User's Manual Part 2

About the Wireless Hardware in Your Safe@Office 500W Appliance
164 Check Point Safe@Office User Guide
About the Wireless Hardware in Your Safe@Office
500W Appliance
Your Safe@Office 500W appliance features a built-in 802.11b/g access point that
is tightly integrated with the firewall and hardware-accelerated VPN.
Safe@Office 500W supports the latest 802.11g standard (up to 54Mbps) and is
backwards compatible with the older 802.11b standard (up to 11Mbps), so that
both new and old adapters of these standards are interoperable. Safe@Office 500W
also supports a special Super G mode that allows reaching a throughput of up to
108Mbps with Super G compatible stations. For more information on the Super G
mode refer to: http://www.super-ag.com.
Safe@Office 500W transmits in 2.4GHz range, using dual diversity antennas to
increase the range. In addition, the Safe@Office 500W supports a special extended
range (XR) mode that allows up to three times the range of a regular 802.11g
access point. XR dramatically stretches the performance of a wireless LAN, by
enabling long-range connections. The architecture delivers receive sensitivities of
up to 105dBm, over 20 dB more than the 802.11 specification. This allows ranges
of up to 300 meters indoors, and up to 1 km (3200 ft) outdoors, with XR-enabled
wireless stations (actual range depends on environment).