When the SSID Broadcast is disabled, wireless clients need to
manually input the SSID in their wireless client configuration, increasing network security
to prevent an access from unsolicited clients.
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Wireless Mode: 802.11b, 802.11b/g, 802.11b/g/n are available. We suggest leaving this
option to 802.11b/g/n for AW5500C to sense the best available mode
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Channel:
Select “Automatic Channel Select” to let the device automatically assign the
best available channel number. When setting the channels manually, bear in mind that
channels 1, 6, and 11 are the non-overlapping channels for 2.4 GHz Figure 4.6. Again,
you can use “Scan network” to see which channels are already occupied.
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Bandwidth : when 40 MHz is used, AW5500C will double the channel width to 40 MHz as