Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point
AW5500C
User Manual V. 1.1
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Note:
it is possible to setup a Hybrid (Parent) without a Station (Child). The difference between a Hybrid and a Station
is that the Station does not allow wireless clients to associate to it.
For AW5500C quick steps to work as in WDS Mode, the procedure is as follows:
On operation mode choose
“WDS Bridge”.
Go to
Wireless
→
Basic Settings;
on
WDS Mode
you can choose whether to use the
AW5500C as a
Root AP, Hybrid,
or
Station.
Also as before, you can change the
Network Name
(SSID) to your preferred name; you might want to first click on
“Scan
network”
to find whether there are neighbors with a name matching yours (this is done
for preventing any conflict over networks). From here three different configurations are
therefore possible:
When on Root mode
SSID Broadcast
can be disabled here for an additional level of security.
On
Wireless Mode,
we recommend using
802.11 a/n
since it is not as
crowded as
802.11 b/g/n;
however this is only possible if it is supported by
your wireless client.
Channel and transmission rate
can be chosen
automatically by the AW5500C, however feel free to change them to the
settings that work for you.
On
WDS Settings
→
Encryption Type,
do not leave this option as NONE,
non-existent encryption will result in an easy target for undesired access to
your network.
On
Root AP,
the
MAC address
is to be left empty; again the Local Area
network fields should be entered with their corresponding values for the
network being configured.
Save and apply the settings for them to take effect.
When on Hybrid mode
Please remember that the SSID here should be the same as the Root AP. This
also means roaming is possible between APs.
On
WDS Settings
→
Root AP,
the
MAC address
entered should be the
Root/Hybrid’s (Parent’s)
Second MAC address that is directly above this
Hybrid AP.
It might not be the
Root AP’s
MAC address if the WDS setup has
a multilayer architecture.
Save and apply the settings for them to take effect.
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