You can set to ‘Adhoc’ when you don’t have any wireless
access point, but your computer has wireless network card.
Set to ‘Infrastructure’ when you have wireless access point,
and you have computers with wired network connection.
Available
Networks
Here all wireless access points found by this IP camera are
shown. Please note that sometimes, not all available access
points will be displayed. If the access point you wish to
connect to doesn't appear, you may have to click the
‘Refresh’ button.
The descriptions of all fields is listed below:
Connect: You can select the wireless access point you wish
to connect here.
SSID: the SSID of all found wireless access points will be
shown here. Some wireless access point may hide their
SSID, in this case, you have to identify them by their MAC
address.
MAC Address: If you there are many wireless access points
in proximity or some wireless access point hides it’s SSID,
you can use MAC address to distinguish them.
Signal: Shows the radio signal strength in percent.
Channel: Shows the radio channel of this wireless access
point.
Encryption: Shows the encryption type used by this wireless
access point. You must use the same encryption type if you
wish to connect to a certain wireless access point. If the
wireless access point does not use encryption, ‘Disabled’
will be displayed here.
Network Type: Shows the network type of a certain wireless
access point (Infrastructure or Adhoc).
SSID
Input the SSID of the wireless access point you wish to
connect. It should be less than 32 alphanumerical
characters.
When you select a wireless access point above, it’s SSID
will be filled in this field automatically. However, if the SSID
is not displayed (the wireless access point you selected
choose to hide it’s SSID), you have to know it’s SSID and
input it here, or you will not be able to connect it.
Channel
Select the radio channel you wish to use here. When
network type is ‘Infrastructure’, the radio channel is auto-
selected according to the channel that wireless access point
uses. You can only select the channel number when
network type is ‘Adhoc’.
Basic Rate
Select the maximum wireless data transfer rate here, from
1Mbps to 54Mbps. Maximum transfer rate for 802.11b
wireless network is 11Mbps, and maximum transfer rate for
802.11g wireless network is 54Mbps.
It’s recommended to select ‘Auto’, so the data transfer rate
will vary according to the actual signal strength and quality.
Authentication
Select the wireless authentication here, and this setting
