User's Manual

WEB MANAGEMENT INTERFACE REFERENCE

ACCESS POINT SETTINGS

(ADVANCED)

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802.11 Access Point

(advanced)

2.4GHz and 5.8GHz radios can be conﬁgured to function as an

802.11 access point. Standard clients such as laptops with built

in 802.11 cards may access this system. If the AP is disabled, the

ESSID and Beacon Interval conﬁguration options have no effect. For

maximum performance, always disable the 802.11 AP unless it is

required. To use a radio as a 802.11 Access Point, the radio MUST

be set to a valid 802.11 frequency and the channel width MUST be

set to 20MHz.

The following ﬁelds are only visible when the 802.11 Access Point is “Enabled.”

Mesh Routing (ad-

vanced)

The Mesh Routing setting enables per radio selection of which

radios participate in the multi-hop mesh routing process. In

a multi-radio node where the user may only want the mesh

running on the backhaul radios, this setting enables the user to

speciﬁcally disable the mesh on the client access radios. Be aware

that if a node is only accessible via the mesh and mesh routing is

disabled, connection will be lost to that node.

ESSID (advanced) Sets the name of the network that the access point advertises to

clients.

ESSID Visibility

(advanced)

The ESSID can be conﬁgured to be “Visible” or “Hidden.”

Generally, the ESSID is conﬁgured to be “Visible” to make it easy

for clients to connect to the access point. For additional security/

privacy the ESSID can be conﬁgured as “Hidden.”

AP Security (advanced) Enables or disables 802.11 security on the Access Point - Only

WPA2-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access v2 with pre-shared keys) is

supported.

WPA2 Passphrase

(advanced)

Sets a shared passphrase when AP Security is set to WPA2 - The

passphrase should be an ASCII string of length 8-63 characters,

excluding these characters: ‘,”\&/<>

AP Broadcast Rate

(advanced)

Controls the rate at which broadcasts are transmitted from

an 802.11 Access Point - Increasing this rate can signiﬁcantly

increase network capacity but will reduce the range of client con-

nectivity. If the rate is set too high, client devices will have trouble

receiving broadcast packets from the 802.11 access point.