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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Netis WF-2301 150Mbps Wireless N Outdoor AP User Manual 1141 Budapest, Fogarasi út 77. 1095 Budapest, Mester u. 34. Tel.: *220-7940, 220-7814, 220-7959, Tel.: *218-5542, 215-9771, 215-7550, 220-8881, 364-3428 Fax: 220-7940 216-7017, 216-7018 Fax: 218-5542...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Certification FCC CE FCC Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Contents INTRODUCTION ........................6 ......................6 RODUCT VERVIEW ........................6 EATURES ................7 UPPORTING TANDARD AND ROTOCOL ....................7 ORKING NVIRONMENT HARDWARE INSTALLATION ....................8 ....................... 8 YSTEM EQUIREMENT ..........................8 ANEL ................9 ESTORE TO ACTORY ONFIGURATION...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4.3.1.7 Advanced .......................... 44 4.3.2 Multiple AP Setup ..................... 45 LED T .................... 46 IRELESS HRESHOLDS LAN S ........................46 ETUP 4.5.1 LAN IP Address ......................46 4.5.2 DHCP Server ......................47 4.5.3 DHCP Client Info ..................... 47 &...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 1 Introduction 1.1 Product Overview Outdoor AP is dedicated to district Wireless network solution , operating in the 2.4GHz frequency band, complies with IEEE802.11n technical standards, data transfer rate up to 150Mbps, the output power of up to 500mA. With all kinds of outdoor antenna for use, cover range, the Long-distance transmission.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 2 Hardware Installation 2.1 System Requirement Minimum Requirements: Ø Broadband Internet access service (DSL / Cable / Ethernet) Ø Internet Explorer® 5.0, Firefox® 2.0 or Safari® 1.4 or higher for Web configuration Ø 802.11nÿ 802.11g or 802.11b compliant wireless adapters (for wireless connection) Ø...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 2-3 Function Power on Power off Connection normal Abnormal Flashing Data transmitting Power supply normal Abnormal 4 light signal strength above 75% 3 light signal strength medium Flashing Less than 2 light signal strength is weak.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 2.4 Hardware Installation Procedures The procedures to install the 150Mbps outdoor AP please refer to Figure 2- Figure 2-4 Ø Step 1 connecting Cable/ADSL Modem to the WAN port. Attach one end of an Ethernet cable to your modem’s Ethernet port, and the other end to one of the WAN ports of your router.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 3 Login You can manage the 150Mbps AP through the Web browser-based configuration utility. To configure the device via Web browser, at least one properly configured computer must be connected to the device via Ethernet or wireless network. The 150Mbps AP is configured with the default IP address of 192.168.1.1 and subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and its DHCP server is enabled by default.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 3.1.2 Windows 2000 Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start à Settings à Control Panel Figure 3-1 2. Double click the icon Network and Dial-up Connections 3. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-2 4. Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then press Properties button Figure 3-3 5. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-4 6. Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window Figure 3-5 3.1.3 Windows XP Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start à Settings à Control Panel...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 2. Click Network and Internet Connections Figure 3-6 3. Click Network Connections Figure 3-7 4. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-8 5. Highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then press Properties button Figure 3-9 6. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-10 7. Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window Figure 3-11...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 3.1.4 Windows Vista Please follow the steps below to setup your computer: 1. Go to Start à Settings à Control Panel 2. Click Network and Sharing Center Figure 3-12 3. Click Manage Network Connections Figure 3-13 4.
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-14 5. Highlight Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IP) and then press Properties button...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-15 6. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-16 7. Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-17 3.1.5 Windows 7 Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer: Go to Start!’ Control Panel!’ Network and Internet. Click Network and Sharing Center!’ Change adapter settings. Highlight the icon Local Area Connection, right click your mouse, and click Properties. Highlight Internet Protocol version 4 (TCP/IPv4).
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-18 Figure 3-19...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Choose Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, and then press the OK to close the window. Figure 3-20 Press OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window. 3.1.6 MAC OS Please follow the steps blow to setup your computer: Go to Start!’...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-21 Click Network, Select Use DHCP at the Configuration bar, the system will get the IP address automatically.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-22 Press Apply to complete this operation and close the window. 3.2 Checking Connection with the Adapter After configuring the TCP/IP protocol, use the ping command to verify if the computer can communicate with the AP. To execute the ping command, open the DOS window and Ping the IP address of the 150Mbps Outdoor AP at the DOS prompt: Ø...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual C:\Documents and Settings\admin>ping 192.168.1.1 Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64 Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 3.3 Login Ø Open a web browser (Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.) on the computer you have just connected to the AP, type http://192.168.1.1 in the address bar, and press Enter Figure 3-23 Ø In the pop-up window, enter the user name guest and password guest and then click OK Figure 3-24 Ø...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 3-25...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4 System Setting 4.1 System Information This feature provides running status information and detailed information about router. 4.1.1 System This item provides current running information of System. Figure 4-1 4.1.2 LAN Info This item provides information about router’s LAN port, display LAN port’s physical address, IP address and current situation of DHCP server.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4.1.3 Wireless Info This item provides current running information of wireless. Figure 4-3 Ø Wireless status: Display wireless interface status is enabled or not Ø Wireless Mode : Current wireless mode of wireless router Ø...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4.1.5 Statistics This item provides statistics information about the bits router sends and received. Figure 4-5 4.2 System Log Figure 4-6 View the system log. You can set the number of records per page, default is 10.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Ø Channel width: This switch allows you to set Router's wireless bandwidth. 20MHz: In this mode you can get low bandwidth, little interference and slow rate. 40MHz: In this mode you can get high bandwidth, high interference and rapid rate. Use only when you have a pure router, draft 802.11n wireless network.
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4.3.1.2.2 WEP Figure 4-9 Ø Key Length: There are two basic levels of WEP encryption, 64 bits and 128 bits, the more bits password have, the better security wireless network is, at the same time the speed of wireless is more slower.
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4.3.1.2.3 WPA-PSK Figure 4-10 Ø Encryption type: You can select the algorithm you want to use, TKIP, AES or TKIP&AES. TKIP means “Temporal Key Integrity Protocol”, which incorporates Message Integrity Code (MIC) to provide protection against hackers. AES, means “Advanced Encryption System”, which utilizes a symmetric 128-Bit block data.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 4-11 4.3.1.2.5 WPA/WPA2-PSK This item mixed WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK mode, which provides higher security level; you can configure it according with WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK. Figure 4-12 4.3.1.3 WDS If you have selected WDS or AP+WDS mode in Wireless Basic-Radio Mode, please do the following configurations.
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 4-13 Ø WDS Name: Give a description of your wireless bridge to tell apart. Ø WDS MAC Address: If the current working mode is “WDS” or “AP+WDS”, then you need to configure wireless bridge configuration. Enter MAC address of remote access point, at the same time the remote access point also need to configure to “WDS”...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Ø Click on ‘Wireless Management’- ‘AP Setup’- ‘Security’ and select and save None as WDS authentication type or select a WDS security type, enter key and save. Ø Input WDS name (e.g.: default), input MAC address of AP2 (00-22-4f-bc-af-5d), click add, then the record named default will appears in WDS list.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual **-**-**-**-**-**ÿ e.g.: 00-22-33-da-cc-bbÿ . Follow the following steps to set Wireless Access Control: 1. Enable Wireless Access Control, then select save. 2. Add MAC address you want to control in the “MAC address” field (the format is **-**-**-**-**-**), then click “Add”...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 4-17 Ø WPS Status: you can use this function to setup the wireless connection between this router and wireless network card. The default is disable. Ø AP PIN Code: this code can mark a wireless product Ø...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 2. Push the ‘PIN Input Config (PIN)’ in the Wi-Fi protect setup of the adapter Figure 4-20 3. Select this AP in the pop-up window, then click ‘Select’ Figure 4-21 4. Please wait until the following window appears, the connect between the adapter and the AP will connect automatically...
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150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 4-22 Method 2: 1. Click ‘connect’ in the router’s WPS PBC configure page Figure 4-23 2. Push the ‘Push button Config (PBC)’ in the Wi-Fi protect setup of the adapter until the following picture appears Figure 4-24 3.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4.3.1.7 Advanced These settings are only for more technically advanced users who have a sufficient knowledge about wireless LAN. These settings should not be changed unless you know what effect the change will have on your AP. Figure 4-25 Ø...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual access .The default setting is “Auto” and you can set this value between 1-54Mbps range. Ø ShortGi: You can select “Enable” or “disable” for shortgi. Ø Protection: Using 802.11b and 802.11g mixed mode may result in poor network performance. By enabling 802.11 protection, it will ameliorate performance of 802.11g devices in your wireless network.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4.4 Wireless LED Thresholds Figure 4-29 Please set the AP to the external LED lights and wireless signal strength received correspondence, when the AP receives the wireless signal, according to the wireless signal strength, the corresponding LED will be lit.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4.5.2 DHCP Server Figure 4-31 Ø DHCP Server Status: Keep the default setting “Enable”, so router is able to use DHCP function. If a DHCP server has already existed in the network, please select “Disable”. Ø...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 4.6 Applications & Game 4.6.1 UPnP The UPnP function supports load Application’s port forward record automatically. Select “Enable” to enable this function. Figure 4-33 4.7 Routing Most of AP and wireless router are using NAT mode, so this feature is designed for most common network environment.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual item existed in routing table. 4.8 System Management System management includes password setup, upgrade, reboot, restore, WOL and System time 4.8.1 Password Setup The default username/password is guest/guest. To ensure the AP’s security, it is suggested that you change the default password to one of your choice, here enter a new password and then Re-enter it again to confirm your new password.
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual Figure 4-37 4.8.4 Restore Click "Restore" button, the Router will erase all of your settings and replace them with the factory defaults, make sure you have backup current settings before click this button. Figure 4-38 4.8.5 WOL Input host MAC address, and then click button of "Wake up"...
150Mbps Wireless-N Outdoor AP User Manual 5 Troubleshooting 1. I cannot access the Web-based Configuration Utility from the Ethernet computer used to configure the AP. Ø Check that the LAN LED is on. If the LED is not on, verify that the cable for the LAN connection is firmly connected.
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