Supported Clients; Ssid; Ip Addressing - Proxim Harmony 802.11b User Manual

Note:
Proxim recommends that you manually assign Channels if you have more than
three Harmony 802.11b Access Points on one network.

Supported Clients

802.11b products can operate at 11 Mbps, 5.5 Mbps, 2 Mbps or 1 Mbps. This allows
802.11b devices to communicate with any existing 802.11 direct sequence devices that
operate only at 1 or 2 Mbps.
By default, the Harmony 802.11b Access Point will support both 802.11b and 2 Mbps
802.11 direct sequence clients. If you want the Harmony 802.11b Access Point to only
support 11 Mbps 802.11b clients, select the 11 Mbps clients only option.

SSID

The SSID is a string of up to 32 ASCII characters that must match on all communicat-
ing 802.11b devices within the same network. SSID stands for Service Set ID. The
SSID is also referred to as the "ESSID" or "Extended Service Set ID."
All Harmony 802.11b Access Points and Harmony 802.11b PC Cards must have the
same SSID to allow a mobile client to roam between Access Points.
By default, the SSID is set to "proxim."

IP Addressing

An Access Point can receive an IP address assignment in one of three ways:
From a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server on the network
From an AP Controller if there is no DHCP server on your network
Manually via the Harmony system's Web browser interface
If you do not have a DHCP server on the network and the AP Controller has not been
assigned a static IP address, then it will assign IP addresses in the 169.254.0.0 network
to the Harmony Access Points.
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