Atop AW5500C, User Manual

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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point
AW5500C
User Manual V. 1.1
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period of time, which all devices on the wireless network share. Constantly rekeying the
group key protects your network against intrusion.
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STP or Spanning Tree Protocol, please enable this option if STP is enabled in your
network to prevent network loops. When disabled, AW5500C will not forward STP
BPDUs. Forward Delay time in which the interface takes to converge from blocking
stage to forwarding state. This option only shows in the AP Client mode.
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Maximum Signal Distance is used to determine how fast a wireless signal should be
timed out. If AW5500C is equipped with an outdoor antenna to reach further distances,
increase this value accordingly.
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Fast Handoff is the Atop proprietary protocol to speed up roaming between AW5500Cs.
Enable to allow AW5500C to share its neighboring AW5500C information to SW550X to
further reduce its roaming time.
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Wireless Isolation creates a firewall between wireless clients connected to this AP. The
isolation can be enabled to prevent data traffic flowing between clients to increase client
security and to prevent unnecessary traffic between clients.
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20/40 MHz Coexistence allows AW5500C working in 40MHz to fall back to 20MHz when
there are 20MHz only clients in the wireless network. The AP will also fall back to 20MHz
when the channel within the +-40MHz frequency range has been occupied.
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P2P Button is used to enable or disable the function of Push Button at the front panel of
AW5500C. Default setting is "Enable".