No Wires Needed Parrot 1100, User Manual

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4.2 Quick Start to Wireless Networking
Configuring a Wireless Network for the very first time, involves the following
seven steps:
1. Physically connect the Access Points to the Ethernet LAN. Make sure
they are switched on. The No Wires Needed wireless network will be up
and running immediately. If you are content with the default settings of
the Access Points, you can stop right here. It is more likely however, that
you want to assign different radio frequencies to each Access Point, or
impose some restrictions on the use of your wireless network.
2. To be able to manage the Access Points via SNMP, every Access Point
needs a unique IP address. If you provide a DHCP or BOOTP service on
your LAN (and have sufficient free IP addresses available) this will be
taken care of automatically. If not, please read the section Manually
programming IP addresses.
3. Fire up APCenter™ and configure the Network Settings to reflect your
situation (Use the Edit/Network Settings… menu item). See the section
Network Settings Dialog for details.
4. Create at least one WLAN (Edit/Insert Wireless LAN) and select the
desired security configuration options.
5. Apply the built-in scanning function under Edit/Search Access Points to
collect information about the Access Points. See the section Searching
for Access Points for more information about the scanning function. Drag
the new Access Points to the WLAN of your choice.
6. Select the radio channels of the Access Points according to your cell
plan. See also More about Cells. Add descriptive information about each
Access Point for later reference.
7. Save the configuration information to disk, and commit the new
settings to the Access Points in your network. Using this button.
Note that the actual settings of the Access Points will not be
affected until the Commit to Network function is executed. If you quit
APCenter™, you will be asked to both save and commit.
See Updating Access Point Settings.
You can open the saved configuration file anytime you to make changes to
the network.