Edimax PT-31E Manual - Page 30

Network Type

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The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Wireless Select „Enable‟ to activate wireless network function of this IP camera, Connection select „Disable‟ to disable it. Network Type Select the network type of wireless connection. Available options are „Infrastructure‟ (Connect the IP camera to a wireless access point), and „Adhoc‟ (This IP camera will become a stand-alone wireless network point, other wireless computers / devices can discover this IP camera and connect to it without wireless access point). You can set to „Adhoc‟ when you don‟t have any wireless access point, but your computer has wireless network card. Set to „Infrastructure‟ when you have wireless access point, and you have computers with wired network connection. Available Here shows all wireless access points found by this IP camera. Please Networks note not all access points will be displayed at the same time, if the access point you expected to connect does not appear, you may have to click „Refresh‟ button for several times until it appears. The descriptions of all fields is listed below: Connect: You can select the wireless access point you wish to connect here. SSID: the SSID of all found wireless access points will be shown here. Some wireless access point may hide their SSID; in this case, you have to identify them by their MAC address. MAC Address: If you there are many wireless access points in proximity or some wireless access point hides it‟s SSID, you can use MAC address to distinguish them. Signal: Shows the radio signal strength in percent. Channel: Shows the radio channel of this wireless access point. Encryption: Shows the encryption type used by this wireless access point. You must use the same encryption type if you wish to connect to a certain wireless access point. If the wireless access point does not use encryption, „Disabled‟ will be displayed here. Network Type: Shows the network type of a certain wireless access point (Infrastructure or Adhoc). 29

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The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item
Description
Wireless
Connection
Select „Enable‟ to activate
wireless network function of this IP camera,
select „Disable‟ to disable it.
Network Type
Select the network type of wireless connection.
Available options are „Infrastructure‟ (Connect the IP camera to a
wireless access point), and „Adhoc‟ (This IP camer
a will become a
stand-alone wireless network point, other wireless computers /
devices can discover this IP camera and connect to it without wireless
access
point). You can set to „Adhoc‟ when you don‟t have any
wireless access point, but your computer has wireless network card.
Set to „Infrastructure‟ when you have wireless access point, and you
have computers with wired network connection.
Available
Networks
Here shows all wireless access points found by this IP camera. Please
note not all access points will be displayed at the same time, if the
access point you expected to connect does not appear, you may have
to click „Refresh‟ button for several times until it appears. The
descriptions of all fields is listed below: Connect: You can select the
wireless access point you wish to connect here. SSID: the SSID of all
found wireless access points will be shown here. Some wireless access
point may hide their SSID; in this case, you have to identify them by
their MAC address. MAC Address: If you there are many wireless
access points in proximity or some wireless access point hides it‟s SSID,
you can use MAC address to distinguish them. Signal: Shows the radio
signal strength in percent. Channel: Shows the radio channel of this
wireless access point. Encryption: Shows the encryption type used by
this wireless access point. You must use the same encryption type if
you wish to connect to a certain wireless access point. If the wireless
access point does not use encryption, „Disabled‟ will be displayed
here. Network Type: Shows the network type of a certain wireless
access point (Infrastructure or Adhoc).