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Chapter 6. Wireless Setup
6-1 Basic Settings
The versatile Halo Series Radio provides up to five operating modes for your various
purposes.
Figure: 6-1 Basic Settings
Operating Mode
AP is capable of five operating modes: access point, station adapter, wireless bridge,
wireless repeater, and wireless inter-building.
Access Point
Any 802.11a wireless station can communicate with it by SSID.
Station: Perform as a client station associated to other APs. Be sure that they share the
same SSID and secure settings when connected.
Wireless bridge
In this mode, the radio only communicates with another bridge-mode wireless station.
You must enter the MAC address (physical address) of the other bridge-mode wireless
station in the field provided. WEP should be used to protect this communication.
Point to Multi-Point Bridge
Select this only if this radio is the “Master” for a group of bridge-mode wireless stations.
The other bridge-mode wireless stations must be set to Point-to-Point Bridge mode,
using this radio MAC address. They then send all traffic to this “Master”, rather than
communicate directly with each other.
Wireless Repeater
In this half-duplex mode, the radio can communicate with another wireless bridge and
wireless station. You must enter the MAC address of both adjacent wireless bridges in
the fields provided. WEP should be used to secure all data.
