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Wireless 150N Outdoor 

Range Extender / 

Access Point 

User Manual 

Model 525497 

INT-525497-UM-1013-01

 

 

Summary of Contents for 525497

Page 1: ...Wireless 150N Outdoor Range Extender Access Point User Manual Model 525497 INT 525497 UM 1013 01 ...

Page 2: ...pare your PC to configure the Access Point 15 4 2 Connect to the Access Point 16 4 3 Management and configuration of the Access Point 16 4 3 1 Wizard 16 4 3 1 1 Bridge Mode 16 4 3 1 2 Gateway Mode 21 4 3 1 3 WISP Mode 30 4 3 2 Operation Mode 41 4 3 3 Internet Settings 43 4 3 3 1 WAN 43 4 3 3 2 LAN 48 4 3 3 3 VPN Passthrough 49 4 3 4 Wireless Settings 50 4 3 4 1 Basic 50 4 3 4 2 Advanced 52 4 3 4 3...

Page 3: ...and MAC addresses 76 5 2 What is Wireless LAN 76 5 3 What are ISM bands 76 5 4 How does wireless networking work 77 5 5 What is BSSID 78 5 6 What is ESSID 78 5 7 What are potential factors that may cause interference 78 5 8 What are the Open System and Shared Key authentications 78 5 9 What is WEP 78 5 10 What is Fragment Threshold 79 5 11 What is RTS Request to Send Threshold 79 5 12 What is Beac...

Page 4: ...l TKIP 81 5 19 What is Advanced Encryption Standard AES 81 5 20 What is Inter Access Point Protocol IAPP 81 5 21 What is Wireless Distribution System WDS 81 5 22 What is Universal Plug and Play PnP 81 5 23 What is Maximum Transmission Unit MTU Size 81 5 24 What is Clone MAC Address 81 ...

Page 5: ...hentication Protocol ESP Encapsulating Security Payload FCC Federal Communications Commission FTP File Transfer Protocol IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IKE Internet Key Exchange IP Internet Protocol ISM Industrial Scientific and Medical LAN Local Area Network MAC Media Access Control MD5 Message Digest 5 NAT Network Address Translation NT Network Termination NTP Network Time...

Page 6: ...emporal Key Integrity Protocol UPnP Universal Plug and Play VPN Virtual Private Network WDS Wireless Distribution System WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy WLAN Wireless Local Area Network WPA Wi Fi Protected Access ...

Page 7: ...eds of 54 Mbps data rate Compatible with the IEEE 802 11b standard to provide wireless speeds of 11 Mbps data rate Maximizes performance and is ideal for mediacentric applications like streaming video gaming and Voice over IP technology Supports various operational modes Bridge Gateway Ethernet Converter between wireless and wired Ethernet interfaces Supports WPS 64 bit and 128 bit WEP WPA and WPA...

Page 8: ... Router is powered Off ON Wireless Radio On Off Wireless Radio Off 2 WLAN LED Flashing Data is transmitting or receiving on the wireless ON Port linked Off No link 3 WAN LED Flashing Data is transmitting or receiving on the WAN interface ON Port linked Off No link 4 LAN LED Flashing Data is transmitting or receiving on the LAN interface ...

Page 9: ...ugh Category 5 cables Supports auto sensing on 10 100M speed and half full duplex complies with IEEE 802 3 802 3u respectively Main right The RJ45 socket allows WAN connection through a Category 5 cable Supports auto sensing at 10 100M speeds and half full duplex complies with IEEE 802 3 802 3u respectively Reset bottom Press the Reset button about 5 10 seconds to reset the configuration parameter...

Page 10: ... Appearance and Interface Introduction Note The product images are for reference only refer to the actual product 1 LED Panel 2 Waterproof sliding cover 3 Passthrough for Ethernet cable 4 Push this button to remove the upper housing ...

Page 11: ...11 5 Pole Mount 6 Wall Mount 7 Secondary port with PoE 8 Main port 9 SMA connector for external antenna 10 Reset button ...

Page 12: ...dware Installation Steps Step 1 Push the button on the side to remove upper housing Step 2 Pass Ethernet cable through the hole insert the cable into the secondary port Note RJ 45 8P8C Ethernet cable is required ...

Page 13: ...J45 LAN This jack is linked to the LAN side of a PC hub or router ADSL modem device with RJ45 There is no software driver or utility installation needed only the configuration settings Refer to Chapter 4 for software configuration Notice It will take about 50 seconds to complete the boot up sequence after powering on The Power LED will light then the WLAN Activity LED will flash to indicate the WL...

Page 14: ...o use this device more easily The AP is delivered with the following factory default parameters on the Ethernet LAN interfaces Default IP address 192 138 2 1 Default IP subnet mask 255 255 255 0 Web login user name admin Web login password admin Telnet login user name admin Telnet login password admin ...

Page 15: ...t Specify an IP address and type in values as per the following example IP Address 192 168 1 1 any IP address within 192 168 1 1 to 192 168 1 254 is good to connect the Wireless LAN Access Point Don t use 192 138 2 1 IP Subnet Mask 255 255 255 0 8 Click OK to complete the IP parameters setting For Windows Vista 7 1 Click the Start button and select Settings then click Control Panel The Control Pan...

Page 16: ...ement and configuration of the AP 4 3 1 Wizard The setup wizard will be changed when you select different operation modes 4 3 1 1 Bridge Mode This mode is for bridge setting The Setup Wizard will guide you to configure the device to connect to your ISP Internet Service Provider Click Next to go to the next step for LAN IP address settings Step 1 Configure LAN IP address settings ...

Page 17: ...communication frequency channel from pull down menu Network Name SSID It is the wireless network name The SSID can be 32 bytes long Channel Bandwidth Select the operating channel width 20 MHz or 20 40 MHz Security Mode Select the security mode related to wireless data encryption Pre Shared Key WEP When you select WEP input 5 13 ASCII 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters for the WEP Key WPA PSK WPA2 PSK...

Page 18: ...18 OPEN WEP SHARED WEP ...

Page 19: ...19 WPA PSK WPA2 PSK When you finish these settings click Apply to save Choose either Client or WDS then click Next to go to Step 3 ...

Page 20: ...20 Step 3 a Configure AP Client Mode Settings b Configure WDS Mode Settings ...

Page 21: ...21 4 3 1 2 Gateway Mode This mode is for home networking The Setup Wizard will guide you to configure the device to connect to your ISP Internet Service Provider Step 1 Configure LAN IP address settings ...

Page 22: ... Click Next to go to the next step for Internet connection settings There are five options DHCP Static Mode PPPOE L2TP PPTP for Internet connection on the WAN port a DHCP Auto Configure If you select the DHCP option click Next to jump to Step 3 ...

Page 23: ... interface Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for the WAN interface Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface outgoing data packets Primary DNS Server Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 1 Secondary DNS Server Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 2 When you finish these settings click Next to jump to Step 3 ...

Page 24: ... the password to log in to the PPPoE server Verify Password Fill in the password again for verification Operation Mode Keep Alive Keep the PPPoE connection all the time Also configure the Redial Period field On Demand Configure the Idle Time field When time is up the PPPoE connection will disconnect The connection will re connect when any outgoing packet arises Manual Lets a user connect manually ...

Page 25: ...d to log in to the L2TP server Address Mode Static To configure the IP address information manually fill in the related settings below Dynamic The option allows the machine to get IP address information automatically from the DHCP server on the WAN side IP Address Fill in the IP address for the WAN interface Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for the WAN interface Default Gateway Fill in the defa...

Page 26: ...ord to log in to the PPTP server Address Mode Static To configure the IP address information manually fill in the related settings below Dynamic This option allows the machine to get IP address information automatically from the DHCP server on the WAN side IP Address Fill in the IP address for the WAN interface Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for the WAN interface Default Gateway Fill in the d...

Page 27: ... frequency channel from pull down menu Network Name SSID It is the wireless network name The SSID can be 32 bytes long Channel Bandwidth Select the operating channel width 20 MHz or 20 40 MHz Security Mode Please select the security mode related to the wireless data encryption Pre Shared Key WEP When you select WEP input 5 13 ASCII 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters for WEP Key WPA PSK WPA2 PSK When ...

Page 28: ...28 OPEN WEP SHARED WEP ...

Page 29: ...29 WPA PSK WPA2 PSK When you finish these settings click Apply to save Choose either Client or WDS then click Next to go to Step 3 ...

Page 30: ...30 4 3 1 3 WISP Mode This mode is for home networking The Setup Wizard will guide you to configure the device to connect to your ISP Internet Service Provider Step 1 Configure LAN IP address settings ...

Page 31: ...nection Click Next to go to the Internet connection settings There are five options DHCP Static Mode PPPOE L2TP PPTP for Internet connection on the WAN port a DHCP Auto Configure If you select DHCP option click Next to jump to Step 3 ...

Page 32: ... interface Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for the WAN interface Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface outgoing data packets Primary DNS Server Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 1 Secondary DNS Server Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 2 When you finish these settings click Next to jump to Step 3 ...

Page 33: ... password to log in to the PPPoE server Verify Password Fill in the password again for verification Operation Mode Keep Alive Keep the PPPoE connection all the time Also configure the Redial Period field On Demand Configure the Idle Time field When time is up the PPPoE connection will disconnect The connection will re connect when any outgoing packet arises Manual Lets a user connect manually When...

Page 34: ... to log in to the L2TP server Address Mode Static To configure the IP address information manually fill in the related settings below Dynamic The option allows the machine to get IP address information automatically from the DHCP server on the WAN side IP Address Fill in the IP address for the WAN interface Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for the WAN interface Default Gateway Fill in the defau...

Page 35: ...rd to log in to the PPTP server Address Mode Static To configure the IP address information manually fill in the related settings below Dynamic This option allows the machine to get IP address information automatically from the DHCP server on the WAN side IP Address Fill in the IP address for the WAN interface Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for the WAN interface Default Gateway Fill in the de...

Page 36: ...unication frequency channel from pull down menu Network Name SSID It is the wireless network name The SSID can be 32 bytes long Channel Bandwidth Select the operating channel width 20 MHz or 20 40 MHz Security Mode Select the security mode related wireless data encryption Pre Shared Key WEP When you select WEP input 5 13 ASCII 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters for WEP Key WPA PSK WPA2 PSK When WPA W...

Page 37: ...37 OPEN WEP When you finish these settings click Next to jump to Step 4 SHARED WEP When you finish these settings click Next to jump to Step 4 ...

Page 38: ...38 WPA PSK When you finish these settings click Next to jump to Step 4 ...

Page 39: ...network name The SSID can be 32 bytes long Channel Bandwidth Select the operating channel width 20 MHz or 20 40 MHz Security Mode Select the security mode related wireless data encryption Pre Shared Key WEP When you select WEP input 5 13 ASCII 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters for WEP Key WPA PSK WPA2 PSK When WPA WPA2 Pre shared key encryption is selected fill in the Pre shared key The format can b...

Page 40: ...40 Step 4 Configure AP Client setting SCAN APs ...

Page 41: ...l Ethernet and wireless interfaces to be bridged into a single bridge interface b Gateway Gateway mode allows the first Ethernet port to be treated as a WAN port The Ethernet port and the wireless interface are bridged together and are treated as LAN ports ...

Page 42: ...42 c Wireless ISP The Wireless ISP mode allows that the wireless interface is treated as a WAN port and the Ethernet ports are LAN ports ...

Page 43: ...bnet mask for the WAN interface Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface outgoing data packets Primary DNS Server Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 1 Secondary DNS Server Fill in the IP address of Domain Name Server 2 MAC Clone Use the NIC MAC address of the PC on the LAN side as the MAC address of the WAN interface ...

Page 44: ...4 b DHCP Item Description Hostname Fill in the host name for the DHCP server The default value is empty MAC Clone Use the NIC MAC address of the PC on the LAN side as the MAC address of the WAN interface ...

Page 45: ... Verify Password Fill in the password again for verification Operation Mode Keep Alive Keep the PPPoE connection all the time Also configure the Redial Period field On Demand Configure the Idle Time field When time is up the PPPoE connection will disconnect The connection will re connect when any outgoing packet arises Manual Lets a user connect manually MAC Clone Use the NIC MAC address of a PC o...

Page 46: ...ettings below Dynamic This option allows the machine to get IP address information automatically from the DHCP server on the WAN side IP Address Fill in the IP address for the WAN interface Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for the WAN interface Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface outgoing data packets Operation Mode Keep Alive Keep the L2TP connection all the time Also...

Page 47: ...ettings below Dynamic This option allows the machine to get IP address information automatically from the DHCP server on the WAN side IP Address Fill in the IP address for the WAN interface Subnet Mask Fill in the subnet mask for the WAN interface Default Gateway Fill in the default gateway for WAN interface outgoing data packets Operation Mode Keep Alive Keep the PPTP connection all the time Also...

Page 48: ...ble the DHCP server on LAN side Server Enable the DHCP server on LAN side Lease Time Fill in the lease time of the DHCP server function LLTD Select enable or disable the Link Layer Topology Discover function from the pull down menu IGMP Proxy Select enable or disable the IGMP proxy function from the pull down menu UPNP Select enable or disable the UPnP protocol from the pull down menu DNS Proxy Se...

Page 49: ... Select enable or disable the L2TP passthrough function from pull down menu IPSec Passthrough Select enable or disable the IPSec passthrough function from pull down menu PPTP Passthrough Select enable or disable the PPTP passthrough function from pull down menu ...

Page 50: ...from pull down menu Wireless Band Click to select a wireless band from pull down menu SSID It is the wireless network name The SSID can be 32 bytes long You can use the default SSID or change it Broadcast Network Name SSID Enable or disable the SSID broadcast function AP Isolation Wireless network is similar to the virtual local area network All of the wireless client devices can access each other...

Page 51: ...nu Operating Mode Select Mixed Mode for 11b g n mode or Green Field for 11n mode Channel Bandwidth Select the operating channel width 20 MHz or 20 40 MHz Guard Interval Select Long or Auto Guard intervals are used to ensure that distinct transmissions do not interfere with one another Only works in Mixed Mode MCS Select 0 7 or Auto from the pull down menu The default is Auto Only works in Mixed Mo...

Page 52: ...after the transmission of this beacon frame You can change the value from 1 to 255 The AP will check the buffered data according to this value For example selecting 1 means to check the buffered data at every beacon Fragment Threshold The fragmentation threshold determines the size at which packets are fragmented sent as several pieces instead of as one block Use a low setting in areas where commu...

Page 53: ...radio transmission power For example input 80 to apply 80 Tx power Short Preamble Default Disable It is a performance parameter for 802 11 b g mode and is not supported by some very early stage 802 11b station cards If there is no such kind of station associated with this AP you can enable this function Short Slot It is used to shorten the communication time between this AP and station TX Burst Th...

Page 54: ...54 4 3 4 3 Security a Disable If you set Security Mode to Disable the wireless data transmission will not include encryption to prevent from unauthorized access and monitoring ...

Page 55: ...et Security Mode to OPEN WEP or SHARED WEP fill in the related configurations as below Item Description Default Key Specify a Key number WEP Keys 1 4 When you select WEPAUTO input 5 13 ASCII 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters for WEP Key ...

Page 56: ...56 c WPA PSK WPA2PSK If you set Security Mode to WPAPSK or WPA2 PSK fill in the related configurations as below Item Description WPA Cipher Suite Select TKIP AES or TKIPAES for WPA algorithms ...

Page 57: ...57 Pre Shared Key Fill in a passphrase like test wpa 123 or a hexadecimal string like 65E4 E123 456 E1 Key Renewal Interval Fill in a number for Group Key Renewal interval time d WPA RADIUS WPA2 RADIUS ...

Page 58: ... Port Enter the RADIUS Server s port number provided by your ISP The Default is 1812 Shared Secret Enter the password shared with the RADIUS Server Session Timeout Session timeout interval is for 802 1x re authentication setting Set to zero to disable 802 1x re authentication service for each session Session timeout interval unit is seconds and must be larger than 60 Idle Timeout Enter the idle ti...

Page 59: ...er provided by your ISP The Default is 1812 Shared Secret Enter the password shared with the RADIUS Server Session Timeout Session timeout interval is for 802 1x re authentication setting Set to zero to disable 802 1x re authentication service for each session Session timeout interval unit is seconds and must be larger than 60 Idle Timeout Enter the idle timeout in the column ...

Page 60: ... the drop down menu to choose a wireless access control mode This is a security control function only those clients registered in the access control list can link to this WLAN device Add a station MAC Fill in the MAC address of a client to register this device s access capability ...

Page 61: ...61 4 3 4 4 Site Survey You can configure AP Client parameters here ...

Page 62: ...y will show related information and status AP PIN This shows the AP s PIN Personal Identification Number code that the enrollee should enter to make a connection Click Generate to generate a new AP PIN code Reset OOB Click Reset OOB to reset WPS AP to the OOB out of box configuration WPS mode Select WPS mode PIN Personal Identification Number PBC Push Button Communication PIN Input enrollee s PIN ...

Page 63: ...tination to restrict data transmission Source IP Address Fill in the IP address of the source to restrict data transmission Protocol Select the protocol that you want to restrict There are four options None TCP UDP and ICMP Dest Port Range Fill in the start port and end port number of the destination to restrict data transmission Source Port Range Fill in the start port and end port number of the ...

Page 64: ...mment Make a comment for the filtering policy Item Description Make a mark for the next action Delete Selected Click Delete Selected to delete all that you selected Reset Click Reset to clear selected items ...

Page 65: ...the WAN to a specific IP address hosted in the local network behind the NAT firewall fill in the IP address Port Range To forward data packets coming from the WAN to a specific IP address hosted in the local network behind the NAT firewall fill in the port range Protocol Specify the protocol TCP UDP TCP or UDP Comment Make a comment for the port forwarding policy ...

Page 66: ...n the IP address Public Port To forward data packets coming from the WAN to a specific IP address hosted in the local network behind the NAT firewall fill in the public port Private Port To forward data packets coming from the WAN to a specific IP address hosted in local network behind the NAT firewall fill in the private port Protocol Specify the protocol TCP UDP TCP or UDP Comment Make a comment...

Page 67: ...5 3 DMZ Item Description DMZ Settings Enable or Disable the DMZ function DMZ IP Address To support DMZ in your firewall design fill in the IP address of the DMZ host that can be accessed from the WAN interface ...

Page 68: ...em Description Remote management Select to Deny or Allow the remote management function Ping from WAN Filter Select Disable or Enable to allow pinging from the WAN SPI Firewall Select to Disable or Enable the SPI firewall function ...

Page 69: ...ntent Filtering Item Description Keyword Enter the name of the website you wish to filter Add Click to save the keyword s Delete Click Delete to delete all that you selected Reset Click Reset to clear selected items ...

Page 70: ...ntrol Password Fill in the password for web management login control Current Time It shows the current time Time Zone Select the time zone in your country from the pull down menu NTP Server Fill in the NTP server IP address NTP synchronization Fill in a number to decide the synchronization frequency with the NTP server ...

Page 71: ...der Select the DDNS provider you registered with from the drop down menu Account Fill in the account of the DDNS you registered with Password Fill in the password of the DDNS you registered DDNS Fill in the domain name that you registered ...

Page 72: ...ed Input the uplink maximum upload speed Downlink Speed Input the downlink maximum upload speed Local IP Address Enter the local IP address Uplink Bandwidth Enter the limit upload bandwidth Downlink Bandwidth Enter the limit downlink bandwidth ...

Page 73: ...he firmware 4 3 6 4 Settings Management Item Description Export Button Click Export to export the current configuration to your PC Settings file location Click Browse to select the configuration file from your PC then click Import to update the configuration Load Default Button Click the Load Default button to reset the configuration parameters to factory defaults ...

Page 74: ...74 4 3 6 5 Status This page shows the current status and some basic settings of the device including system info Internet configurations and local network info ...

Page 75: ... 6 System Log This page is used to view system logs Item Description Refresh Click the Refresh button to refresh the log shown on the screen Clear Click the Clear button to clear the log displayed on the screen ...

Page 76: ...e Internet from your computer or host as the Internet protocol thinks of it a correspondence table relates your IP address to your computer s physical MAC address on the LAN To find your PC s IP and MAC addresses Open the Command program in Microsoft Windows Type in ipconfig all then press Enter Your PC s IP address is the one entitled IP Address and your PC s MAC address is the one entitled Physi...

Page 77: ...es file servers printers Internet links they will operate in infrastructure mode Example 1 wireless Infrastructure Mode Ad hoc mode also called peer to peer mode or an Independent Basic Service Set or IBSS is simply a set of 802 11 wireless stations that communicate directly with one another without using an access point or any connection to a wired network This mode is useful for quickly and easi...

Page 78: ...hared key Under open system authentication any wireless station can request authentication The station that needs to authenticate with another wireless station sends an authentication management frame that contains the identity of the sending station The receiving station then returns a frame that indicates whether or not it recognizes the sending station Under shared key authentication each wirel...

Page 79: ...Send Threshold The RTS threshold is the packet size at which packet transmission is governed by the RTS CTS transaction The IEEE 802 11 1997 standard allows for short packets to be transmitted without RTS CTS transactions Each station can have a different RTS threshold RTS CTS is used when the data packet size exceeds the defined RTS threshold With the CSMA CA transmission mechanism the transmitti...

Page 80: ... Fi s original security mechanism Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP was long ago recognized as insufficient for securing confidential business communications Before the long term solution the IEEE 802 11i standard was developed a significant short term enhancement to Wi Fi security was introduced Wi Fi Protected Access To upgrade older WLAN networks to support WPA access points require a WPA software u...

Page 81: ...P for RADIUS request response exchanges It also uses Layer 2 frames to update the forwarding tables of Layer 2 devices 5 21 What is Wireless Distribution System WDS The Wireless Distribution System allows WLAN APs to talk directly to other APs via a wireless channel like the wireless bridge or repeater service 5 22 What is Universal Plug and Play UPnP UPnP is an open networking architecture that c...

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