GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide http://www.gigabyte.com.tw Rev. 1.0 First Edition 25A08-0A16B-F00 Copyright ©2003 Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Federal Communication Commission Interference 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.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Contents Chapter1 Introduction.................................................................4 Overview..........................................................................................................................4 Features............................................................................................................................4 Package Contents...........................................................................................
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Chapter1 Introduction Overview GN-A16B access point are composed of the Realtek 802.11b and 10/100 Ethernet. This product adopts the direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) technology and the DBPSK, DQPSK, and CCK modulation mode to provide a very stable wireless communication quality and an excellent signal receiver capability.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Package Contents Before the installation procedures, please ensure the components are not damaged during the shipping. The shipment of the GN-A16B includes: - One GN-A16B Wireless Broadband Router One AC Power Adapter One Installation CD with the AP Manager and User Guide Soft Copy One User Guide Please contact your local distributor or authorized reseller immediately for any missing or damaged components.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide The Front Panel LEDs The router’s LEDs display information about the router’s status. n Power (Green Light) Flicker The system is booting. On The Power is on. Note: When you are applying the changes to save the configuration, the Power LED will be off for a while. n n WLAN (Green Light) On The Wireless function is acting. Flicker Data is being transmitted/received. LAN/100 (Green Light) On Flicker n The connection speed is operating at 100 Mbps.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Chapter 2 Installation Hareware Requirements To use the Wireless Access Point on your network, each computer may need the following requirements: n An installed 802.11b wireless adapter. n An Ethernet LAN switch or hub. n a wired RJ-45 Ethernet cable System Requirements n n A Computer with Windows, Macintosh, or Linux-based operating system.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Hareware Installation Follow these steps to install the Wireless Access Point. 1. Choose a proper place for Access Point. In general, the best location is at the center of your wireless coverage area, within line of sight to all wireless devices. Keeping clear of metal obstructions and away from direct sunlight. 2. Place the Access Point in the desired location. Normally, the higher you place the antenna, the better the performance will be.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Illustration There are two installation mode for your reference as follow: Method 1: Static IP address If you are Not using a DHCP server in your network, you can configure the AP by connecting to the computer directly. PC(AP Manager) 192.168.1.x DHCP (Disable) AP 1. 192.168. 1.1(default) You will need to assign a Static IP Address to the computer that you are using to configure the Access Point on the same subnet.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Method 2: Numerous Access Points setting Using DHCP server to setup the IP Address then remove DHCP server If require to setup as many Access Points at the same time. You can setup a DHCP Server and let it assign IP to all the Access Points so it has its own unique IP address. After the setup is finished, and then remove or disabled DHCP Server at last.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Chapter3. Access Point Manager The Wireless Access Point can be configured one of two ways, through the AP Manager Utility or the Web-based configuration Utility.The Gigabyte Access Point Manager is used to configure Gigabyte Access Points. Note: The performance of wire line link is better than wireless link between the AP Manager and each Access Point. To use the wire line link to manage the Access Point is recommended.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step4. Type the User Information then click “Next”. Step5. Click “Next” to accept the default directory or “Browse” to another location.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step6. Click “Next”. Step7. Click “Next”.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step8. Please wait a while. Step9. Click “Finish” to complete setup.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Using the Access Point Manager You can launch Gigabyte AP Manager through Start \ Programs \ Gigabyte AP Manager Utility \ Gigabyte AP Manager. Enter the default password “admin” and click “OK” button. It will automatically search for Access Points on the same subnet when you open the Gigabyte AP Manager. You may click the icon to searching for Access Points manually.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide n Tree structure ESSID (ap16b666) AP Name (AP16B) MAC Address (0020ED001700) n Menu bar Tools Allow you to “Search” for AP by ESSID, AP Name, MAC Address, and IP Address and “Connect to AP by IP”. And allow you to “Save”, “Load” the AP configuration and “Copy”, “Paste” the configuration at the current page. Besides, it includes both “System Reboot” and “Load Default”. Password Allow you to change the AP Manager password and set the SNMP community string.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide n Toor bar Find Access Point Find all AP in the same subnet. Save AP Configuration Save all setting of the AP to a temp file. Load AP Configuration Load the setting of the temp file that you saved before to the current AP. Page Copy Copy the setting of the current page. Page Paste Paste the setting you has copied to the current page.(You can paste the setting of AP1 to AP2 at the same tab page.) System Reboot Reboot the Access Point.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide System Page The System Page displays the Device Information and the Change Community String function. 1 Device Information The Device Information include the AP name, MAC address, device description, the version information and the device type. You can change the AP Name to whatever unique name, which can represent this AP. 1 Change Community String This function can let you change the community string to the AP.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide 2. Please memorize the community string or write it down at somewhere. Init bottom In case you forget the community string, you have to press the AP init button and then the AP setting (include community string) will be restore to default value. Note: The SNMP community string defines the relationship between an SNMP manager system (AP Manager) and the agent systems (all APs). This string acts like a pass word to control the AP Manager to access the AP.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide IP Config Page The IP Configure tab allows you to configure the IP parameters of the access point. 1 Obtain an IP address automatically 1 You can check this selection to get IP address from the DHCP server automatically on your network. . Use the following IP address You can check this selection to assign IP address by yourself. IP Address Use this option to assign an IP address to the access point. The default IP address is 192.168.1.1.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Wireless Operation Page Normally, you can have the wireless works smoothly even you didn’t change any item in this page. 1 Region Because of the different region has a different open channel regulation, please check whether the default region value is your local area. If it did not appear properly region please contact your local distributor or authorized reseller immediately. 1 Channel ID Please choose the channel, which you can get best performance.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide 1 Auto Rate In this item you can select either “enable” or “disable”. The default value is “enable”. Enable If the selection is “enable”, the transfer rate will automatically change to the optimum rate allowed. The range of auto-change will base on the setting of “Transmit Rate”. Transmit Rate setting: 11M : range is among 1M, 2M, 5,5M and 11M 5.5M : range is among 1M, 2M and 5,5M 2M : range is between 1M and 2M 1M : no auto-change.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Encryption Page This page is the security configuration of the wireless connection. WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a data privacy mechanism based on a 64/128-bit shared key algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802.1x standard. When the “Disable” is selected there is no WEP encryption. When either “64bits” or “128bits” selected there is encrypted date transfer to prevent unauthorized user to access the wireless network.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide 1 64 (40) Bits or 128 (104) bits There are two levels of encryption 64 bits and 128 bits. The 64 bits encryption is referenced as a lower level encryption. The 128 bits encryption is referenced as a higher level encryption. The 64 bits WEP encryption use 40 bits as a secret key, which can controlled by user, and 24 bits as the initialize vector, which user can not control. These two portions plus together is 64 bits encryption.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Advanced Page For enhance the security of the wireless network, this AP provide the MAC address filtering mechanism to prevent the unauthorized user access. Check “Enable MAC filter” and key in MAC address table, then only those MAC address in the table are allowed to connect to this AP.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Associated List Page From this page, you will get the information of the workstation which can connect to the AP. The form list includes the MAC Address, Signal level and description of the workstation.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Change AP Manager Password User can change the administration password of the AP manger to prevent other user access to the AP Manager. On the Menu Bar (Password->AP Manager Password) can invoke the password change dialog. Please enter a new admin password and confirm admin password then press “OK” button. You have to enter this new password to log in when you want to use the AP Manager next time.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Upgrade Firmware You can download the upgraded firmware version from Gigabyte website. 1 Run TFTP Program Step1. You can find the “Upgrade Tool” through Start \ Programs \ Gigabyte AP Manager Utility \ Gigabyte AP Upgrade. Step2. The Gigabyte Firmware Upgrade Tool screen will appear. Please enter the “AP IP address” which you want to upgrade the firmware. You can press “Ping” button to verify whether the AP is online. Step3.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step4. After the AP device rebooting successful, the AP firmware upgrade is completed. Note: Right-Click on the screen, the content menu will be displayed. You can find the online help and the version information of the firmware upgrade utility. Uninstall AP Utility You can find the Uninstall program through Start \ Programs \ Gigabyte AP Manager Utility \ Uninstall. Step1. The InstallShield Wizard will appear then please wait. Step2. Click “Yes”. Step3.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide If you just want to modify some program components or reinstall all program components, you can run the installation program directly. And then the InstallShield Wizard will appear. Please choose one of the options what you want then click “Next” continues to modify, repair or remove the Gigabyte AP Manager Utility.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Chapter4 Web-Based Configuration Utility The Wireless Access Point can be configured one of two ways, through the AP Manager Utility or the Web-based configuration Utility. If you choose to use the Web-based configuration utility, please configure the Access Point from a computer with an ethernet connection to the Access Point. Please input the IP address of the Access Point 192.168.1.1 into the address column in the web browser.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Wireless Basic settings The Access Point automatically detects the settings to your wireless network. Changing these values will alter your current wireless network configuration. 1 Alias Name You may rename your Access Point, especially if you have more than one Access Point on your network. 1 SSID The ESSID or SSID is the name represent the AP in the wireless network.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Wireless Advanced Settings Normally, you can have the wireless works smoothly even you didn’t change any item in this page. 1 Authentication Type You may choose between “Open System”, “Shared Key”, and “Auto”. The Authentication Type default is set to “Auto”. Open System in which the sender and the recipient do NOT share a secret key. Each party generates its own key-pair and asks the receiver to ac cept the randomly generated key.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide 1 Beacon Interval The beacon interval is the amount of time between access point beacon transmissions. The default value for this interval is generally 100ms, that is 100 beacons sent every second.You can increase the beacon interval and have lower overhead on the network, but then roaming will likely suffer. It's best to leave this setting alone. 1 Data Rate You can select one of the rates among 1M, 2M, 5.5M and 11M based on your need.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Wireless Security Setup This page is the security configuration of the wireless connection. WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is a data privacy mechanism based on a 64/128-bit shared key algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802.1x standard. When the “Enabled WEP security ” is not selected there is no WEP encryption. 1 Automatic Generation Check this selection can allow user to generate the WEP key based on the string user key in.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide 1 Key Format The WEP key is generated from ASCII or Hexadecimal entries that are either 64, 128 or 256 bits in length. Please select the Key format and then input the appropriate digits or letters. You can create up to 4 keys. Please select one of the key you want to use. Verify the desired setting and then click the “Apply Changes” button to set the value into access point.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide TCP/IP Settings - LAN Interface Setup Each setup item of the local area network is the default settings, and is not necessary to make change to it for nomal operation. 1 IP Address & Subnet Mask The values are the Access Point’s IP Address and Subnet Mask. The default values are 192.168.1.254 for the IP Address and 255.255.255.0 for the Subnet Mask. You may need to assign a different Static IP address to each Access Point.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide 1 DHCP Client Range & DNS If you select the “Server Enabled” setting, please input the IP address range and the DNS for your network. The DNS information provied by your ISP company. 1 802.1d Spanning Tree Enabled or Disabled the 802.1d Spanning Tree function. The default setting is Disabled. Verify the desired setting and then click the “Apply Changes” button to set the value into access point.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Upgrade firmware This tool allows you to upgrade the latest firmware of the GN-A16B using a file provided by Gigabyte. You can download the upgraded firmware version from Gigabyte website. Please click “Browse” and select your desired upgrade file (firmware version), and then click “Upgrade”. Save/ Reload Settings This page allows you to save the current system settings as a file onto your computer.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Password User can choose to set the administration password of the AP manger to prevent other user access to the AP Manager. Please enter a new user name, admin password and confirm admin password then press “Apply Changes” button. You have to enter this new password to log in when you want to configure the Access Point by Web-Based configuration utility next time. Note: If you don’t want use the protection function, please keep the empty user name and password.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Chapter5 Troubleshooting This chapter gives information about troubleshooting your wireless broadband router. Read the descriptions below to help you diagnose and solve the problem. Q: A: What to do if you forget your password or forget the IP address of the router? Please press the “init” bottom on the router about 5 sec. The router will be restart and the system setting will restore to the default value. Q: A: Unable to connect to the Internet? 1.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Q: A: What is WEP? Wired Equivalent Privacy. Security mechanism defined within the 802.11 standard designed to make the link integrity of the wireless medium equal to wired cable. Data privacy mechanism based on a 40 bits (128 bit optional ) shared key algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802.11 standard.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Appendix A: Glossary Access Point An access point is a wired controller that sends data to the wireless NICs installed in your network computers, and received data back from them. An AP is often connected to the Network computer that has Internet access, or is directly connected to a ADSL or cable modem.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed Internet directory service. DNS is used mostly to translate between domain names and IP addresses, and to control Internet email delivery. Most Internet services rely on DNS to work, and if DNS fails, web sites cannot be located and email delivery stalls. Dynamic IP Address An IP address that is automatically assigned to a client station in a TCP/IP network, typically by a DHCP server.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide SSID The SSID is the name represent the router in the wireless network. Subnet Mask A mask used to determine what subnet an IP address belongs to. An IP address has two components, the network address and the host address. Subnetting enables the network administrator to further divide the host part of the address into two or more subnets.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Appendix B: Specification Physical Interface The broadband router includes 1 RJ-45 Ethernet LAN ports, one init hole and one antenna. Item Feature Description 1. 2. LAN Port x 1 Init Bottom RJ-45, Auto-sensing for 10/100M E thernet LAN connec tion. Initial reset 3. Wireless 1 ext ernal antenna and 1 internal antenna support diversity. IEEE802.11b Realtek 802.11b System Specification System Standards IEEE802.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Appendix C: Configuration of the PCs To connect to the Access Point, you may need to configure your computer on the same subnet as Access Point. Please follow the instructure to perform the setup under the TCP/ IP network environment. By default Windows 98, Me, 2000 and XP has TCP/IP installed. If you have not installed the TCP/IP communication Protocol, please install it now, and then select your operating system for the setup.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step2. Double-click the “Network and Dial-up Connections” icon. Step3. Double-click the “LAN CONNECTION” and click the “Properties” button.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step4. The “Local Area Connection Properties” dialog box will appear. Verfiy that the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) item is checked. And then double-click the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” item. Step5. Please assign a static IP address and the same subnet as Access Point to the computer (e.g, IP address is 192.168.1.2 and Subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0), and then click the “OK” button to return to Local Area Connection Properties.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide The Settings under Windows 95/98/Me Step1. Click “Start” at the desktop of the Windows and select “Settings”, and then select the “Control Panel”. Step2. Double-click the “Network” icon.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step3. On the Configuration tab, please choose your appropriate setting “TCP/IP-> your network LAN card” and click “Properties” button. Step4. Select the “IP Address” tab. Please assign a static IP address and the same subnet as Access Point to the computer (e.g, IP address is 192.168.1.2 and Subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0),and then click the “OK” button.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step5. Click the “OK” button again. Windows will ask you to restart your PC. Please click the “Yes” button. If Windows does not ask you to restart , please restart your computer anyway. Note: The Windows may ask you for the original Windows installation disk or additional files. Please insert your Windows CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive and check the correct location, e.g., D:\win98, D:\win9x, etc. (If “D” is your CD-ROM drive).
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide The Settings under Windows XP Step1. Click “Start” in the desktop of the Windows to select “Settings”, and then select “Control Panel”. Step2. Double-click the “Network and Dial-up Connections” icon.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step3. Double-click the “LAN CONNECTION” and click the “Properties” button. Step4. The “Local Area Connection Properties” dialog box will appear. Verfiy that the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) item is checked. And then double-click the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” item.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Step5. Please assign a static IP address and the same subnet as Access Point to the computer (e.g, IP address is 192.168.1.2 and Subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0), and then click the “OK” button to return to Local Area Connection Properties. Click the “OK” button again to complete the PC configuration.
GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide Limited Warranty 1-Year Warranty Gigabyte warrants to the original consumer/purchaser that the product free from defects in material and workmanship for no limited time from the original manufactory shipment date. This warranty does not cover the product if it is damaged in the process of being installed or improperly used. Gigabyte may replace or repair the product with either new or reconditioned parts.
