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  • Page 2: Copyright Statement

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Copyright Statement is the registered trademark of Shenzhen Tenda Technology Co., Ltd. All the products and product names mentioned herein are the trademarks or register- ed trademarks of their respective holders. Copyright of the whole product as integration, including its accessories and software, belongs to Shenzhen Tenda Technology Co.,...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Contents Chapter 1 Introdution ----------------------------------------------1 1.1 Product Features ............1 1.2 Package contents ............2 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation ------------------------------------3 Chapter 3 Configuration ---------------------------------------------5 3.1 Log in ............... 5 3.2 Wizard ..............6 3.3 Status............... 9 3.4 LAN Setting ..............11...

  • Page 4: Chapter 1 Introdution

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Chapter 1 Introdution W54A is fully compliant with IEEE802.11g/b standards. It can help you extend from the wired network to the wireless network, free from the cabling troubles. It is the best choice for SOHO and small enterprise users.

  • Page 5: Package Contents

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Supports Web management utility and easy Setup Wizard Supports 64/128-bit WEP data encryption Supports WPA, TKIP, AES, WPA2, WPA&WPA2 encryptions and security mechanism Supports IEEE802.11b/IEEE802.11g Auto-negotiation and manual configuration modes Supports Auto MDI/MDIX Supports Firefox1.0，IE5.5 or above...

  • Page 6: Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Chapter 2 Hardware Installation This chapter explains how to connect the Access Point (take the AP mode installation as example, other installation modes please refer to the Quick Installation Guide). The detailed processes are shown as below: 1.
  • Page 7 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide The topology plan of AP mode connection...

  • Page 8: Chapter 3 Configuration

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Chapter 3 Configuration Now that you’ve connected the AP to your wired network, you are ready to begin setting it up. This chapter will take you through all the steps necessary to configure your AP.

  • Page 9: Wizard

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Click Ok; the welcome screen will appear; Click Next and Wizard screen will appear. On the screen, there are five different operating modes including W54A—AP, WDS P2P Bridge, WDS P2MP Bridge, WDS AP Repeater and the client. The specific setting for each mode will be showed below.
  • Page 10 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide If the wizard page hasn’t appeared, you can also click the wizard tab on the left to active. For different requirements, you can select one of the suitable operating modes. Here, we’ll take AP mode as example to introduce the settings method.
  • Page 11 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide the previous screen. Then you’ll see the security setting screen. You can select the different level of security: Authentication: WEP_Open System/Share Key, WPA, WPA2, and WPA_WPA2_Mixed Key Type: Select ASCII or Hex format. Key Size: 64-bit or 128-bit (Note: If you select 64-bit, please enter 10 Hexadecimal characters or 5 ASCII Characters for the key content.

  • Page 12: Status

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Table 1: Wireless Security Mode WPA2 WPA_WPA2_Mi Repeater P2MP Client Note: After clicking Apply to save your settings, you have to reboot the device (From System Tools—Reboot) to let your settings take effect. 3.3 Status...
  • Page 13 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Product information: Display current firmware version, MAC Address, LAN IP Address, subnet mask, Gateway etc. Radio Status: Current mode, SSID, RF mode, Channel and Encryption mode etc. Association Table: Display the clients’ information of connecting with the AP including the MAC address, status, mode, rate, signal quality and RSSI.

  • Page 14: Lan Setting

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide 3.4 LAN Setting From LAN Setting Screen, we can set the LAN port’s network parameters Manual: if you want to assign a static or fixed IP address to the AP, then select this, and enter the specified IP address (The default IP is 192.168.0.254), Subnet mask, and Gateway...

  • Page 15: Chapter 4 Radio Setting

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Chapter 4 Radio Setting 4.1 Basic Setting Click Radio Setting—Basic Setting tab. This screen requires you to set the basic parameters for your wireless network. SSID: Enter the name of your wireless network. SSID Broadcast: Enable/disable the SSID broadcast...

  • Page 16: Mode Setting

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Rate selection for B: Selects the transmission rate of B mode, auto or a fixed rate,11/5.5/2/1Mbps Rate selection for G: Selects the transmission rate of G mode, auto or a fixed rate, 54/48/36/24/18/12/11/9/ 6/5.5/2/1Mbps Channel: Select the operating channel for your wireless network, auto or fixed, range from1-13.
  • Page 17 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Here, we can see the W54A supports 5 operating modes, which will be introduced respectively. 4.2.1 AP mode The AP mode is the basic mode of the device. When the system is reset to the default factory settings, the operating mode reverts to AP mode.
  • Page 18 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Figure 1 Click Mode Setting tab and select AP, the following screen will appear.
  • Page 19 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide SSID: The name of your wireless network. Channel: The operating channel Encryption: Select disable WEP, WPA, WPA2, WPA_WPA2 Mixed mode for security. Click Apply to save your settings. 4.2.2 WDS P2P Bridge In this mode, 2 APs in two remote locations connect with each other to provide a wireless bridge between 2 remote LANs, as shown in Figure 2.
  • Page 20 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Figure 2 Click Mode Setting tab and select WDS P2P Bridge, the following screen will appear.
  • Page 21 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide SSID: The name of your wireless network. Channel: The operating channel WDS remote AP MAC List: Enter MAC addresses whose remote device need to connect. (Also you can obtain MAC address for copying or entering manually by the scan.) Encryption: support only WEP mode for security.
  • Page 22 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Click Mode Setting tab and select WDS P2MP bridge, the following screen will appear. SSID: The name of your wireless network. Channel: The operating channel WDS remote AP List: MAC addresses of the P2P Bridge that are connected to this P2MP Bridge.
  • Page 23 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide or entering manually by the scan.) Encryption: support only WEP mode for security. Click Apply to save your settings. 4.2.4 WDS AP Repeater A repeater is placed between an AP and a client to extend the distance between the two WLAN devices.
  • Page 24 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide SSID: The name of your wireless network. Channel: The operating channel WDS mode: Dynamic key or Static key; At least one of the two associated repeater should be set as static key. If selecting dynamic key for one repeater, you don’t have to fill the other...

  • Page 25: Client Mode

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide 4.2.5 Client mode When Client mode is selected, the W54A associates with another AP within its range. The device behaves like a wireless network adapter. Figure 5 shows the Client mode W54A as a wireless client in infrastructure mode.

  • Page 26: Access Filter

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide SSID: The wireless network’s name you want to associate with. Channel: The operating channel of the wireless network. MAC Addr: The MAC address of the wireless network. Scan: you can through the scan function to display exit wireless network of the neighborhood, and click Add to establish connection with it.
  • Page 27 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Click Radio setting---Access Filter tab, the follow screen will appear. The Access filter page allows you to configure the AP to allow or block association with itself based on the MAC address of clients. Up to 32 MAC addresses can be added to the list.

  • Page 28: Chapter 5 System Tools

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Chapter 5 System Tools Click System Tools tab, there are 5 submenus-----Change password, Firmware upgrade, Reboot, Restore factory and Restore/Backup Setting. 5.1 Change Password To change the password, enter the new password in the new password and Confirm New password fields.
  • Page 29 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide the new firmware has the features you want to use. To upgrade the AP’s firmware: Download the firmware file from our website: www.tenda.cn. Extract the firmware file on your computer. On the Firmware Upgrade screen, enter the location directory of the firmware file in the field provided, or click the Browse button and find the file.

  • Page 30: Reboot

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide 5.3 Reboot Reboot the AP to make the configured settings effective. Before rebooting is completed, the AP will disconnect automatically. 5.4 Restore Factory Default That will erase all of your settings (including wireless security, current working mode, etc), and restore to the factory defaults.

  • Page 31: Restore/Backup Setting

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide 5.5 Restore/Backup Setting On this page you can create a backup setting file or save the configured setting to the AP. Export: To save a backup setting file on your computer, click the Export button and follow the on-screen instructions.

  • Page 32: Help

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide 5.7 Help Click the Help button to get more information about the AP’s settings and applications.

  • Page 33: Appendix I: Glossary

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Appendix I: Glossary Access Point(AP): Any entity that has station functionality and provides access to the distribution services, via the wireless medium(WM) for associated stations. Channel: An instance of medium use for the purpose of passing...
  • Page 34 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide wireless network. The 40bit and 64bit encryption are the same because of out 64 bits, 40 bits are private. Conversely, 104 and 128 bit are the same. WEP uses a common KEY to encode the data.
  • Page 35 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide WPA security and provides a stronger encryption mechanism through Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which is a requirement for some government users.

  • Page 36: Appendix Ii: Tcp/Ip Address Setting (Take Winxp As Example)

    W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Appendix II: TCP/IP Address Setting (Take Winxp as example) Click the “Start—>Settings—>Control Panel” (Fig- 1): Fig-1 Click “Network and Internet Connections”, the windows as below will appear (Fig- 2): Fig- 2...
  • Page 37 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Click the “Network Connections”, as Fig-3: Fig-3 Choose “Local Area Connection”, right-click on the icon, choose the “Properties”, then the “Local Area Connection Properties”windows appear, choose the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” in the “This connection uses the following items”, click the “Properties”.
  • Page 38 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Fig- 4 Choose the “Use the following IP address”, enter the IP address as: 192.168.0.xxx. (xxx ranges 1~253), Subnet mask is: 255.255.255.0(As Showed in Fig- 5)
  • Page 39 W54A 54M Wireless AP User Guide Fig- 5 Click “OK” to apply and return to the “Local Area Connection Properties” windows. Continue click “OK” to exit the setting windows.

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