Manuel d'utilisation / d'entretien du produit WL-331 du fabricant Sitecom
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Wireless-N Range Ex tender W L-330 Wireless-N A ccess Point W L-331 Full Manual.
Index Chapter I: P roduct In formation ............ ............ ............ ............ ....... ......... 3 1-1 Product Introducti on ............ ............ ........ ............ ............ ............ ... 3 1-2 Safety Inf ormation ...... ...
Chapter IV : Appendix ......... ............ ............ ............ ...... ............ ............ .. 35 4-1 Hardware Sp ecificati on ... ............ .......... .......... ............ ............ ....... 35 4-2 GNU GP L License Infor mation ..
Chapter I: Product In formation 1-1 Product Intro duction Thank you fo r purchasi ng thi s wireless access p oint! With this highl y cost-efficient wireless acce ss point, c omputers and wi reless d evices whi ch are compati ble with 802.1 1 Draft-N can c onnect to an existin g wired Ethernet netw ork, at the sp eed of 300 Mbps.
6. Acce ssories of th is access p oint, li ke antenna and powe r suppl y, are danger t o small child ren under 3 years o ld. They may p ut the smal l parts in th eir nose or month an d it coul d cause serious d amage to them. KEEP T HIS ACCESS PO INT OUT THE REACH OF CHILDREN! 7.
1-5 Access po int description Front Pane l LED Statu s Description PWR On The access poi nt i s switched on and c orrectly powered. On Wireless WPS m ode i s enabl ed. (WL-331 only) Off Wireless n etwork is swi tched off. WLAN Flashi ng Wireless LAN a ctivity ( transferring or r eceiving data).
Chapter II: System and Network Setup 2-1 Installing the access point in your Network Please foll ow the foll owing in struction to buil d the network conn ection betwe en your n ew wireless acce ss point an d your compu ters, netw ork devices: 1.
2-2-1 Windows 95 /98/Me IP address s etup 1. Click the ‘Start ’ button ( it shoul d be located at th e lower-left corne r of your computer), then cli ck control pan el. Double-cli ck the Network icon, an d Network wind ow will appear. Select ‘TCP/IP’, th en click ‘Properti es’.
2-2-2 Windows 20 00/XP IP address setup 1. Cl ick ‘Start’ button ( it sh ould be l ocated at lower-left co rner of your c omputer), then click control panel. Doubl e-click Network and Dial-up Connection s icon, doub le click Local Area Connec tion, and Loc al Area Conn ection Prope rties wind ow will appear.
2-2-3 Windows V ista IP address setup 1. Cl ick the ‘Start’ bu tton (i t should be l ocated at lower-l eft corner of y our comput er), then click cont rol panel . Click View Netw ork S tatus and Ta sks , then cli ck Manage Network Con nections . Right -click Local Area Network, then select ‘Prope rties’.
2-2-5 Connecting to W eb Managem ent Interface All fun ctions and setti ngs of this access p oint must be configured vi a the web management i nterface. Please start your web brows er, and inpu t ‘192.168.0.234 ’ in the address bar, and press t he ‘Enter’ ke y.
2-3 View System Sta tus and Information After you c onnected to th e access poi nt by web browser, the first thi ng you see i s ‘Status and Informati on’ page. A ll system and netw ork related i nformation of this access p oint will be di splayed here.
2-4 Select an Op erating Mode for Wireless Access Point This access p oint can be operated i n different m odes; you can cli ck ‘ Basic Settin g ’ to select an ope rating mode y ou want to me et f.
2-4-1 AP Mode This i s the most commo n mode. Wh en in AP mo de, this access p oint acts as a bridge between 802.11b /g/Dra ft-N wirel ess devices an d wired Ethern et network, and exchange data between th em. The WL- 331 Access Point uses “AP M ode” as d efault setting .
2-4-2 Station-Inf rastructure In this mode, y ou can c onnect the acce ss point to Ethernet devi ce such us TV and Game player to enabl e the Ethern et device be a wi reless stati on and j oin to a wirel ess network through an acc ess poi nt or AP router.
2-4-2-1 Wireless Site Survey The table wi ll list t he access poin ts nearby as th e access point is set to Stati on mode; you can sel ect one of th e access poi nts to assoc iate. Select Click the radi o button to select the acce ss point. Channel Display to chan nel num ber of the acc ess point.
2-4-3 Universal Repeater In this mode, th e acces s point can act as a wir eless repeate r; it can be S tation an d AP at the same ti me. It can use Stati on functi on to connect to a R oot AP and use AP functi on to service al l wireless sta tions wi thin its coverage.
2-4-4 AP Bridge- Point to Point Mode In this mode, th is wi reless access poin t will conn ect to another wi reless acc ess point which uses the same m ode, and al l wired Ether net clients of both wi reless acce ss point s will be conne cted togeth er.
2-4-5 AP Bridge- Point to Multi- Point Mode In this mode, th is wi reless access poin t will conn ect to up to fou r wireless a ccess point s which uses the same m ode, and al l wired Ether net clients of every wirel ess access poin ts will be conne cted togeth er.
2-4-5 AP Bridge- WDS Mode In this mode, th is wi reless access poin t will conn ect to up to fou r wireless a ccess point s which uses the same m ode, and al l wired Ether net clients of every wirel ess access poin ts will be conne cted togeth er. You can us e this mode to conn ect a netwo rk to othe r networks whi ch is ph ysically i solated.
2-5 Wireless Sec urity This wi reless access poi nt provides m any types of wi reless securi ty (wirel ess data encrypti on). When you use data enc ryption, da ta transferred by radio si gnals in th e air will become u nreadable for those peopl e who don’t know correct encrypt ion key (encrypti on password).
2-5-2 WPA Pre-s hared Key WPA Pre-shar ed key is t he safest encrypt ion meth od currently, and i t’s recommend ed to use this enc ryption met hod to ensure th e safety o f your data.
2-5-3 WEP WEP (Wired Equival ent Privacy) is a comm on encrypti on mode, it ’s safe enough for home and personal use. But i f you need hi gher level of security, pleas e consider u sing WPA encrypti on (see next Secti on).
2-5-4 WPA RADIUS WPA Radi us is the combi nation of WPA encryption method and RAD IUS user authenti cation. If you h ave a RADIUS au thenti cation server, you can check th e identi fy of every wi reless cli ent by user databas e.
2-6 Advanced W ireless Settings This wi reless access poi nt has many ad vanced wi reless features. Pl ease note th at all settings li sted here are f or experi enced users on ly, if you’re not sure abou t the meani ng and functi on of these set tings, please d on’t modi fy them, or the wirel ess performanc e will be reduc ed.
Preambl e Type Set the typ e of preambl e of wireles s radio, Do not modify default valu e if you do n’t know wh at it is, defa ult setting is ‘Short Pr eamble’. Broadcast ESSID Decide if th e wireless access p oint will broadcast its own ESSID or not.
2-7 RADIUS Server Comparing to other wi reless security mea sures, radiu s server provi des user-ba sed authenti cation. If your wireless cli ent supports 802.1 x user auth entication, you can use the ‘Radiu s Server’ func tion to use the internal mini radius server t o improve se curity and wi reless user contr ol.
one or mor e addresses, check ‘Sel ect’ box of th at address, and click ‘Delete Sel ected’ bu tton; you can cli ck ‘Delete Al l’ button to delete all addresses in r adiu s server database. You can al so click ‘Reset’ bu tton to un check all ‘Sel ect’ boxes.
2-8 WPS Setting (WL-331 only) Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is the simp lest way to buil d connecti on between wirel ess network cli ents and thi s access point .
if data encrypti on setti ngs has been set before, ‘Configured’ message will be displ ayed here. Self Pin Code: This i s the WPS PIN cod e of this access poi nt. Thi s code is usefu l when you need to bui ld wirel ess connection by WPS with other WPS-enab led wi reless devices.
Chapter III : Toolbox 3-1 System Ut ilities This access p oint provi des some cont rol functi ons includi ng password, IP ad dress management, an d DHCP s erver functi on. Please go to Toolb ox , and open the ‘ Syst em’ tab, to acces s these funct ions.
If you want to activate t he DHCP serv er functi on of this wireless acc ess poi nt, please select ‘ Enabl ed ’ in ‘ DH CP Server ’ opti on, and see next Secti on for detail ed instructi ons; .
3-2 Configuration B ackup and Restore You can backup all configurations of thi s access p oint to a file, so y ou can make se veral copied of acce ss point configuration fo r securit y reason.
3-3 Firmware Upgrade If there are ne w firmwa re of thi s wireless acces s point avail able, you can upload th e firmware to th e access poi nt to chang e the firmware wi th new one, t o get extra fun ctions or probl em fix.
3-4 System Reset When you th ink the acc ess point i s not workin g properly, you can us e thi s function to restart the ac cess poin t; this may hel p and solve the p roblem. This fun ction is useful when the access point i s far from you or un reachabl e.
Chapter IV: Appendix 4-1 Hardware Sp ecification SoC: Ralink RT 2880 RF : Ralink RT 2820 F lash: 4MB SDR AM: 16MB LAN Port: 10/100M UT P Port x 1 Ante nna: 3dBi Detacha ble Dipol e Antenna x 2 (2T 2R Spatial Multiplexing MIMO configuration.
4-2 GNU GPL L icense Information Parts of the firmware of the WL-330 300- N Universal Repeater, and WL-331 300-N Wire less Access Point are subject to the GNU general p ublic license. A ppendix A : Li censing Informatio n This product includes thir d-party software licensed under the terms of the GNU Gene ral Public License.
we want to make certain that ever yone understands that there is no warranty for this free software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recip ients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any probl ems introduced by others wi ll not reflect on the original authors' reputations.
executable form with such an offer , in accord with Subsecti on b above.) The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modi fications to it.
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Si vous n'avez pas encore acheté Sitecom WL-331 c'est un bon moment pour vous familiariser avec les données de base sur le produit. Consulter d'abord les pages initiales du manuel d'utilisation, que vous trouverez ci-dessus. Vous devriez y trouver les données techniques les plus importants du Sitecom WL-331 - de cette manière, vous pouvez vérifier si l'équipement répond à vos besoins. Explorant les pages suivantes du manuel d'utilisation Sitecom WL-331, vous apprendrez toutes les caractéristiques du produit et des informations sur son fonctionnement. Les informations sur le Sitecom WL-331 va certainement vous aider à prendre une décision concernant l'achat.
Dans une situation où vous avez déjà le Sitecom WL-331, mais vous avez pas encore lu le manuel d'utilisation, vous devez le faire pour les raisons décrites ci-dessus,. Vous saurez alors si vous avez correctement utilisé les fonctions disponibles, et si vous avez commis des erreurs qui peuvent réduire la durée de vie du Sitecom WL-331.
Cependant, l'un des rôles les plus importants pour l'utilisateur joués par les manuels d'utilisateur est d'aider à résoudre les problèmes concernant le Sitecom WL-331. Presque toujours, vous y trouverez Troubleshooting, soit les pannes et les défaillances les plus fréquentes de l'apparei Sitecom WL-331 ainsi que les instructions sur la façon de les résoudre. Même si vous ne parvenez pas à résoudre le problème, le manuel d‘utilisation va vous montrer le chemin d'une nouvelle procédure – le contact avec le centre de service à la clientèle ou le service le plus proche.
