Configuration
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Security Settings
On no account should you use
Open System
or
Wired Equivalent Privacy
(WEP)
settings
,
whether out of convenience or in order to avoid configuration
problems, unless of course you want to start up an Internet Cafe!
●
Activate the
Wifi Protected Access (WPA)
option.
●
Under
Type
select the “WPA v.2”setting.
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For standard operation select the
Pre-Shared Key
option. Enter a
password in the
Value
input field and leave it set to
Text
. Use a password
with the following characteristics:
– No words or names that can be found in a dictionary
– At least 8 characters long
– It should also include numbers, a mixture of upper and lower case and
special characters
You could also use the
Generate
button
to generate a password. Some
WLAN configuration software does not convert text into hexadecimal
values as a standard procedure. If this is the case, go to the
Hex Value
setting and select the
Generate
button.
●
Leave the
Cipher Length
setting at 256 Bit and the
Distribution Interval
setting at 120 seconds. You will not usually need the settings for
WME
or
for configuring
Multiple SSIDs
for standard operation.
Tip:
If you are running an Internet-Cafe without using powerful
encryption, you should, for the sake of your customers’ security,
prevent them from being able to access each others’ computers.
Activate the
BSS Isolation
option. You can also stop unpleasant
guests from using the system with a
MAC Address Filter
– but
this will not hold up users who know about this function for long.
Configuring for a Remote Location
If you are using a DECTover IP base station in the same LAN as the
Forum 523/524, the IP address configuration and software loading procedure
which are run when a DECTover IP base station is started are handled by the
Forum 523/524 using the DHCP and TFTP protocols.
For the DHCP function to be available, the DECTover IP base station must be
able to reach the Forum 523/524 via a “Broadcast”. In the case of a remote
location this kind of access - via a VPN connection for example - will not be
possible. As in the case of an IP system telephone, you will have to acquire the
