User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Product Description 2
- The Product Package 3
- System Requirements 4
- Network Requirements 4
- Note to Customers Who Have a Symphony HomeRF Base Station 5
- Interoperability Between Symphony Products 5
- What Is Wireless Networking? 7
- Supported Configurations 8
- Pre-installation Considerations 11
- Installation Procedure 12
- Composer Features 16
- Conductor Management and Configuration Features 23
- Networking Features 27
- Administrative Features 30
- Default Switcher Profiles 31
- Location Switcher Icon 32
- Switching Between Profiles 34
- Editing a Profile 34
- Creating and Deleting Profiles 37
- Examples of When to Use Profiles 37
- Additional Information for Wireless Networks That Communicate With Another Network 39
- Sharing a Dial-up Modem 40
- Application Hints 44
- Common Installation Problems 49
- USB Adapter’s LED Indicator 53
- Introduction
- Wireless Networking for the Home & Small Office
- Installation
- Symphony Composer Installation Wizard
- Symphony Maestro Configuration Tool
- Symphony Location Switcher
- Using the Wireless Network
- Uninstalling Symphony Software
- Troubleshooting
- A. How to Reach Technical Support
- B. Specifications
- C. Regulatory Information
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selection and proceeding to the next screen. At any time, you may click the
<Back> button to return to an earlier screen and change a previous selection.
Important Note to PPPoE Users
If you are sharing a DSL or cable modem and your ISP uses the Point-to-Point
over Ethernet protocol to connect you to the Internet, the Symphony Com-
poser Installation Wizard does not configure PPPoE settings; you need to con-
figure these settings within the Maestro Configuration Tool after you have
completed the Composer Wizard. See Chapter 5 for details.
Important Note to Users in Transparent Bridging Mode
This note is only for users who want to create a wireless network that commu-
nicates with another network (e.g., an Ethernet network). If your Ethernet net-
work does not have a DHCP server, then you must manually configure each
wireless client with IP information that is valid on the Ethernet network.
Complete the Symphony Composer Installation Wizard on each of your wire-
less computers and then refer to Chapter 7 for more information.
Composer Features
The Composer helps you configure the following network settings:
Assign a Security Code
A Security Code protects your wireless network from unauthorized access.
Each Symphony HomeRF device must have the same Security Code to com-
municate. The Security Code is any combination of numbers and letters up to
20 characters long, and it is case-sensitive.
When configuring the Security Code on the first computer, enter a code that
will be easy for you to remember: you will need to use the same Security Code
later when configuring the other wireless computers.