User's Manual

WEB MANAGEMENT INTERFACE REFERENCE

ACCESS POINT (AP) SETTINGS

(ADVANCED)

MENU ITEM MENU ITEM DESCRIPTION

802.11 Access Point

(advanced)

Each radio 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 (Numbered

channels in the frequency selection menu i.e. “2412 / 5-20

MHz - Channel 1”) and the channel width MUST be set to 20

MHz.

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

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.

Address Range

Start

Start of range of IP addresses assigned to DHCP clients

Address Range

End

End of range of IP addresses assigned to DHCP clients

Netmask Netmask assigned to DHCP clients

Default Gateway Gateway assigned to DHCP clients

DNS Server 1 Primary DNS server assigned to DHCP clients

DNS Server 2 Secondary DNS server assigned to DHCP clients

WINS Server WINS server assigned to DHCP clients

Lease Time DHCP lease time (defaults to 1 hour)