ABLELink®
AW5300
Wireless Access Point
User’s Manual
Version 1.3
Last Update: February 6, 2009
TEL: 886-3-5508137
FAX: 886-3-5508131
http://www.atop.com.tw
Страница 1: ...ABLELink AW5300 Wireless Access Point User s Manual Version 1 3 Last Update February 6 2009 TEL 886 3 5508137 FAX 886 3 5508131 http www atop com tw...
Страница 2: ...d it is not to be reproduced copied disclosed transmitted stored in a retrieval system or translated into any human or computer language in any form by any means in whole or in part without the prior...
Страница 3: ...m that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help This product complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following tw...
Страница 4: ...ystems 2 6 2 4 FACTORY DEFAULT SETTINGS 2 7 CHAPTER 3 BASIC CONFIGURATION 3 2 3 1 ADMINISTRATOR LOGIN 3 2 3 2 DEVICE OPERATION MODE 3 2 3 3 WIRELESS NETWORK CONFIGURATION 3 3 3 3 1 Basic Wireless Sett...
Страница 5: ...NGS 4 8 4 5 EMAIL SETTINGS 4 8 4 6 DHCP SERVER 4 9 4 7 FIREWALL FILTERING 4 10 4 7 1 Wired MAC Filtering 4 10 4 7 2 Wireless MAC Filtering For Wireless AP and WDS Hybrid Modes Only 4 10 4 7 3 Ethernet...
Страница 6: ...AW5300 Wireless Access Point Table of Contents Copyright 2008 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved LED INDICATORS 5 2 WARRANTY POLICY 5 3...
Страница 7: ...ration Step 2 3 10 Figure 3 16 Regular AP Gateway Mode Configuration Step 3 3 10 Figure 3 17 Regular AP Gateway Mode Configuration Step 4 and 5 3 10 Figure 3 18 Wireless Bridge Mode Configuration Step...
Страница 8: ...12 Figure 4 17 Wireless Client Isolation Settings 4 13 Figure 4 18 User and Password Settings 4 14 Figure 4 19 Date and Time Settings 4 14 Figure 4 20 Alert Event Settings 4 15 Figure 4 21 Firmware U...
Страница 9: ...ss Access Point Table of Tables Copyright 2008 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved Table of Tables Table 2 1 Factory Default Settings 2 8 Table 4 1 Summary of Security Modes in Wireless Security...
Страница 10: ...1 Introduction Copyright 2008 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved 1 1 Chapter 1 Introduction Product Overview Special Features Fast Handoff Smart Routing Wireless Client Isolation Features Order...
Страница 11: ...network as shown in Figure 1 1 The AW5300 Wireless Access Point provides several functionalities to support the mobile and wireless networking AW5300 supports five operation modes Regular AP Regular A...
Страница 12: ...ion This special feature deploys intelligent network isolation to create a virtual network among wireless clients We can prevent the communication among wireless clients into two levels 1 blocking all...
Страница 13: ...hts reserved 1 4 1 4 1 Optional Accessories US315 12 US AC100 240V DC12V US plug USE315 12 EU AC100 240V DC12V EU plug HG055 5 5dBi antenna SMA R Female connector with 180cm cable HG110 11dBi antenna...
Страница 14: ...er 2 Getting Started Inside the Package Front Rear Panels First Time Installation Web Configuration Overview Guide to Select AW5300 Operation Mode Regular AP Mode Regular AP Gateway Mode Wireless Brid...
Страница 15: ...SMA Antenna Connector LED indication for WDS connections 10 100Mbps Ethernet port LED indication Wireless activity LED indication for AP mode LED indication for WDS mode LED indication for system sta...
Страница 16: ...next section for further setting Optionally you can use SerialManager configuration utility in the Product CD to configure AW5300 device Refer to SerialManager user guide for more details Figure 2 2 H...
Страница 17: ...e last step Save and apply the current configuration input on the page On some pages the device may need to reboot Cancel the current configuration input and show the original setting 2 3 2 Guide to S...
Страница 18: ...its coupling AW5300 devices The maximum of concurrent WDS connection is four By installing one AW5300 Wireless Bridge mode at each Ethernet network we can connect all wired clients on those devices L...
Страница 19: ...rd traffics to the networks of its WDS coupling AW5300 devices All wired and wireless clients are hidden behind the AP Each coupling WDS networks are different subnets Figure 2 8 Sample Topology of AW...
Страница 20: ...e example of dynamic WDS systems is mobile equipment stations which have a set of instruments connecting in a cart or a vehicle These stations can provide services for different services on demand Wit...
Страница 21: ...seconds Advanced Settings DTIM Period 3 milliseconds Advanced Settings Tx Power 100 Advanced Settings Fragmentation Threshold 2346 bytes Advanced Settings RTS Threshold 2347 bytes Network Settings LAN...
Страница 22: ...e Time Settings NTP Server pool ntp org Date Time Settings Time Zone GMT Manual Time Settings Date 1 January 2006 Manual Time Settings Time 0 00 00 Alert Event Cold Start Disable Alert Event Warm Star...
Страница 23: ...r Regular Access Point Mode Network Address Settings for Regular AP Gateway Mode Network Address Settings for Wireless Bridge Mode Network Address Settings for Wireless WDS Hybrid Mode Network Address...
Страница 24: ...trator Login On the web browser ex Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox enter the IP address of the device on the URL Example http 10 0 50 200 or http your device IP The authentication scree...
Страница 25: ...nd it will be mostly compatible with all wireless clients The Fast Handoff should be enabled when you want to reduce the hand off time of wireless client devices This feature is only available to Atop...
Страница 26: ...ion The selected key index is used by default when the AW5300 communicates to its wireless clients WPA PSK WPA PSK TKIP Password in passphrase WPA2 PSK WPA2 PSK AES Password in passphrase More advance...
Страница 27: ...ot have the pre defined values of them The IP Address of DNS Server is only needed when you want to connect wireless clients to the Internet Please contact your administrator for the IP address of you...
Страница 28: ...ngs on LAN interface for Wireless Bridge mode 3 4 4 Network Address Settings for Wireless WDS Hybrid Mode The network address setting for the device working in Wireless WDS Hybrid mode without router...
Страница 29: ...gular AP Mode Configuration The configuration flow of the Regular AP Mode is shown below Step 1 On Overview page choose Regular AP operation mode and click Save Settings Step 2 On Basic Settings page...
Страница 30: ...ter 3 Basic Configuration Copyright 2008 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved 3 8 Figure 3 10 Regular AP Mode Configuration Step 1 Figure 3 11 Regular AP Mode Configuration Step 2 Figure 3 12 Reg...
Страница 31: ...eway Mode Configuration Step 1 Step 1 On Overview page choose Regular AP Gateway operation mode and click Save Settings Step 2 On Basic Settings page change the SSID as you wish and click Save Setting...
Страница 32: ...iguration Copyright 2008 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved 3 10 Figure 3 15 Regular AP Gateway Mode Configuration Step 2 Figure 3 16 Regular AP Gateway Mode Configuration Step 3 Figure 3 17 Re...
Страница 33: ...e choose Wireless Bridge and click Save Settings Step 2 On Basic Settings page uncheck the Automatic Channel Select and choose a specific channel This should be similar to that of the peer WDS Click S...
Страница 34: ...Configuration Copyright 2008 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved 3 12 Figure 3 20 Wireless Bridge Mode Configuration Step 3 Figure 3 21 Wireless Bridge Mode Configuration Step 4 Figure 3 22 Wir...
Страница 35: ...ge and click Save Settings Step 2 On Basic Settings page uncheck the Automatic Channel Select and choose the channel This should be similar to that of a peer WDS Click Save Settings Step 3 On Security...
Страница 36: ...er 3 Basic Configuration Copyright 2008 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved 3 14 Figure 3 24 WDS Hybrid Mode Configuration Step 2 Figure 3 25 WDS Hybrid Mode Configuration Step 3 Figure 3 26 WDS...
Страница 37: ...the Automatic Channel Select and choose the channel This should be similar to that of a peer WDS Step 3 On the same page change the SSID Network Name if you desire and click Save Settings Step 4 On Se...
Страница 38: ...iguration Copyright 2008 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved 3 16 Figure 3 28 WDS Hybrid Gateway Mode Configuration Step 1 Figure 3 29 WDS Hybrid Gateway Mode Configuration Step 2 and 3 Figure 3...
Страница 39: ...iguration Copyright 2008 Atop Technologies Inc All rights reserved 3 17 Figure 3 31 WDS Hybrid Gateway Mode Configuration Step 5 Figure 3 32 WDS Hybrid Gateway Mode Configuration Step 6 Figure 3 33 WD...
Страница 40: ...tings in System Setup 3 7 Upgrading Firmware Once in a while you may need to upgrade the access point s firmware for bug fixes or new features To upgrade the firmware go to System Setup menu and selec...
Страница 41: ...device 3 8 Restore to Factory Default In some case that you forget the administrator password or wrongly configure some parameters you may want to reset the device to factory default settings To do s...
Страница 42: ...etwork Settings LAN Interface WDS Interface SNMP Settings Email Settings DHCP Server Firewall Filtering Wired MAC Filtering Wireless MAC Filtering For Wireless AP and WDS Hybrid Modes Only Ethernet Ty...
Страница 43: ...eless Settings In Wireless Settings there are basic settings Security settings Advanced settings and specific settings such as WDS settings for Wireless Bridge and WDS Hybrid modes 4 2 1 Basic Setting...
Страница 44: ...le the SSID Broadcast When the SSID Broadcast is disabled you must enter the SSID on a mobile station manually to connect to this device Wireless Mode The device can operate in different wireless mode...
Страница 45: ...ryption type any data transmitted over the wireless link is encrypted with the WEP key using RC4 encryption algorithm WPA Mode The Wi Fi Protected Access WPA mode is a new security mode that fixed the...
Страница 46: ...Hybrid operation mode provides the ability to connection local device both wired and wireless to another wireless network The configuration of WDS Settings is shown in Figure 4 5 The device can conne...
Страница 47: ...nterface The device may get an IP address from DHCP server connected on the LAN interface To check Obtain an IP Address Automatically the device will get an IP Address automatically Manual Settings Th...
Страница 48: ...k Settings for LAN WLAN Interface 4 3 2 WDS Interface In WDS Hybrid operation mode the device will be act as a router to be part of the WDS networks Enable Router Mode to setup a WDS network as shown...
Страница 49: ...nter private in Write Community In some case that the device raises an alert due to some incidents a trap an unsolicited message sent by SNMP Agent to SNMP trap server To set up a SNMP Trap Server fil...
Страница 50: ...address to mobile clients or any computer To enable such functionality you check DHCP Enabled Then you need to fill in the IP Address Range including the From IP Address and To IP Address Then fill in...
Страница 51: ...ring provides the filter to allow or to deny packets to go through Wired or LAN Ethernet interface To enable the Wired MAC Filtering select Only allow MAC Address or Only deny MAC Address and fill in...
Страница 52: ...the associated network To enable this filtering select the Only allow MAC address or Only deny MAC address Then enter Ethernet type and Protocol of the packet you want to allow or to deny Then select...
Страница 53: ...ing Then select the Interface to which the filter is applied The enable or disable each filter you can check or uncheck the mark in front of the line of the filter Figure 4 15 IP Network Type Filterin...
Страница 54: ...Blocking This feature is disabled The wireless access point does not isolate wireless clients Hence it allows any communication among all wireless clients This AP Only This allows any associated wire...
Страница 55: ...manually set up Date and Time or you can use Network Time Protocol NTP to synchronize the time of the device with a Time Server To synchronize time automatically check Obtain an date time automatical...
Страница 56: ...nts in which the SNMP Server can trap as shown in Figure 4 20 Figure 4 20 Alert Event Settings 4 8 4 Firmware Upgrade In a meanwhile we may provide a new firmware in form of a file for the device that...
Страница 57: ...settings The backup can also be used to set other similar devices without going through several configuration steps To backup your configuration click Backup and a pop up dialog is prompt for saving t...
Страница 58: ...ded performance It will take a while for the Site Monitor function to gather information of the surrounding wireless networks Figure 4 24 Site Monitor Snapshot 4 9 2 Mobile Table When the device is wo...
Страница 59: ...It shows the MAC address of the interface and the number of received and transmitted packets as well as the current transmission rate of the wireless link Figure 4 26 WDS Table shows the status of th...
Страница 60: ...esses using DHCP protocol The list shows mobile stations MAC addresses IP addresses Type and Status Figure 4 28 DHCP Status Snapshots 4 10 Reboot and Restore Default Settings To manually reboot the de...
Страница 61: ...3 dBm Rx Sensitivity 66 dBm 54 Mbps 80 dBm 11Mbps 802 11b g Outdoor Range 980 ft 300 m Antenna Connector Reverse SMA Topologies Infrastructure Ethernet 802 3u 10 100BaseTX Ethernet LAN Protection Buil...
Страница 62: ...modes WLAN Blinking Green There is on going traffic over WLAN interface WDS1 4 Steady Green Show the WDS connection is established The device can be operated into one of five modes Regular AP Regular...
Страница 63: ...top before shipping the goods to be repaired to Atop When in normal use a sold product shall be replaced with a new one within 3 months after purchase The shipping cost from the customer to Atop will...
