LevelOne WAP-8111 User Manual

LevelOne WAP-8111 Manual

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    LevelOne WAP-6111 / WAP-6111H / WAP-6112 / WAP-6112H Managed Ceiling Mount Wireless Access Point, 300Mbps 802.11b/g/n, 802.3af PoE, High Power User's Manual V1. 0_20151119
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    Table of Contents About This Guide...3 Purpose and Scope...3 Web UI Style ...3 Factory Default Settings...3 Chapter 1 Product Overview 5 1.1 Key Features...5 1.2 Specification ...5 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation 7 2.1 In-Wall Access Point 7 2.1.1 Panel Descriptions 7 2.2
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    6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Chapter 7 DHCP server settings 28 Static DHCP ...29 DHCP client list 31 Case of DHCP configuration 31 Wireless configuration 34 System mode: ...34 Wireless basic configuration ...34 7.1 AP Mode ...35 7.2 Repeater Mode ...36 7.3 Bridge Mode ...38 7.4 Lazy Mode...38 7.5
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    an overview of the access points, as well as the information you need to install and configure your access point through the Web interface. This guide will be updated as new information becomes available. Web UI Style The Device's Web User Interface (Web UI) follows the web standards. A typical Web
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    Parameter Administrator User Name Administrator Password LAN IP Address SSID Default Value Description admin admin 192.168.1.253/255.255.255.0 LEVEONE_ABCDEF Both the User Name and Password are case sensitive. You can use this IP address to access the Device through a Web browser. To connect to
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    Support static IP and DHCP connection types Support DHCP server Support static DHCP Support multiple wireless modes Support multiple wireless security modes Support wireless MAC address filtering Support hidden SSID Support WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) Support service department.。 1.2 Specification 5
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     Conform to IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet standards  Support TCP/IP, DHCP, etc.  Each physical port supports auto-negotiation for the port speed and duplex mode  Each physical port supports auto MDI/MDI-X  Provide system and port LEDs  Operating Environment: Temperature: 32
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    of the WA Series Wireless Access Points, and explains how to install them. 2.1 In-Wall Access Point 2.1.1 Panel Descriptions The in-wall wireless access point supports IEEE 802.3af PoE. The dimension is 86 x 86 x 36 mm, It can be directly installed on standard 86 base box. Figure 2 1 shows the front
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    2.2 Preparing for Installation 1) Make sure that there is proper heat dissipation and adequate ventilation around the Device. 2) Position the Device out of direct sunlight and away from sources of heat and ignition. 3) Position the Device away from sources of electrical noise, such as high power
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    In-Ceiling Access Point 2.5 Panel Descriptions The in-ceiling wireless access point supports IEEE 802.3af PoE. A system status LED is located at the front panel, a LAN port is located at the bottom panel, and a reset button is
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    2.7 Items Required for Installation The following items are required for installation: 1. Broadband Internet connection 2. Tools and equipment • Wireless LAN controller or normal router • PC with an Ethernet card and TCP/IP installed • Power outlet • (Optional) PoE PSE (Power Sourcing Equipment)
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    Figure 0-2 Fit Access Point Deployment As shown in Figure 0-, an access point acts as a Fat AP. The access point is directly connected to the default gateway, and clients access the network through the access point. Figure 0-3 Fat Access Point Deployment 11
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    Chapter 3 Logging in to the Device This chapter describes how to configure TCP/IP settings on your computer, and how to login to the Device. In addition, it briefly describes the layout of the Device's Web interface. Configuring Your Computer To configure the Device via Web UI, you need to
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    Pinging 192.168.1.253 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 192.168.1.253: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), If the Ping command is successful, the connection between the computer and the Device is
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    Figure 3-2 Web UI Login Window If the login is successful, the home page appears, as shown in Figure 3-3. Figure 3-3 Web UI Home Page Home Description: 1) The top-right corner of the page displays device model, software version, hardware version. 2) This page displays the main menu bar on the left.
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    4 Fit AP In this chapter, we first provide an overview of AP centralized management. Then we describe the features and parameters supported in Fit AP mode.。 AP Centralized Management Overview 4.1 Terminology Client: A PC, laptop, or other terminals with a wireless Network Interface Card. WLAN
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    Figure 4-1 Communication Process between Fit AP and WAC-1000 / WAC-1001 The communication between a Fit AP and WAC-1000 / WAC-1001 proceeds in the following fashion: 1. When started, the AP broadcast a discovery request message to find WAC-1000 / WAC-1001 on the local network. 2. When an WAC-1000 /
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    to the thin AP. Tip: 1) In the process of device operation, while the configuration file is modified on the AP, for instance, it joins in a service area, WAC-1000 / WAC-1001 will let the thin AP upload the modified configuration file to the local disk for saving. Note: This configuration file
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    Mobility, or roaming, is a wireless client's ability to move from one AP coverage area to another without interruption in service or loss in connectivity. The Device supports layer 2 roaming, which allows wireless clients to roam across access points on the same subnet and VLAN. To implement layer
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    I: Local modification Enter Network parameters ->LAN port configuration page to configure the LAN port IP address of the device. The access mode supported by the device LAN port: fixed IP access, dynamic IP access. These two access modes will be introduced respectively in the subsequent sections
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    Figure 4-2 Fixed IP access Access mode: Selects fixed IP access here; IP address: The IP address of device LAN port, through which the administrator can manage this device; Subnet mask: It is the subnet mask of device LAN port, which should be consistent with the subnet mask of the network computer;
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    Figure 4-3 Dynamic IP access Tip: 1) After the address of the LAN port is modified, please log in the device using the new IP address of LAN port. 2) When the LAN access mode is dynamic IP access, please confirm the LAN port IP address at the DHCP server. Status of wireless host Enter System status
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    wireless rate of the device. Interfacing information Interface information bar shows device LAN port IP address, MAC address, subnet mask, and gateway address. AP status Service area: Displays the service area to which the device is a member, and the device can be a member of up to
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    Chapter 5 Start menu Starting from this chapter, the function parameters of the device that operates in fat AP mode are described. The parameters already introduced in Chapter 4 Thin AP Configuration will not be detailed again subsequently. Start menu is located on the top of the Level 1 menu bar of
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    upon your situation, and then click < Complete >, to save the configuration to the LAN port. Figure 5-2 LAN port configuration - Fixed IP access 2) Dynamic IP access If you acquire the IP address for configuring LAN port in a dynamic manner, please click directly in the interface as
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    about the device's LAN port. As Figure 5-4 shown in the interface, the connection type, connection status, IP address and other information about LAN port can be viewed. Figure 5-4 Information about running status Port flow This section describes the Start-> Port flow page, as shown in Figure 5-5.
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    Figure 5-5 Port flow Wired: Click this tab to view the dynamic diagram of a device in receiving and sending dynamic data; Wireless: Click this tab to view the dynamic diagram of a device in receiving and sending wireless data; Timeline: The x-coordinate in the flow chart. You can click on the
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    Restarting device If you need to restart the device, just enter into the Start-> Restart device page to click . Figure 5-6 Restart device Tip: Upon restarting, all users will be disconnected from the device. 27
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    port configuration for details. DHCP server 6.1 DHCP server settings The the DHCP server functions on the device are disabled by default. Figure 6-1 Configuring the DHCP service Enable DHCP server: Select to enable the device's DHCP server function; 28
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    function of the device. 6.2 Static DHCP This section describes the static DHCP list and the way to configure a static DHCP. Using the DHCP service to automatically configure TCP/IP properties for the network computers is very convenient, but it can cause a computer to be assigned with different IP
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    Figure 6-2 Static DHCP list 2) Static DHCP configuration Click in the page as shown in Figure 6-2, to enter into the Static DHCP configuration page as shown below. Below shows the meaning of the parameters for configuring static DHCP. Figure 6-3 Static DHCP configuration User
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    1) After the setting is successful, the device will assign the preset IP address for the specified computer in a fixed way; 2) The assigned IP addresses must be within the range provided by the DHCP server. 6.3 DHCP client list For the IP address already assigned to the network computer, its
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    page; The third step is to enable the DHCP function, configure the related DHCP service parameters (as shown in Figure 6-5), and click after the end of configuration. Figure 6-5 DHCP service settings - Instance The third step is to enter theNetwork parameters -> DHCP server-> Static DHCP
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    Figure 6-7 Static DHCP configuration - Instance B At this point, the configuration is complete, and you can view the information about 2 static DHCP entries in the "static DHCP information list", as shown in Figure 6-8. Figure 6-8 Static DHCP information list - Instance 33
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    Chapter 7 Wireless configuration In the wireless configuration, the relevant wireless functions and parameters are set in the device, including: system mode, wireless basic configuration, wireless security configuration, wireless MAC address filtering, and wireless advanced configuration. In
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    is connected; AP work mode: Selecting the AP Mode, namely the pure AP mode, in which the peer device can be a single client; SSID (Service Set Identification) is used to uniquely identify a character string of wireless network, and is case sensitive. Wireless mode: This parameter is used to set the
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    will be connected according to their modes, with the maximum rates of 54M bps and 300M bps respectively; Channel: This parameter is used to select the frequency bands in which the wireless network works, with the available range from 1 to 13, and it provides automatic options, which means that the
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    Figure 7-2 Repeater Mode For the meaning of enabling wireless function, AP work mode, SSID, wireless mode, channel, channel bandwidth, enabling SSID broadcast, see the section: AP Mode for relevant explanations, and these terms will no longer be detailed if any in the subsequent configuration; MAC
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    7.3 Bridge Mode Bridge Mode, in which the device is connected to two or more wired networks, and the device will no longer send wireless signals to other clients, to exchange data with the network devices in Bridge Mode, Repeater Mode, Lazy Mode. The meaning of related configuration parameters is
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    Figure 7-4 Lazy Mode 7.5 Wireless configuration instance This section lists configuration instances where the device works in the AP Mode, Repeater Mode and other AP work modes according to the four AP work modes of the device. I. AP Mode configuration instance Figure 7-5 AP Mode networking
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    1. Requirements:Some home users want to put desktop computer, laptop, Tablet PC, smartphones on the Internet via wireless devices, and prevent users other than their home from accessing to wireless devices. Here, the gateway address is 192.168.1.1. 2. Analysis:Desktop computers are connected via a
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    Figure 7-7 Repeater Mode networking environment 1. Requirements:The office personnel in Building 2 need to be wirelessly connected to Device A, and access to the Internet through the gateway. The related parameters of Device A are as follows: Item Address of LAN port SSID Wireless mode Security
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    configuration to configure the IP address (on the same network segment) of the LAN port IP address of Devices A and B, with the gateway address directed to the export gateway; 2) Configure the AP mode of Device A as Repeater Mode, with the MAC address of AP as the MAC address of Device B, and the
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    4. Connectivity verification: Ping the LAN IP address of Device A on a computer in Building 2. If it can be pinged successfully, then it means that the connection between the two wireless devices has been established. Solutions II, III, IV, V can follow Solution I. Tip: 1) The device in Bridge Mode
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    7.7 WEP Figure 7-10 WEP Security mechanism: Selecting "WEP" here means that the device will use the most basic WEP security mechanism provided by the 802.11 Protocol; Authentication type: When using the WEP encryption mechanism, three options, automatic, open systems, Shared keys are available: Auto
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    server used to the authenticate wireless hosts. Radius port: The service port number used by the Radius server for authenticating wireless hosts. Radius password: Sets the password for accessing to the Radius service. Key update cycle: It is the timed update cycle used to
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    value is 0. 7.9 WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK Figure 7-12 WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK Security mechanism: Here, you can select "WPA-PSK /WPA2-PSK", which means that the device will use WPA-PSK /WPA2-PSK security mechanism. Under this security mechanism, this device will use the WPA mode based on the Pre-Shared key. WPA
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    Figure 7-13 Filtering of wireless MAC address Enable MAC address filtering: enable or disable the MAC address filtering function, checking it means to enable it; Filtering rules: Sets the rules for MAC address filtering; Permission: It indicates that only the wireless clients that correspond to the
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    Wireless Advanced Configuration This section describes the meaning of the wireless advanced parameters in the Wireless Configuration-> Wireless advanced configuration. In this page, you can set wireless advanced parameters, and under normal circumstances, keep the default values of these parameters.
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    preamble type will be able to provide more viable connections and a large range of connections; Enable WMM: Allows you to enable or disable the WMM support. WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) is a subset of the 802.11e standard. WMM allows wireless traffic to have a priority range based on the data type. Time
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    Figure 7-16 Status of wireless host ID: Serial number; MAC address: The MAC address of the wireless host; Filter: Selecting it to indicate that the current MAC address has been added into the "List of MAC address filter information" (which can be viewed in theWireless configuration --> Wireless MAC
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    Chapter 8 System management In the System Management main menu, you can enter the Administrator configure, clock management, configuration management, software upgrade, and scheduled task pages. This chapter mainly describes how users set the device clock; how to back up and import the configuration
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    needs to be accurately set, to make it synchronize with the local standard time. The device provides two ways of setting system time, "Manual setup time" and "Network time synchronization". It is recommended to use the "Network time synchronization" function to obtain the standard time, and the
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    zone in which the device resides. Only choosing a correct time zone can the network time synchronization function work properly. Manual time setting: Manually enters the current date and time (unit: Y-M-D, H:M:S); Network time synchronization: After using the network time synchronization function to
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    3) Restore to factory settings of device If users need to restore the device to its factory settings, enter into the Systems management -> Configuration management page, and click . Tip: 1) Do not cut off the device power supply in loading configuration, in order to avoid unexpected errors.
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    Step 1: Download the latest software Click on the hyperlink "Download the latest version" and go to the official site of LevelOne to download the latest version of the software to your local PC. Step 2: Select the upgrade path In the "Select the upgrade file" text box, enter the path for upgrading
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    Figure 8-6 List of scheduled tasks 2) Description of scheduled task parameters Figure 8-7 Configuration of scheduled tasks Task name: Name of the custom tasks; Startup type: Indicates time cycle, and the options are: every week, every day, every hour, every minute; Running time: Means the specific
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    can understand system-related information and view system history; through information systems, network administrators can understand network problems or potential problems, which helps improve the network performance and enhance network security. Figure 9-1 System information Current system time
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    Serial number: Shows the internal serial number of product (which may be different from the surface serial number); Device model: Displays the product model of the device; Hardware version: Displays the hardware version number of the device. When the device hardware version is V1.0, it is not
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    automatically, select Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically. 2) If you want to set the IP address and other settings manually, do the following:  Select Use the following IP address, enter the static IP address (a free IP address in 192.168.1.0/24) in IP
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    automatically, select Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically. 7. If you want to set the IP address and other settings manually, do the following: 8. Select Use the following IP address, enter the static IP address (a free IP address in 192.168.1.0/24) in IP
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    Appendix B Hex ASCII Codes Appendix A Table of ASCII Codes in Hexadecimal Form Character Enter ESC Space Hex Code 0D 1B 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C Character - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; Hex Code 2D 2E 2F 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B Character < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J Hex
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LevelOne
WAP-6111 / WAP-6111H / WAP-6112 / WAP-6112H
Managed Ceiling Mount Wireless
Access Point,
300Mbps 802.11b/g/n, 802.3af PoE, High
Power
User’s
Manual
V1. 0_20151119