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COMPLIANCES FEDERAL COMMUNICATION COMMISSION INTERFERENCE STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
COMPLIANCES This device is intended only for OEM integrators under the following conditions: 1. The antenna must be installed such that 20 cm is maintained between the antenna and users, and 2. The transmitter module may not be co-located with any other transmitter or antenna, 3. For all products market in US, OEM has to limit the operation channels in CH1 to CH11 for 2.4G band by supplied firmware programming tool.
COMPLIANCES This device is intended for use in all European Community countries.
CONTENTS COMPLIANCES 3 CONTENTS 6 1 WI-FI SETTINGS 7 Basic Wireless Settings 8 Advanced Wireless Settings 10 Wireless Security 12 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) 13 WPA Pre-Shared Key 14 WPA Enterprise Mode 15 IEEE 802.
1 WI-FI SETTINGS The RG231 model for the 3.5 GHz WiMAX band includes an IEEE 802.11n radio interface for local Wi-Fi communications. The Wi-Fi set up pages include configuration options for the radio signal characteristics and Wi-Fi security. The Wi-Fi configuration pages include the following options. Table 1: Wi-Fi Settings Menu Description Page Basic Allows you configure basic radio parameters. 8 Advanced Allows you configure advanced radio parameters.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings Basic Wireless Settings BASIC WIRELESS SETTINGS From the WiFi menu, click on Basic to configure basic settings for the unit’s Wi-Fi radio interface. The unit’s radio can operate in six modes, IEEE 802.11b/g mixed, 802.11b only, 802.11g only, 802.11n only, 802.11g/n mixed, and 802.11b/g/n mixed. Note that IEEE 802.11g is backward compatible with 802.11b, and 802.11n is backward compatible with 802.11b/g at slower data transmit rates.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings Basic Wireless Settings ■ 11b/g/n Mixed: All 802.11b/g/n clients can communicate with the Wi-Fi radio (up to 150 Mbps), but data transmission rates may be slowed to compensate for 802.11b/g clients. ◆ SSID — The name of the wireless network service provided by the WiFi radio. Clients that want to connect to the network must set their SSID to the same as that of the Wi-Fi radio.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings Advanced Wireless Settings respectively and ensures backward compliance for slower 802.11b devices. (Default: 20MHz) ADVANCED WIRELESS SETTINGS The Advanced Settings page includes additional parameters concerning the wireless network and Wi-Fi Multimedia settings. Figure 2: Advanced Wireless Settings The following items are displayed on this page: ◆ BG Protection Mode — Enables a backward compatible protection mechanism for 802.11b clients.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings Advanced Wireless Settings delivers broadcast/multicast frames in a more timely manner, causing stations in Power Save mode to wake up more often and drain power faster. Using higher DTIM values reduces the power used by stations in Power Save mode, but delays the transmission of broadcast/multicast frames. (Range: 1-255 beacons; Default: 1 beacon) ◆ Frag Threshold – Configures the minimum packet size that can be fragmented when passing through the access point.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings Wireless Security ◆ Pkt Aggregate — A performance enhancement that combines data packets together when the feature is supported by compatible clients. (Default: Enabled) WIRELESS SECURITY The RG231’s Wi-Fi interface is configured by default as an “open system,” which broadcasts a beacon signal including the configured SSID.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings Wireless Security WIRED EQUIVALENT WEP provides a basic level of security, preventing unauthorized access to PRIVACY (WEP) the network, and encrypting data transmitted between wireless clients and an access point. WEP uses static shared keys (fixed-length hexadecimal or alphanumeric strings) that are manually distributed to all clients that want to use the network.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings Wireless Security enter 13 alphanumeric characters or 26 hexadecimal digits for 128-bit keys. (Default: Hex, no preset value) WPA PRE-SHARED Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) was introduced as an interim solution for the KEY vulnerability of WEP pending the adoption of a more robust wireless security standard. WPA2 includes the complete wireless security standard, but also offers backward compatibility with WPA.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings Wireless Security message integrity. The AES Counter-Mode/CBCMAC Protocol (AESCCMP) provides extremely robust data confidentiality using a 128bit key. Use of AES-CCMP encryption is specified as a standard requirement for WPA2. Before implementing WPA2 in the network, be sure client devices are upgraded to WPA2-compliant hardware. ■ ◆ TKIP/AES — Uses either TKIP or AES keys for encryption. WPA and WPA2 mixed modes allow both WPA and WPA2 clients to associate to a common SSID.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings Wireless Security ◆ WPA1_WPA2 — Clients using WPA or WPA2 with an 802.1X authentication method are accepted for authentication. The default data encryption type is TKIP/AES. ◆ EncryptType — Selects the data encryption type to use. (Default is determined by the Security Mode selected.) ■ ■ ■ TKIP — Uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) keys for encryption. WPA specifies TKIP as the data encryption method to replace WEP.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings ACL Settings Figure 7: Security Mode - 802.1X The following items are displayed in this section on this page: ◆ Auth Mode — Configures the 802.1X security mode used by clients. When using 802.1X, either with WPA/WPA2 or on its own, be sure there is a configured RADIUS server in the connected wired network. (Default: Disable) ◆ RADIUS Server — Specifies the IP address of the RADIUS server.
CHAPTER 1 | Wi-Fi Settings ACL Settings The following items are displayed on this page: ◆ MAC Address — Physical address of a client. Enter six pairs of hexadecimal digits separated by colons; for example, 00:90:D1:12:AB:89. ◆ Add — Click to list a new specified MAC address in the MAC Authentication Table. ◆ Operation — Click the Remove button to delete the specified MAC address from the table.
A HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS MODULATION TYPE DSSS / OFDM / OFDM-SISO DATA RATES 802.11b: 11 / 5.5 / 2 / 1 Mbps 802.11g: 54 / 48 / 36 / 24 / 18 / 12 / 9 / 6 Mbps Draft 802.11n (20MHz, 800ns GI): 65 / 58.5 / 52 / 39 / 26 / 19.5 / 13 / 6.5 Mbps Draft 802.11n (40MHz, 800ns GI): 135 / 121.5 / 108 / 81 / 54 / 40.5 / 27 / 13.5 Mbps Draft 802.11n (20MHz, 400ns GI): 72.2 / 65 / 57.8 / 43.3 / 28.9 / 21.7 / 14.4 / 7.2 Mbps Draft 802.
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