Manuale d’uso / di manutenzione del prodotto WHA-5500CPE-NT del fabbricante AirLive
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W H A -5500CPE 802.11a Multi-Function Outdoor CPE Use r ’ s Manual.
Declaration of Conformity We, Manufacturer/Importer Declare that the product 802.11a Multi-function Outdoor AP is in conformity with In accordance with 89/336 EEC-EMC Directive and 1999/5 EC-R & T.
AirLive WHA-5500CPE CE Declaration Statement Country Declaration Country Declaration cs Česky [Czech] OvisLink Corp. tímto prohlašuje, že tento Air Live WHA-5500CPE je ve shodě se základními požadavky a dalšími příslušnými ustanoveními směrnice 1999/5/ES.
Regulatory Information Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to co mply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Ru les. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interfer ence in a residential installation.
T able of Contents Table of Contents 1. Introduction ................................................................................................1 1.1 Over view ......................................................................................
T able of Contents 3.4.1 AP Node Settings....................................................................................... 35 3.4.2 Repeater N ode Settings ............................................................................ 37 3.4.3 Repeater Node Local service Se ttings.
1. Introduction 1 1. Introduction 1.1 Overview The WHA-5500CPE is a wireless access-poi nt based on IEEE 802.11a 5-GHz radio technologies. It contains an 802.
1. Introduction Firmware upgradeable. 1.3 Wireless Operation Modes A group of wireless stations co mmunicating with each other is called a Basic Service Set (BSS) and is identified by a unique SSID. When a WHA-5500CPE is used, it can be configured to operat e in the following network configurations.
1. Introduction 1.3.2 Repeater Mode In Repeater mode, the WHA-5500CPE set as a repeater extends the range of wireless LAN. 1.3.3 WDS Bridge Mode When configured to operate in the Wirele ss Distributio.
1. Introduction 1.3.4 Client Infrastructure Mode In Client Infrastructure mode, the WHA-5500CPE is connected to a computer and acts like a wireless station, so that th e computer can wirelessly access the other network’s services, such as Internet. 1.
1. Introduction 1.3.6 WISP Router Mode In WISP Router Mode, WHA-5500CPE is connect ed to several computers and acts like a Client mode AP. With IP sharing function, the computers can share the WISP connection via WHA-5500CPE. 1.4 Set up the device The WHA-5500CPE can be managed remotely by a PC through either the wired or wireless network.
1. Introduction address in a different subnet, dependi ng on the existing network settings (if there is any) or user’s preferences. 1.4.2 AUTOMATIC IP The WHA-5500CPE can also be configured to “ obtain” an IP address automatically from a DHCP server on the network.
2. Install the WHA-5500CPE 2 2. Inst all the 802.1 1 A Access Point This section describes the in stallation procedure for the WHA-5500CPE. It starts with a summary of the content of the package you hav e purchased, followed by steps of how to power up and connect the WHA-5500CPE.
2. Install the WHA-5500CPE 2.2 Hardware Installation Please take the device unit from the color box, a scroll driver, an Ethernet cable with adequate length according to your application.
2. Install the WHA-5500CPE Ste p 6 : Make sure that the other side of Ethernet cable is out of housing. Close the housing. Ste p 5 : Put the Ethernet cable along the module, till the exit (at the bottom of Housing). Ste p 8 : Plug the Ethernet to the PoE “P + DA T A OUT” jack of injector .
2. Install the WHA-5500CPE Step 10 : Plug the Data Ethernet cable to the port “DA T A IN” of injector . Ste p 9 : Plug the power cord of adaptor ER IN” port.
2. Install the WHA-5500CPE 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 Wall mount M- Shaped mounting - 1 pc Lock frame - 1 pc M6-60 scr ew - 2 pcs 9 10 8 7 2 4 6 5 3 1 M6 S/W - 6 pc s M6-16 scr ew - 4 pcs M6 w asher( φ 16mm ) - 4 p cs Antenna body - 1pc M6 washer ( φ 12mm ) - 2 p cs 5"/ 32-16 screw - 4 pcs Plasti c anchor - 4 pcs 2.
2. Install the WHA-5500CPE Pease do not tilt the CPE more than 15 degree angle from vertical. 2.3 Configuration steps This section describes conf iguration required for the WH A-5500CPE before it can work properly in your network.
2. Install the WHA-5500CPE addresses dynamically” will work with the AP , with each other, and with devices on the wired LAN network. 2.4 Set up a wireless client as a DHCP client The following will give detailed steps of how to configure a PC or a wireless client to “obtain IP addresses automatically”.
3. Basic Confi guration This section describes the basic confi guration procedure for the WHA-5500CPE. It describes how to set up the WHA-5500CPE for wireless connections, and the configuration of the local LAN environment. All basic conf igurations may be effected through a standard Web browser such as Microso ft Internet Explorer.
3. Basic Confi guration If you are logging on for the first time, you should use the factory default setting “ airlive ”. The password is always displayed as a string of wildcards or dots. Click the LOG ON button to start the configuration session.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.1.2 DEVICE IP SETTINGS Setup Wizard>> Device IP Settings The Device IP Settings screen allows you to configure t he IP address and subnet of the device.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.1.3 WIRELESS SETTINGS Setup Wizard>>Wireless Settings Network ID (SSID): The SSID is the network name used to identify a wireless network. The SSID must be the same for all devices in t he wireless network (i.e. in the same BSS).
3. Basic Confi guration Security Policy: You can select different security policy to provide association authentication and/or data encryption. WEP Setup Wizard>>Wireless Settings >>Select Security Policy>>WEP WEP allows you to use data encryption to se cure your data from being eavesdropped by malicious people.
3. Basic Confi guration 802.1x allows users to leverage a RADIUS se rver to do association authentications. You can also enable dynamic WEP key (128 bit) to have data encryption. Here you do not have to enter the WEP key manually because it will be gener ated automatically and dynamically.
3. Basic Confi guration WPA-PSK Setup Wizard>>Wireless Settings >>Select Security Policy>>WPA-PSK Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) with Pre-Shared Key (PSK) provides better security than WEP keys.
3. Basic Confi guration WPA2 Setup Wizard>>Wireless Settings >>Select Security Policy>>WPA2 WPA2 stands for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2. It provides stronger data protection and network access control then WPA. Only authorized users can access the wireless networks.
3. Basic Confi guration Encryption Ty pe : There are two encryption types TKIP and CCMP (AES) . While CCMP provides better security than TKIP, some wirel ess client stations may not be equipped with the hardware to support it. You can select Both to allow TKIP clients and CCMP clients to connect to the Access Poin t at the same time.
3. Basic Confi guration WPA-PSK-AUTO tries to authenticate wirele ss clients using WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK. Pre-shared Key : This is an ASCII string with 8 to 63 characters. Please make sure that both the WHA-5500CPE and the wireless cli ent stations use the same key.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.2 Advanced settings The advanced settings tab on the top row of the window allows you to perform modifications that normally you may not need to do for general operations except changing your password from the default factory setting (this is highly recommended for security purposes).
3. Basic Confi guration 3.2.2 SYSTEM MANAGEMENT Advanced Settings>> System Management Clicking the System Management button to configure system re lated parameters to for the WHA-5500CPE. HTTP Port No.: HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.2.3 SNMP Settings Advanced Settings>>SNMP Settings This screen allows you to configure SNMP p arameters including the system name, the location and contact information. System Name: A name that you assign to your 802.1 1a+g Router .
3. Basic Confi guration Assign a specific name and IP address for your SNMP trap manager: A trap manager is a remote SNMP management station where special SNMP trap messages are generated (by the router) and sent to in the network. You can define trap m anagers in the system.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.2.4 MAC FILTERING SETTINGS Advanced Settings>>Mac Filtering Settings The WHA-5500CPE allows you to define a list of MAC addre sses that are allowed or denied to access the wireless network. Disable MAC address control list: When selected, no MAC address filtering will be performed.
3. Basic Confi guration (1) Access Point (2) Repeater (3) WDS Bridge (4) Client Infrastructure (5) Client Adhoc (6) WISP Router 29 AirLive WHA-5500CPE User ’ s Manual.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.3 Access Point Mode Settings Advanced Settings>> Operation Mode>> Access Point Select “Access Point” mode and then press APPL Y button.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.3.1 Wireless Settings Advanced Setting>> Wireless Settings Beacon Interval: The WHA-5500CPE broadcasts beacon fr ames regularly to announce its existence. The beacon Interval specifies how often beacon frames are transmitted in time unit of milliseconds.
3. Basic Confi guration Age Out T imer: Set the age out time. The default is 300 sec. Transmit Power: Transmit power output depends upon the size and RF characteristics because that will determine the number of APs, channels, and need for antennas.
3. Basic Confi guration VLAN: VLAN stands for V irtual Local Area Network. It is a technique allows one or more physical LAN routers or APs to deliver packets as if they were a sing le physical router or AP . DiffServ Marking: Enable DiffServ Marking to have better traf fic prioritization and bandwidth management.
3. Basic Confi guration and Ack-policy . 3.3.4 RADIUS Settings Advanced Settings >> RADIUS Setting RADIUS servers provide centralized authentic ation services to wireless clients. Two RADIUS servers can be defined: one acts as a primary, and the other acts as a backup.
3. Basic Confi guration alphanumeric characters. RADIUS Server Reattempt Period: The number of times the WHA-5500CPE should attempt to contact the prim ary server before giving up Enter the information for a second RADIUS server in case that there are 2 on your network which you are using authent icate wireless clients.
3. Basic Confi guration Setup Wizard>>Wireless settings Select the WLAN mode and c hannel of your choice Click on “APPLY” to finish setup. AirLive WHA-5500CPE User ’ s Manual 36.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.4.2 Repeater Node Settings Advanced Settings>>Operation Mode To set a device as Repeater, the device has to be first defined as repeater operation mode. Select “Repeater” mode and then enter the “Remote SSID”, this is the SSID of AP node’s SSID.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.4.3 Repeater Node Local service Settings Setup Wizard>>Wireless Settings In the Setup Wizard, select the WLAN mode, in this case, only the WLAN mode and SSID can be modified, the channe l will automatically readj usted as the upper node.
3. Basic Confi guration will be fragmented before the tran smission. It should have a va lue of 256-2346 bytes, with a default of 2346 . If you experience a high packet error rate, you should slightly decrease the Fragmentation Threshold. DTIM Interval: The WHA-5500CPE buffers packets for stations that operate in the power-saving mode.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.4.5 QoS Settings Advanced Setting >> QoS Settings QoS stands for Quality of Service which attempt s to provide dif ferent levels of quality to different types of network traf fic. QoS stands for Quality of Service which attempt s to provide dif ferent levels of quality to different types of network traf fic.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.4.6 RADIUS Settings Advanced Setting >> RADIUS Settings RADIUS servers provide centralized authentic ation services to wireless clients. Two RADIUS servers can be defined: one acts as a primary, and the other acts as a backup.
3. Basic Confi guration alphanumeric characters. RADIUS Server Reattempt Period: The number of times t he WHA-5500CPE should attempt to contact the prim ary server before giving up Enter the information for a second RADIUS server in case that there are 2 on your network which you are using authentica te wireless clients.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.5.1 Wireless Settings Advanced Setting >> Wireless Setting RTS Threshold: RTS/CTS frames are used to gain cont rol of the medium for transmission. Any unicast (data or control) frames la rger than specified RTS threshold must be transmitted following the RTS/CTS handshake exchange mechanis m.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.6 Client Infrastructure Mode Settings Advanced Setting>>Operation Mode>> Client Infrastructure Select “Client Infrastructure” mode and then click APPLY button. The client can search for the SSIDs of APs in the environment, in order to select the AP that he wants to make connection with.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.6.1 Wireless Settings Advanced Setting >> Wireless Setting RTS Threshold: RTS/CTS frames are used to gain cont rol of the medium for transmission. Any unicast (data or control) frames la rger than specified RTS threshold must be transmitted following the RTS/CTS handshake exchange mechanism .
3. Basic Confi guration 3.7 Client Adhoc Mode Settings Advanced Setting >> Operation Mode >> Client Adhoc Select “Client Adhoc” mode and then click APPLY button. 3.7.1 Wireless Settings Advanced Setting >> Wireless Settings RTS Threshold: RTS/CTS frames are used to gain cont rol of the medium for transmission.
3. Basic Confi guration Transmit Power: Transmit power output depends upon the size and RF characteristics because that will determine the number of APs, channels, and need for antennas.
3. Basic Confi guration should have a value between 256- 2347 bytes, with a default of 2347 . It is recommended that this value does not deviate from the default too much. Fragmentation: When the size of a unicast frame exce eds the fragmentation threshold, it will be fragmented before the tran smission.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.8.2 WISP Router DHCP Server Settings Advanced Setting >> DHCP server Setting DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuratio n Protocol. The DHCP server dynamically assigns IP addresses (from a pre-defined list) to clients when they l og on.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.8.3 Multiple DMZ Advanced Settings >> Multiple DMZ Select a DMZ type and then enter the local DMZ IP address. Note: A DMZ server is a common term used to describe the default virtual server.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.8.4 Virtual Server Settings Advanced Settings >> Virtual Setting This allows you to specify one or more appl ications running on server computers on the LAN that may be accessed by any Internet us er.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.8.5 Special Applications Advanced Setting >> Special Applications Some Internet application such as Instant Me ssaging or Games in particular use groups of ports, and are not easy to work behind a fi rewall. To work well with these special applications we will open ports to let traffic pass through.
3. Basic Confi guration 3.8.6 IP Filtering Settings Advanced Setting>>IP Filtering Settings IP filtering is simply a mechanism that decides which types of IP datagrams will be processed normally and which will be discarded. This allows you to define rules for allowi ng / denying access from / to the Internet.
3. Basic Confi guration Disable IP filtering: No IP filtering is performed. Grant IP access: Data traffic satisfying rules below are allowed/forwarded.
3. Basic Confi guration Static Routing: This allows you to manually configure static network routes. Stat ic routes will override routes learned by standard routi ng protocol discover methods. IP Routing Table: To delete a static route from the table, select the rout e and click DELETE SELECTED.
3. Basic Confi guration Enter the calculated value of “AckT imeOut” into the appropriate “Ack T i meOut” field (1 1a) in the “Wireless Settings” window .
4. Manage t he WHA-5500C PE 4 4. Manage the WHA-5500CPE This Chapter covers other managem ent aspects of your WHA-5500CPE: Check Device Information View System Log Wireless Client Table .
4. Manage t he WHA-5500C PE 4.2 System Log Device Status >> System Log The WHA-5500CPE maintains a system log that you can use to track events that have occurred in the system. Such event messages can sometimes be helpful in determining the cause of a problem that you may have encountered.
4. Manage t he WHA-5500C PE 4.4 Radio Table Device Status >> Radio Table The Radio Table indicates wireless radio c ounters’ data under one of the six operational modes: Access Point; Repeater; WDS Bridge; Cli ent Infrastructure, Client Adhoc and WISP Router.
4. Manage t he WHA-5500C PE 4.5.1 Signal survey Device Status >> Site Survey >> Signal Survey This is a unique feature from AirLive. It provides real-time signal strength between two nodes. Better signal strength means better alignm ent results, which aims to improve link quality.
4. Manage t he WHA-5500C PE 4.6 Firmware Upgrade System tools >> Firmware Upgrade You can upgrade the firmware of your WHA- 5500CPE (the software th at controls your WHA-5500CPE’s operation).
4. Manage t he WHA-5500C PE 4.7 Configuration Save and Restore System Tools >> Configur ation Save and Restore You can save system configurat ion settings to a file, and later download it back to the WHA-5500CPE by following the steps. Step 1 Select Configuration Save and Restore from the System Tools menu.
4. Manage t he WHA-5500C PE 4.8 Factory Default System Tools >> Factory Default You can reset the configuration of your WH A-5500CPE to the factory default settings. To do it: Step 1 Select Factory Default from the Sy stem Tools menu. Step 2 Click YES to go ahead and restore the configur ation to the factory default.
4. Manage t he WHA-5500C PE Rebooting the WHA-5500CPE would disconnect any active clients and therefore will disrupt any current data traf fic. 4.10 What if you forgot the password? Hardware Reset To .
Specifications 5. Specification s AP Specification Product Name • IEEE WHA-5500CPE OS • Linux® 2.4.18 St andard • IEEE 802.1 1a • IEEE 802.1d S panning T ree • IEEE 802.
Specifications Antenna Specification Frequency range • 5150 MHz - 5875 MHz Gain • 18 dBi VSWR • 2.0 : 1 Max Polarization* • Linear , vertical HPBW/Horizont al • 13.
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