User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Product Overview
- Installation
- Initial Setup
- Basic System Configurations
- View System Status
- Advanced System Configuration
- Management
- SmartConsole
- Appendix
TRENDnet User’s Guide
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Wireless Networking and Security
Tips to Improve Wireless Recepon
There are a number of factors that can impact the range of wireless devices. Follow these
ps to help improve your wireless connecvity:
• Keep the number of obstrucons to a minimum. Each obstrucon can reduce
the range of a wireless device. Posion the wireless devices in a manner that will
minimize the amount of obstrucons between them.
9 For the widest coverage area, install your access point near the center of your
home, and near the ceiling, if possible.
9 Avoid placing the access point on or near metal objects (such as le cabinets and
metal furniture), reecve surfaces (such as glass or mirrors), and masonry walls.
9 Any obstrucon can weaken the wireless signal (even non-metallic objects), so the
fewer obstrucons between the access point and the wireless device, the beer.
9 Place the access point in a locaon away from other electronics, motors, and
uorescent lighng.
9 Many environmental variables can aect the access point’s performance, so if
your wireless signal is weak, place the access point in several locaons and test
the signal strength to determine the ideal posion.
• Building materials can have a large impact on your wireless signal. In an indoor
environment, try to posion the wireless devices so that the signal passes through
less dense material such as dry wall. Dense materials like metal, solid wood, glass or
even furniture may block or degrade the signal.
• Antenna orientaon can also have a large impact on your wireless signal. Use the
wireless adapter’s site survey tool to determine the best antenna orientaon for your
wireless devices.
• Interference from devices that produce RF (radio frequency) noise can also impact
your signal. Posion your wireless devices away from anything that generates RF
noise, such as microwaves, radios and baby monitors.
If possible, upgrade wireless network interfaces (such as wireless cards in computers)
from older wireless standards to 802.11n or 802.11ac. If a wirelessly networked device
uses an older standard, the performance of the enre wireless network may be slower.
If you are sll experiencing low or no signal consider reposioning the wireless devices,
installing addional access points or wireless extenders.