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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point
AW5500
User Manual V. 1.3
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Note: it is possible to setup a Hybrid (Parent) without a Station (Child). The difference between a Hybrid and a Station
is that the Station does not allow wireless clients to associate to it.
For AW5500 quick steps to work as in WDS Mode, the procedure is as follows:
On operation mode choose “WDS Bridge”.
Go to Wireless → Basic Settings; on WDS Mode you can choose whether to use the
AW5500 as a Root AP, Hybrid, or Station. Also as before, you can change the Network
Name (SSID) to your preferred name; you might want to first click on “Scan network” to
find whether there are neighbors with a name matching yours (this is done for preventing
any conflict over networks). From here three different configurations are therefore
possible:
When on Root mode
SSID Broadcast can be disabled here for an additional level of security.
On Wireless Mode, we recommend using 802.11 a/n since it is not as
crowded as 802.11 b/g/n; however this is only possible if it is supported by
your wireless client. Channel and transmission rate can be chosen
automatically by the AW5500, however feel free to change them to the
settings that work for you.
On WDS Settings → Encryption Type, do not leave this option as NONE,
non-existent encryption will result in an easy target for undesired access to
your network.
On Root AP, the MAC address is to be left empty; again the Local Area
network fields should be entered with their corresponding values for the
network being configured.
Save and apply the settings for them to take effect.
When on Hybrid mode
Please remember that the SSID here should be the same as the Root AP. This
also means roaming is possible between APs.
On WDS Settings → Root AP, the MAC address entered should be the
Root/Hybrid’s (Parent’s) Second MAC address that is directly above this
Hybrid AP. It might not be the Root AP’s MAC address if the WDS setup has
a multilayer architecture.
Save and apply the settings for them to take effect.