User manual Owner manual

Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point
AW5500
User Manual V. 1.3
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2.4 GHz signaling standard. Although it performs much better than traditional dial-up
networking, its performance is still significantly less than 802.11a and other, newer
standards.
 802.11g; very similar to 802.11b, the main difference being that it is done in a maximum
raw data rate of 54 Mbps (20 Mbps net throughput), at the same 2.4 GHz bandwidth
 802.11n; Improves the amount of bandwidth utilized by using multiple wireless signals
and antennas (MIMO technology) instead of one. Link speed on a 2x2 solution is 300
Mbps on our models.
4.4.1 Wizard
AW5500 comes with a Quick Setup Wizard that will guide you through most of the common
settings. You might find it suffice to follow the wizard and setup the Access Point without the
need to proceed with this manual, (again, this is only applicable for the most basic setups in
each mode).
4.4.2 Basic Settings
To set up a wireless network, several parameters are needed as shown in Figure 4.7. Link
Speed can be optimized up to 300 Mbps by choosing 802.11 b/g/n or 802.11a/n; again,
remember that 2.4 GHz frequency is easily interfered by other devices that operate in the
same region (namely, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Microwave, etc.) so it is better to choose the
802.11a/n which operates in the 5 GHz when your network allows it. Below there is a table
which shows Basic Settings for the device, Table 4.2.
Table 4.2
Caption
Default
AP Enabled (AP1)
Enabled
AP Enabled (AP2)
Disabled
AP Enabled (AP3)
Disabled
SSID
AW5500
SSID Broadcast
Enabled
Wireless Mode
802.11b/g/n
Channel
1 (Automatic Channel Selection box checked)
Bandwidth
Auto 20/40 MHz