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  • Page 1 TRENDnet User’s Guide Table of Contents...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    TRENDnet User’s Guide Table of Contents Extra Information ..................... 25 Contents Event Log ........................26 WDS Mode Configuration..................26 Introduction ......................4 External Network Connection ..................26 Package Contents ......................4 Hardware Feature ......................5 Network Requirement ..................... 26 Configure LAN IP ...................... 27 System Concept......................
  • Page 3 TRENDnet User’s Guide Table of Contents System Overview ...................... 47 Remote AP status ..................... 68 DHCP Client ......................48 System Management ................... 68 Extra Information ..................... 48 Configure Management ................... 68 Event Log ........................49 Configure System Time .................... 70 Associated Client List ....................

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction Multiple SSIDs Create up to seven additional SSIDs Compatibility TRENDnet’s 10 dBi Outdoor PoE Access Point, model TEW-738APBO, Compatible with legacy wireless devices provides Wireless N300 building-to-building connectivity for clear line of Mounting Hardware sight distances of up to 8 km (5 miles)*. A variety of installation scenarios...

  • Page 5: Hardware Feature

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Hardware Feature Bottom Panel Front Panel LAN/WLAN/PWR PoE Port Housing LEDs Reset Button • LED o LAN: Turns on when there is a LAN connection and blinks when data is running through the LAN port. o WLAN: Turns on when wireless is enabled and blinks during wireless transmission occur.

  • Page 6: System Concept

    TEW-738APBO System Concept The TEW-738APBO is not only designed and used as a traditional outdoor AP, but also with rich features tailored for WISP applications. The two-level management capability and access control ease WISP and owners to maintain and manage wireless network in a more controllable fashion.

  • Page 7: Product Benefit

    Installation Product Benefit 1. Unscrew the black cap covering the PoE port of the TEW-738APBO The 10 dBi Outdoor PoE Access Point is the point of connection to Wireless Outdoor 2. Install the waterproof kit and insert one end of an Ethernet cable through the kit.

  • Page 8: Configuration

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO 6. Using another Ethernet cable, connect one end to the DATA IN port of the injector. Configuration 1. Open a web browser, type the IP address of the Access Point and then press Enter. The default IP address is 192.168.10.100.

  • Page 9: Applications

    Example 2: Access Point with WDS • It can be deployed as a tradition fixed wireless Access Point and provides WDS link TEW-738APBO is multiple mode system which can be configured either as a wireless to expand network gateway or an access point as desired. It also can be used as a WDS link for Ethernet network expansion.

  • Page 10: Wds Mode (Pure Wds)

    Example 2 : Point-to-Multi-Point service to new residential and business customers. In this mode, TEW-738APBO is enabled with DHCP Server functions. The wired clients of TEW-738APBO are in the same subnet from Main Base Station and it accepts wireless connections from client devices.

  • Page 11: Cpe + Ap Mode (Router Client + Access Point)

    TEW-738APBO supports web-based configuration. Upon the completion of hardware wireless signal over the last mile, helping WISPs deliver wireless broadband Internet installation, TEW-738APBO can be configured through a PC/NB by using its web browser service to new residential and business customers. In this mode, theTEW-738APBO such as Internet Explorer version 6.0.

  • Page 12: Ap Mode Configuration

    Normally, TEW-738APBO connects to a wired LAN and provides a wireless connection point to associate with wireless client as shown in Figure 3-1. Then, Wireless clients could access to LAN or Internet by associating themselves with TEW-738APBO set in AP mode.
  • Page 13 LAN interface and 4 WDS interfaces from wds0 to wds3. The Spanning Tree Protocol, which is also referred to as STP, is defined in the IEEE Standard 802.1d. The Spanning tree always enabled on TEW-738APBO. Below Figures depict a loop for a bridged LAN between LAN and WDS link Click Save button to save your changes.
  • Page 14 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Remote Base Station LOOP Blocked by Spanning Tree Protocol Remote Base Station Remote Base Station Blocked by LOOP Spanning Tree Protocol Remote Base Station Base Station © Copyright 2014TRENDnet. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 15: Wireless Lan Network

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Wireless LAN Network The network manager can configure related wireless settings, General Settings, Advanced Settings, Virtual AP (VAP) Setting, Security Settings and MAC Filter Settings. Wireless General Setup The administrator can change the data transmission, channel and output power settings for the system.
  • Page 16 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO will start to “Resend” packet before ACK is received, and throughputs become low due to excessively high re-transmission. ACK Timeout is best determined by distance between the radios, data rate of average environment. The Timeout value...

  • Page 17: Wireless Wmm Qos Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Synchronization field. The preamble is used to signal "here is a train of data coming" queue (FTP data, for example). to the receiver. The short preamble provides 72-bit Synchronization field to improve WLAN transmission efficiency with less overhead.
  • Page 18 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO interval of time when the WMM AP has the right to initiate transmissions on the milliseconds) for data frames wireless network. CWmin: Minimum Contention Window. This parameter is input to the ACM: Admission Control Mandatory, ACM only takes effect on AC_VI and AC_VO.
  • Page 19 Create Virtual AP (VAP) The administrator can view all of the Virtual AP's settings via this page. The TEW-738APBO support broadcasting multiple SSIDs, allowing the creation of Virtual Please click on Wireless -> Virtual AP Setup and the Virtual AP Overview Page appears.
  • Page 20 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO are Disable, WEP, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, WPA-Enterprise, WPA2-Enterprise and Virtual AP Setup WEP 802.1X. For each Virtual AP, administrators can configure SSID, VLAN tag(ID), SSID broadcasting, Disable: Data are unencrypted during transmission when this option is selected.
  • Page 21 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Master Key Update Period: By default, it is 83499 seconds. This time interval for Radius Server Settings : • rekeying GTK, broadcast/multicast encryption keys, in seconds. Entering the time- IP Address: Enter the IP address of the Authentication RADIUS server.

  • Page 22: Wireless Mac Filter Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Wireless MAC Filter Setup Wireless Network Expansion The administrator could create WDS Links to expand wireless network. When WDS is Continue Virtual AP Setup section. For each Virtual AP setting, the administrator can allow or reject clients to access each Virtual AP.

  • Page 23: System Status

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO enabled. Host Description: A description of the system. WEP Key: Enter 5 / 13 ASCII or 10 / 26 HEX format WEP key. Firmware Version: The current installed firmware version. TKIP Key: Enter 8 to 63 ASCII or 64 HEX format TKIP key.
  • Page 24 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Wireless Information: Display total received and transmitted statistics on available Enterprise. • Virtual AP. Clients: Display total number of wireless connections for each VAP. VAP Clients: Display all associated clients on each Virtual AP. • MAC Address: MAC address of associated clients WiFi: Wireless status of the access point.

  • Page 25: Extra Information

    • to display MAC table. to display route table. TEW-738APBO could be used as a L2 or L3 device. It doesn’t support dynamic routing protocols such as RIP or OSPF. Static routes to specific hosts, networks or default gateway are set up automatically according to the IP configuration of system's interfaces.

  • Page 26: Network Requirement

    External Network Connection Network Requirement You could expand your Ethernet network via WDS link. In this mode, the TEW-738APBO connects directly to a wired LAN, and wirelessly bridges to a remote access point via a WDS link as shown in Figure 4-1. In the mode, it can’t associate with any wireless clients.

  • Page 27: Wireless General Setup

    IP Gateway : The default gateway of the LAN port; default Gateway is 192.168.2.1 • Dynamic IP : This configuration type is applicable when the TEW-738APBO is Wireless Network Expansion connected to a network with the presence of a DHCP server; all related IP The network manager can configure related wireless settings, General Settings, information will be provided by the DHCP server automatically.

  • Page 28: Wireless Advanced Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO By default, it's 2. • Channel Bandwidth: The "20/40” MHz option is usually best. The other option is available for special circumstances. • Extensions Channel: Select which section of channels to use for extension channels. • MCS: This parameter represents transmission rate. By default (Auto) the fastest possible transmission rate will be selected.

  • Page 29: Wireless Wmm Qos Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO (CSMA/CA) the owner of the channel should continue ownership and finish their wireless stations, which support power saving mode, when to wake up to receive transmission and release the channel. Then, following ownership of the channel will multicast frame.
  • Page 30 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO parameters for traditional IP data. As an Example, time-sensitive Voice & Video, and multimedia are given effectively higher priority for transmission (lower wait times for channel access), while other applications and traditional IP data which are less time-sensitive but often more data- intensive are expected to tolerate longer wait times.

  • Page 31: Wds Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Maximum Contention Window is the upper limit (in milliseconds) for the doubling Data of the random backoff value. This doubling continues until either the data frame Queue Transmitted Priority Description is sent or the Maximum Contention Window size is reached. Once the Maximum...

  • Page 32: System Status

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO • Security Type: Option is “Disable”, “WEP”, “TKIP” or “AES” from drop-down list. Needs the same type to build WDS links. Security type takes effect when WDS is Operating Mode: The mode currently in service. enabled.

  • Page 33: Extra Information

    Route table information: Select “Route table information” on the drop-down list • to display route table. TEW-738APBO could be used as a L2 or L3 device. It doesn’t support dynamic routing protocols such as RIP or OSPF. Static routes to specific Wireless Information: Display total received and transmitted statistics on available •...

  • Page 34: Event Log

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Bridge table information: Select “Bridge Table information” on the drop-down list Event Log • to display bridge table. Bridge table will show Bridge ID and STP's Status on the The Event log displays system events when system is up and running. Also, it becomes each Ethernet bridge and its attached interfaces, the Bridge Port should be very useful as a troubleshooting tool when issues are experienced in system.
  • Page 35 WISPs deliver wireless broadband Internet service to new residential and business customers. In this mode, TEW-738APBO is enabled with DHCP Server functions. The wired clients of TEW-738APBO are in the same subnet from Main Base Station and it accepts wireless connections from wireless client devices.

  • Page 36: Wireless Network Expansion

    Protocol, which is also referred to as STP, is defined in the IEEE Standard 802.1d. Wireless Network Expansion Spanning tree always disabled on TEW-738APBO. Below Figures depict a loop for a The network manager can configure related wireless settings, General Settings, bridged LAN between LAN and WDS link Advanced Settings and WDS Settings.

  • Page 37: Wireless Advanced Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO point turn on. Select Always Run to have the access point always on. When Band Mode select in 802.11a only mode, the HT(High Throughput) settings should be hidden immediately. Short Slot: By default, it’s “Enable” for reducing the slot time from the standard 20 •...
  • Page 38 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO will start to “Resend” packet before ACK is received, and throughputs become low Synchronization field. The preamble is used to signal "here is a train of data coming" due to excessively high re-transmission. ACK Timeout is best determined by to the receiver.

  • Page 39: Wireless Wmm Qos Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Time-sensitive data like VoIP and streaming media Wireless WMM QoS Setup AC_VO Voice High are automatically sent to this queue To achieve optimal wireless performance, it is necessary to tweak advance setting per requirements properly, not necessary higher the better or lower.

  • Page 40: Site Survey

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Maximum Contention Window is the upper limit (in milliseconds) for the doubling Data of the random backoff value. This doubling continues until either the data frame Queue Transmitted Priority Description is sent or the Maximum Contention Window size is reached. Once the Maximum...

  • Page 41: Repeater Ap Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO • Channel: Channel numbers used by all found Access Points. • Security: Security type by all found Access Points. • Band: Wireless band used by all found Access Points. • Network Type: Network type used by all found Access Points.
  • Page 42 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Pre-shared Key: Enter the pre-shared key; the format shall go with the selected Shared secret: A secret key used between system and RADIUS server. Supports 8 key type. to 64 characters. Accounting RADIUS Server: Enable to set Account RADIUS server.

  • Page 43: Wireless Mac Filter Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Wireless MAC Filter Setup General Configuration: • The administrator can allow or reject clients to access Repeater AP. MAC Filter Setup: By default, it’s “Disable”. Options are Disable, Only Deny List • MAC or Only Allow List MAC.
  • Page 44 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO WEP Key #: Enter HEX or ASCII format WEP key value; the system supports up to 4 WPA-Enterprise (or WPA2-Enterprise): The RADIUS authentication and encryption • sets of WEP keys. will be both enabled if this is selected.

  • Page 45: Bandwidth Control

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Bandwidth Control Bandwidth control allows you to control the bandwidth going through the access point. Service: Select Enable to turn on bandwidth control through the access point. • Mode: Select the bandwidth control mode to use through the access point.

  • Page 46: Configure Time Policy

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO SNMP v2c Enable: Check to enable SNMP v2c. • ro community: Set a community string to authorize read-only access. rw community: Set a community string to authorize read/write access. • SNMP v3 Enable: Check to enable SNMP v3.

  • Page 47: System Status

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO End at: Enter the end time of time policy CPU Loading: The CPU loading of the access point Memory Used: Memory usage of the access point. System Status LAN Information: Display total received and transmitted statistics on the LAN •...

  • Page 48: Dhcp Client

    Display detailed information of the access point’s DHCP server. Route table information: Select “Route table information” on the drop-down list • to display route table. TEW-738APBO could be used as a L2 or L3 device. It doesn’t • Service: Status of access point’s DHCP server support dynamic routing protocols such as RIP or OSPF.

  • Page 49: Event Log

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Event Log The Event log displays system events when system is up and running. Also, it becomes very useful as a troubleshooting tool when issues are experienced in system. • Bridge table information: Select “Bridge Table information” on the drop-down list to display bridge table.

  • Page 50: Remote Ap Status

    Status: Display current association status of remote access point 738APBO is a gateway enabled with NAT and DHCP Server functions. The wired and wireless clients connected to TEW-738APBO are in different subnet from those connected to Main Base Station, and, in CPE+AP mode, it accepts wireless connections from wireless client devices.

  • Page 51: Configure Cpe Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO PPPoE : To create wireless PPPoE WAN connection to a PPPoE server in network. • Configure CPE Setup There are three connection types for the WAN port: Static IP, Dynamic IP, PPPoE and PPTP, Please click on System -> WAN and follow the below setting.

  • Page 52: Configure Ddns Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO PPTP: implementation of security for the PPTP connection that is between the VPN client and the VPN server. • The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) mode enables the secure multi-protocol Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) through public networks.

  • Page 53: Configure Lan Ip

    LAN interface and 4 WDS interfaces from wds0 to wds3. The Spanning Tree Protocol, which is also referred to as STP, is defined in the IEEE Standard 802.1d. Spanning tree always disabled on TEW-738APBO. Below Figures depict a loop for a bridged LAN between LAN and WDS link •...

  • Page 54: Configure Static Ip Address

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Domain: Enter the domain name for this network. Access Point Association Lease Time: The IP addresses given out by the DHCP server will only be valid for Wireless General Setup the duration specified by the lease time. Increasing the time ensure client operation without interruptions, but could introduce potential conflicts.

  • Page 55: Wireless Advanced Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO • TxStream/Rx Stream: Select the amount of transmit (TX) and Receive (RX) streams. Short Slot : By default, it’s “Enable” for reducing the slot time from the standard 20 • By default, it's 2. microseconds to the 9 microsecond short slot time. Slot time is the amount of time a •...

  • Page 56: Wireless Wmm Qos Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO performance of long distance radio link. If ACK Timeout is set too short, transmitter Short Preamble: By default, it’s “Enable”. To Disable is to use Long 128-bit Preamble • will start to “Resend” packet before ACK is received, and throughputs become low Synchronization field.
  • Page 57 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Aifsn: The Arbitration Inter-Frame Spacing Number specifies a wait time (in Medium throughput and delay. Most traditional IP AC_BE Best Effort Medium milliseconds) for data frames data is sent to this queue CWmin: Minimum Contention Window. This parameter is input to the algorithm Minimum delay.

  • Page 58: Site Survey

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO CWmin : Minimum Contention Window. This parameter is input to the • ESSID: Available Extend Service Set ID of surrounding Access Points. algorithm that determines the initial random backoff wait time ("window") for retry of a transmission. The value specified here in the Minimum •...
  • Page 59 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO ESSID: Assign Service Set ID for the wireless system. • • Lock to AP MAC: This allows the station to always maintain connection to a particular AP with a specific MAC address. This is useful as sometimes there can be few identically named SSID's (AP's) with different MAC addresses.

  • Page 60: Ap Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Group Key Update Period: By default, it’s 3600 seconds. This time interval for Shared secret: A secret key used between system and RADIUS server. Supports 8 rekeying GTK, broadcast/multicast encryption keys, in seconds. Entering the time- to 64 characters.
  • Page 61 TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Pre-shared Key: Enter the pre-shared key; the format shall go with the selected key type. WPA-Enterprise (or WPA2-Enterprise): The RADIUS authentication and encryption • will be both enabled if this is selected. WEP Auth Method: Enable the desire option among OPEN or SHARED •...

  • Page 62: Wireless Ap Mac Filter Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Shared secret: A secret key used between system and RADIUS server. Supports 8 to 64 characters. Accounting RADIUS Server: Enable to set Account RADIUS server. • WEP 802.1X: When WEP 802.1x Authentication is enabled, please refer to the following Dynamic WEP and RADIUS settings to complete configuration.

  • Page 63: Ip Filter Setup

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Click Save button to save your changes. Click Reboot button to activate your changes. Click “Save” button to add IP filter rule. Total of 20 rules maximum allowed in the IP Filter List. All rules can be edited or removed from the List. Click Reboot button to activate your changes.

  • Page 64: Virtual Server

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO access to Access Point; All others will be denied. multiple private ports. o Only Deny List MAC: The wireless clients in the MAC Filter List will be denied to • Private Port: A port or a range of ports may be specified as start:end; i.e. port access to Access Point;...

  • Page 65: Routing

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Routing System Overview This section allows you to configure the routing of the access point. Display detailed information of System, Network, LAN and Wireless in the System OSPF: Select Enable to enable OSPF setting Overview page.

  • Page 66: Dhcp Client

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO LAN Information: Display total received and transmitted statistics on the LAN DHCP Client • interface. Display detailed information of the access point’s DHCP server. Ethernet Connection Type: The connection applied on the access point. IP Address: The management IP of system. By default, it’s 192.168.2.254.

  • Page 67: Extra Information

    • to display MAC table. to display route table. TEW-738APBO could be used as a L2 or L3 device. It doesn’t support dynamic routing protocols such as RIP or OSPF. Static routes to specific hosts, networks or default gateway are set up automatically according to the IP configuration of system's interfaces.

  • Page 68: Event Log

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Event Log The Event log displays system events when system is up and running. Also, it becomes very useful as a troubleshooting tool when issues are experienced in system. o ESSID: SSID of remote access point o MAC Address: Display MAC address of WDS peer.
  • Page 69 IP address (it can be the internet gateway for example). If it is continuously, the Ping Watchdog Tool will reboot the device. unable to ping under the user defined constraints, the TEW-738APBO device will Click Save button to save your changes. Click Reboot button to activate your changes automatically reboot.

  • Page 70: Configure System Time

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO • Local Time: Display the current system time. NTP Client: To synchronize the system time with NTP server. • Enable: Check to select NTP client. Default NTP Server: Select the NTP Server from the drop-down list.

  • Page 71: Enable Upnp

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO will receive trap messages or notices send by the system. IP: Enter the IP addresses of the remote hosts to receive trap messages. Click Save button to save changes and click Reboot button to activate. Enable UPNP Enable UPNP protocol on the access point.

  • Page 72: Firmware Upgrade

    • Traceroute: Allows tracing the hops from the TEW-738APBO device to a selected URL: Enter the URL to use to upgrade access point’s firmware. Then, click Reboot • outgoing IP address. It should be used for the finding the route taken by ICMP button to activate.

  • Page 73: Reboot

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Reboot Mounting bracket installation This function allows user to restart system with existing or most current settings when Package contents changes are made. Click Reboot button to proceed and take around three minutes to complete. A reminder will be available for remaining time to complete. If power cycle is necessary, please wait till completion of the reboot process.

  • Page 74: Wall Mount Bracket

    TRENDnet User’s Guide TEW-738APBO Wall mount bracket Pole mount bracket Insert and fasten the provided clamps to the pole as shown in the above image using the provided screw washers, spring washers and nuts. Align the mounting triangle to the back of the access point. Securely tighten the mounting triangle by using the M5x10 screws and washers.

  • Page 75: Appendix

    TRENDnet User’s Guide Appendix Appendix 2. Click right on “Local Area Connection”, and select Properties. Windows TCP/IP Settings Windows XP  1. Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel, and then “Control Panel” window appears. Click on “Network Connections”, and then “Network Connections”...

  • Page 76: Enabling Upnp In Windows Xp

    TRENDnet User’s Guide Appendix Subnet mask : 255.255.255.0 In the “Networking Services” window, ensure that the “Internet Gateway Device” Enabling UPnP in Windows XP and “UPnP User Interface” options are checked. If they are not, check it to enable them, as shown below, and click OK to continue.
  • Page 77 SSDP Discovery Service will then be running and start each time you boot. After enabling UPnP and starting the SSDP Discovery Service, it may take few minutes for the “TEW-675APBO/ TEW-738APBO” to be discovered and appear in your “My Network Places”.

  • Page 78: Limited Warranty

    USA and Canada are responsible for return shipping fees. Customers and look for the desired TRENDnet product to access to the GPL Code or LGPL Code. shipping from outside of the USA are responsible for custom charges, including but not These codes are distributed WITHOUT WARRANTY and are subject to the copyrights of limited to, duty, tax, and other fees.
  • Page 79 Appendix © Copyright 2014TRENDnet. All Rights Reserved.

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