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DeskPoint Pro™ User and Installation Manual TA-6950 TA-7950 TA-8050 Keeping Your World Connected™ 1
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Table of Contents FEATURES......................4
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........................16 YSTEM OOLS ........................16 Ping Arping ........................17 ........................17 Traceroute ......................18 ETTINGS ...
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1. Features The DeskPoint Pro is designed for use in hotel rooms and combines 802.11n, IEEE 802.11g and IEEE 802.11b wireless technology to provide the best wireless performance, enabling client computers to access the resources on the hotel Ethernet network.
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WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) - The DeskPoint Pro supports the WPA standard proposed by the Wi-Fi Alliance (Hhttp://www.wi-‐fi.orgH). Both WPA-PSK (Pre-Shared Key) mode and full WPA mode are supported.
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Configuration backup - The configuration settings can be backed up to a file via HTTP for later restoring.
See Figure 3 to the left. TA-8050 provides an RJ45 jack to be used for offering a wired access point for the guest. Pair a TeleAdapt Pull-Through Pro or other Internet AP product for best presentation to the guest. See Figure 4 to the left.
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2. Installing and Configuring DeskPoint Pro This section offers information about installing your DeskPoint Pro. Before configuring the DeskPoint Pro, you need to know the connection information supplied by your service provider and the field application environment.
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Default User Name and Password The default user name is ‘root’ and the default password is ‘root’. ...
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3. Web Configuration NOTE: All management services on the DeskPoint Pro are restricted so they are only accessible via the Hotel LAN port.
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Menu Structure The left side of the Home page contains a menu for you to carry out commands. Here is a brief description of the hyperlinks on the menu: Summary.
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Access Control - Wireless Access Control settings. Status - System monitoring information. Network Status - Shows the packet counters for transmission and reception regarding to wireless and Ethernet networks.
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Firmware Tools Firmware management operations for the DeskPoint Pro include firmware upgrade, configuration backup (Load Settings), configuration restore (Save Settings), and configuration reset (Load Factory Fig 6.
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Upgrading Firmware by HTTP or TFTP To upgrade firmware of the DeskPoint Pro via HTTP: 1. Click Browse and then select a correct firmware .bin file. The firmware file path will be shown in the Firmware file name text box.
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Fig 20. URL box on IE Browser, use https:// for SSL protection. The setting specifies how long the idle time during which the WEB administrator connection is maintained during inactivity.
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The function will help you to respond to ping requests from a device on Ethernet or Wide Area Network that are sent to LAN IP .
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The Internet is a large and complex aggregation of network hardware, connected together by gateways. Traceroute utilizes the IP protocol time to live field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to some host.
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Periodic Reboot In this section, you can set a time to order the device to reboot itself automatically. ...
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SNMPv3 primarily added security and remote configuration enhancements to SNMP . There are three modes in the Authentication Level. No Auth, Auth and Auth with priv. Only input the User Name in No Auth mode.
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Up to 5 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) traps can be set in the SNMP Trap Table if SNMP V1/V2 is enabled.
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Client Isolation blocks traffic between wired and wireless clients of the DeskPoint Pro. In a hotel environment it is generally desirable to enable this setting to ensure guest privacy. Note however that the DeskPoint Pro will not block traffic between wired and wireless clients connected to different DeskPoint Pro’s, this function must be performed by the network infrastructure.
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When VLAN tagging is enabled then the Hotel LAN port will become an 802.1Q trunk. The Web management (or SNMP), Guest LAN and Primary SSID can all be assigned a VLAN tag to allow the network switch to identify and route tagged connection.
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The wireless interface can be enabled or disabled. By default it is enabled. You can choose one Band as follows: ...
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WMM: The WiFi Multiple Media function is available under 2.4GHz (B), 2.4GHz (G) and 2.4GHz (B+G) band, and is disabled under 2.4GHz (N), 2.4GHz (G+N) and 2.4GHz (B+G+N) band.
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RTS Threshold: Set the RTS Threshold, value can be written between 0 and 2347 bytes. Beacon Interval: The beacon is a periodic packet the DeskPoint Pro sends out on the air to announce its presence and name (SSID).
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Open System - No authentication, no data encryption. Static WEP - WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) keys must be manually configured.
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When WEP is enabled by a security mode, the Key length can be specified to be 64 Bits or 128 Bits.
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Authentication Mode: Select Enterprise (RADIUS) or Personal (Pre-Shared Key) mode. WPA Cipher Suite: here supported AES only. Pre-Shared Key Format: There are two formats for choosing to set the pre-shared key, Passphrase and Hex (64 characters).
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WPA-Mixed Fig 36. WPA-Mixed settings Authentication Mode: Select Enterprise (RADIUS) or Personal (Pre-Shared Key) mode. WPA Cipher Suite: here supported AES only.
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mobile users’ access to its wireless LANs. Before being granted access to a wireless LAN supporting IEEE 802.1x, a user has to issue his or her user name and password or digital certificate to the backend RADIUS server by EAPOL (Extensible Authentication Protocol Over LAN).
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5. Viewing Status Network Status Table Fig 38. Wireless/Ethernet Network Status Table On this page, the Ethernet and wireless transport status are shown.
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System events can be logged to the on-board RAM of the Deskpoint Pro (Local log) or Log Server IP Address to a remote Syslog server, respectively.
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6. Technical Support For North and South American 24/7 Technical Support Toll-Free: 1 877 835 3232 x306 (in US and Canada) Main: 1 775 232 5044 Email: ric.jones@us.teleadapt.com...
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