User`s guide

ZyAIR B-5000 User’s Guide
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Preface
Congratulations on your purchase from the ZyAIR B-5000 Outdoor Access Point & Bridge.
A wireless gateway is an access point and router rolled into one. It is a cost-effect solution to share Internet
access with multiple computers and expand your wired network.
This User’s Guide is designed to guide you through the configuration of your ZyAIR using the web
configurator or the SMT.
Related Documentation
 Supporting Disk
Refer to the included CD for support documents.
 Quick Installation Guide
Our Quick Installation Guide is designed to help you get up and running right away. It contains
information on the configuration of key features and hardware connections and installation.
 ZyXEL Web Site
The ZyXEL download library at www.zyxel.com
contains additional documentation. Please also
refer to www.zyxel.com
for an online glossary of networking terms.
Syntax Conventions
• “Enter” means for you to type one or more characters (and press the carriage return). “Select” or
“Choose” means for you to use one predefined choices.
• [Enter], or carriage return, key; [ESC] means the escape key and [SPACE BAR] means the space bar.
[UP] and [DOWN] are the up and down arrow keys.
• Mouse action sequences are denoted using a comma. For example, “click the Apple icon, Control
Panels and then Modem” means first click the Apple icon, then point your mouse pointer to Control
Panels and then click Modem.
• For brevity’s sake, we will use “e.g.,” as a shorthand for “for instance”, and “i.e.,” for “that is” or “in
other words” throughout this manual.
• The ZyAIR B-5000 may be referred to simply as the ZyAIR in the user’s guide.
User Guide Feedback
Help us help you. E-mail all User Guide-related comments, questions or suggestions for improvement to
[e-mail] or send regular mail to The Technical Writing Team, ZyXEL Communications
Corp., 6 Innovation Road II, Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan. Thank you.