User's Manual

back to its manufacture default settings.
Firmware Upgrade: Click on the “Browse” button to open a FileOpen Dialog box,
where you get to select the firmware file, which you download from the web for the
latest version. Upon selecting the firmware file, click “Upgrade” and complete the
firmware upgrade process when the Access Point re-operates after it restarts.
4. Glossary
Access Point: An internetworking device that seamlessly connects wired and
wireless networks.
Ad-Hoc: An independent wireless LAN network formed by a group of computers,
each with a network adapter.
AP Client: One of the additional AP operating modes offered by 54Mbps Access
Point, which allows the Access Point to act as an Ethernet-to-Wireless Bridge, thus a
LAN or a single computer station can join a wireless ESS network through it.
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII, is one of the
two formats that you can use for entering the values for WEP key. It represents
English letters as numbers from 0 to 127.
Authentication Type: Indication of an authentication algorithm which can be
supported by the Access Point:
1. Open System: Open System authentication is the simplest of the available
authentication algorithms. Essentially it is a null authentication algorithm. Any station
that requests authentication with this algorithm may become authenticated if 802.11
Authentication Type at the recipient station is set to Open System authentication.
2. Shared Key: Shared Key authentication supports authentication of stations as either
a member of those who knows a shared secret key or a member of those who does
not.
Backbone: The core infrastructure of a network, which transports information from
one central location to another where the information is unloaded into a local system.
Bandwidth: The transmission capacity of a device, which is calculated by how
much data the device can transmit in a fixed amount of time expressed in bits per
second (bps).
Beacon: A beacon is a packet broadcast by the Access Point to keep the network
synchronized. Included in a beacon are information such as wireless LAN service area,
the AP address, the Broadcast destination addresses, time stamp, Delivery Traffic