User's Guide

3e-531AP Wireless Access Point

Chapter 3: Access Point Con guration

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Wireless Setup

General

Wireless Setup allows your comupter's PC card to talk to the Access

Point.

On the

Wireless Con guration — General

page, you must enter the

SSID for the wireless LAN. This is also where you can assign a

channel

number to the AP (if necessary) and modify the

Tx Pwr Mode.

The

SSID

can be any set of letters and numbers assigned by the net-

work ad min is tra tor. This no men cla ture has to be set on the access point

and each wireless device in order for them to communicate.

The

Channel Number

is a means of assigning frequencies to a series

of access points, when many are used in the same WLAN, to minimize

interference. You can assign channels manually or automatically, using

the

Automatically select the optimal channel at bootup

function. If as-

signing manually, there are 11 channel numbers that may be assigned. If

you assign channel number 1 to the  rst in a series, then channel 6, then

channel 11, and then continue with 1, 6, 11, you will have the optimum

frequency spread to decrease “noise.” If you wish to assign automatically,

set the auto function to

YES

Tx Pwr Mode and Fixed Pwr Level:

The Tx Power Mode defaults to

Auto

, giving the largest range of radio transmission available under nor-

mal conditions. As an option, the AP's broadcast range can be limited by

setting the Tx Power Mode to

Fixed

and choosing from 1-8 for Fixed Pwr

Level (1 being the shortest distance.) Finally, if you want to prevent any

radio frequency transmission, set Tx Pwr Mode to

Off