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AW5500 Industrial Wireless Access Point User’s Manual v.1.3 April 2013...
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User Manual V. 1.3 Important Announcement The information contained in this document is the property of Atop Technologies, Inc., and is supplied for the sole purpose of operation and maintenance of Atop Technologies, Inc. products. No part of this publication is to be used for any other purposes, and it is not to be...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Contents Preface ..................... 1 Introduction ....................5 Product Overview ......................5 Features ........................6 Getting Started ..................7 Inside the Package ....................7 Front & Power Panels ....................8 First Time Installation .................... 10 Finding the Device ....................
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.9.4 IP Filtering ...................... 53 4.9.5 Management List ................... 54 4.10 System Log ......................55 4.10.1 Syslog ......................55 4.10.2 Event Log ....................... 56 4.11 System Setup......................57 4.11.1 Admin Settings ....................57 4.11.2 Date/Time Settings ..................
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 System Recovery ................... 97 Warranty ....................99...
Supported Platform This manual is designed for the AW5500 Industrial Wireless Access Point and that model only. Warranty Period We provide a 5 year limited warranty for AW5500 Industrial Wireless Access Point.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Manufacturers Federal Communication Commission Declaration of Conformity Statement Model: AW5500 NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.
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20 cm (7.9 inches). UL Notice for Power supplier The AW5500 series products are intended to be supplied by a Listed Power Unit marked with a “LPS” (Limited Power Source), or “Class 2” and output rate of 9~48 VDC, 1.0 A minimum, or...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Caution Beginning from here there will be extreme caution exercised. Never install or work on electrical cabling during periods of lightning activity. Never connect or disconnect power when hazardous gases are present...
Wireless Access Point device; this example illustrates how to connect serial devices to a local area network or a backbone network, Figure 2.1. The AW5500 series provide several functionalities to support mobile and wireless networking.
User Manual V. 1.3 2.2 Features AW5500 is our latest addition to our Industrial Wireless products; its small size but powerful architecture makes it a perfect choice for industrial/manufacturing needs in which size is a decisive factor. It rewards our customers with superb connectivity. Among its many characteristics, we could mention: ...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 3 Getting Started 3.1 Inside the Package Inside the product purchased you will find the following items: Table 3.1 Item Quantity Description AW5500 Industrial Wireless Access Point Antenna 3~5 dBi antenna...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 3.2 Front & Power Panels The Front (Figure 3.1), and Power panels (Figure 3.2), are as follow: Figure 3.1 Figure 3.2...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 The Rear panel (where you can mount the device on a rail or to the wall), looks as in Figure 3.3, a simple mounting instruction is given on Figure 3.4. For more information on hardware installation, please refer to the product’s installation Guide.
User Manual V. 1.3 3.3 First Time Installation Before installing the device, please adhere to all safety procedures described below, Atop will not be held liable for any damages to property or personal injuries resulting from the installation or overall use of the device. Do not attempt to manipulate the product in any way if unsure of the steps described here, in such cases please contact your dealer immediately.
If the device’s name is double-clicked or the Internet Explorer logo is clicked, Device View would open the Web UI of AW5500 using the system default browser. A window will pop-out that will prompt you to enter username and password (see...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 3.6...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 3.5 Factory Default Settings Upon arrival, the device will be set as Regular AP, the rest of the settings are as follow: Table 3.2 Mode Regular AP WDS Bridge AP Client...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Wireless Isolation Disabled N.A. 20/40 MHz Coexistence (Only be Enabled N.A. supported at 802.11n with 2.4 GHz) Mobile Station SSID AW5500 BSSID (MAC Address) Disabled WPS BUTTON Clickable Topology Infrastructure...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 System Contact Contact System Location Location Read Community None (SNMP disabled) Write Community SNMP Trap Server 0.0.0.0 Email Settings Sender Receiver Blank SMTP Server Authentication Disabled User name Password DHCP Server...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Syslog Server Service Port System Setup Username admin Old Password New Password NULL (Blank) Repeat new password Web Mode HTTP Device name Device’s MAC Address Disabled NTP Server pool.ntp.org Time Zone...
AW5500’s size makes it ideal for small places when considering its positioning without affecting real-time, control and overall performance. 4.2 User Interface Overview AW5500 series’ Web Configuration is designed into three different modes for ease of use to suit customer needs. The Web Configuration appears as follows, Figure 4.1...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 right side of your screen the contents of each mode/option will be displayed in a graphical state. Since each Mode of operation is different, the content will differ, for more information on each selection please refer to each option’s Section throughout the manual.
As you know, 802.11 is a set of standards for WLAN communication at the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequencies. The AW5500 works only with the 2.4 and 5 GHz range. it follows the below mentioned standards: ...
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).
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The basic settings are explained in detail below: Radio On: AW5500 supports up to three multiple SSIDs (AP1, AP2, and AP3).AP1 must be enabled before you can proceed to AP2 and AP3. AP2 and AP3’s settings are only shown when they are enabled. When all three APs are disabled, wireless radio would turn off completely.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 4.4...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 4.5 SSID Broadcast: allow any wireless client to search for this access point presence, it is enabled by default. When the SSID Broadcast is disabled, wireless clients need to manually input the SSID in their wireless client configuration, increasing network security to prevent an access from unsolicited clients.
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“Scan network” to see which channels are already occupied. Bandwidth: when 40 MHz is used, AW5500 will double the channel width to 40 MHz as compared to the standard 20 MHz to transmit its data; this is not recommended for 802.11b/g/n since it will leave only one non-overlapping channel for other APs.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 4.7...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Table 4.3 20 MHz 40MHz upper 40 MHz lower 2.4 GHz Primary channel Blocks Center Blocks Center Blocks Not Available 2-10 3-11 4-12 5-13 6-10 6-13 2-10 7-11 7-13 3-11...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Table 4.5 Data rate (Mbit/sec) MCS index Spatial streams Modulation type 200 MHz channel 40 MHz channel 800 ns GI 400 ns GI 800 ns GI 400 ns GI BPSK 6.50...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.4.3 Security Settings These settings provide an overall network security (according to the user’s needs), by default Wireless Security is Disabled, Figure 4.8. Each AP (SSID) can have its own wireless security.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 A number of Security Settings are available for you: WEP 64/128-bit Hex: stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. Which is a moderately weak security algorithm, and although it implies security in a wired connection, it is weaker than WPA protocols.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 WPA-PSK: stands for Wi-Fi Protected Access. Uses a passphrase generated and entered by the user; this passphrase can be between 8 and 63 characters long. We strongly recommend not to take a passphrase already in use within the network (nor use a variation of personal information publicly available), since this can compromise network’s security, Figure 4.10.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 WPA2-PSK: stands for Wi-Fi Protected Access II. This is a highly recommended setting for the average user. You can select the encryption mode tone of the following: TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol), or AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). Less prone to be hacked than the above one, Figure 4.11.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 WPA2 (RADIUS): designed for enterprise networks, it requires a RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service), authentication server. Although possessing a more complicated setup, security is optimized since passwords are not transmitted between the NAS (Network Authentication Server) and RADIUS, Figure 4.12.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Disabled: no security settings are being used in the current device (comes as factory default), Figure 4.13. This option is highly discouraged since authentication as well as encryption is not performed in this mode.
User Manual V. 1.3 4.4.4 WPS Settings This option is available only when AW5500 is running in the Regular AP mode. WPS stands for Wi-Fi Protected Setup, PBC stands for Push Button Configuration. WPS needs to be enabled before you can Start WPS PBC. To use this feature, first trigger the WPS process in AW550 by pressing the WPS PBC button and click on the WPS PBC button on SW550X’s UI...
WDS Hybrid or a WDS Station, three different encryption types are available, WEP/TKIP/AES The configuration is relatively simple and straightforward; enter the Second MAC of the adjacent AW5500, the adjacent AW5500 could be a Root AP or a Hybrid, Figure 4.15 Figure 4.15...
Figure 4.16 Radio Off can turn off the wireless signal of AW5500 completely. This option only shows in the AP Client mode. To turn off the wireless signal completely under Regular AP mode and WDS Bridge mode, disable all APs in the Basic Settings.
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This option only shows in the AP Client mode. Maximum Signal Distance is used to determine how fast a wireless signal should be timed out. If AW5500 is equipped with an outdoor antenna to reach further distances, increase this value accordingly. ...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.4.7 Wireless Scheduler Settings This function allows you to setup a wireless schedule and disables SSIDs according to the time in a day when necessary. You can have up to 10 rules.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 want this rule to run for the whole day, set 00:00 – 00:00. Scheduler Usage Tutorial: Let’s say there are two sites that are covered by the AP and they have different working hours.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 4.18...
User Manual V. 1.3 4.5 Network Settings AW5500 will get an IP address from a DHCP server connected on the LAN interface, just check “Obtain an IP Address Automatically” for it, Figure 4.19; or enter the values manually if known, Figure 4.20.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 4.19 Figure 4.20 Gratuitous ARP enables to periodically send out an ARP response automatically to announce...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 that AW5500 is in the network. The frequency in minutes could be set in the nearby box...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.6 SNMP Settings The SNMP is used by network management software to monitor devices in a network to retrieve network status information and to configure network parameters. The SNMP Settings shows the configuration of this device so it can be viewed or edited by third-party SNMP software as shown below, Figure 4.21.
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“Write Community”, the group that is allowed to read/modify the device information. By default AW5500 comes in public for Read Community and private for Write Community. In case the device raises an alert due to any unexpected incident, a message will be dispatched to a SNMP trap server.
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.7 Email Settings In case the device raises an alert and/or warning message, it will send an email to the administrator’s mailbox. Email Settings allows you to set up the device to be able to send an email.
IP address to any network device. To enable such functionality, check Enabled to enable the DHCP Server in AW5500; proceed then to fill in the IP Address Range including the “From IP Address” and “To IP Address”, fill in the IP address’ Netmask (or Subnet Mask).
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 4.23 For a look at the current DHCP client table, just click where it says “View the DHCP client table”, if no clients are present there would be a message specifying so Figure 4.24.
AW5500 as inaccessible if not configured properly. If the latter happens, you will need to reset the device back to its default by any of the methods described in...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.9.1 Wired MAC Filtering When connected to the LAN/Ethernet interface, filtering can be done using this option. The setting is simple, intuitive and straight-forward; just choose whether to Allow or Deny packets and proceed to fill in the blanks with the corresponding MAC addresses.
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.9.2 Wireless MAC Filtering Packet filtering in a Wireless environment can be done in an analogous way as the Wired MAC Filtering. In the same way, connection is ensured by allowing or denying packets according to their respective MAC addresses;...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.9.3 Ethernet Type Filtering Ethernet Type Filtering is done according to the packets’ Ethernet type, also known as Layer 3 filtering. As in the two previous sections, there is a maximum of 64 entries for packets’...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.9.4 IP Filtering IP Filtering, as its name implies, is for filtering on the IP protocol, also known as Layer 4 filtering. Continuing its simple design, IP address is added on the Source and Destination Address fields.
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.9.5 Management List The Management List is used to filter the MAC address that has access to the Web management interface. When enabled, only the MAC addresses entered in the Access Control List below has access to the Web UI.
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.10 System Log 4.10.1 Syslog The Syslog function is turned on by default and cannot be turned off. It is used to log system events and report to an external Syslog server if necessary.
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.10.2 Event Log Display the current event log stored in the device. Figure 4.31 Click on “Last Page” to go to the last page. Click on “Next Page” to go to the next page. Click on “Show All Event”...
4.11.1 Admin Settings The AW5500 allows User and password management, the user’s default is as “admin” and the password will be in blank as default. The Device name entry can be changed as well; to set/change their value just follows the steps filling in the corresponding blanks and choose Apply in the end, Figure 4.32.
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.11.2 Date/Time Settings Date and time can be set manually, or using Network Time Protocol (NTP) to automatically synchronizes with a Time Server. For auto-synching check the box below NTP Server Settings “Obtain date/time automatically”...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.11.3 Alert Event There are five events that will trigger the alarm; these alerts are useful for security control or security monitoring, Figure 4.34. Cold Start, when there is a power interruption.
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.11.4 Firmware Upgrade Updated firmware is provided by our company from time to time (for more information visit our News & Events webpage), to fix bugs and optimize performance. It is very important that the device must NOT be turned off or powered off during the firmware upgrading, (please be patient as this whole process might take up to 7 minutes).
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.11.5 Backup & Restore Configuration Once all the configurations are set and the device is working properly, you may want to back up your configuration. Backup can be used when the new firmware is uploaded and it is reset to a factory default settings, it is done to prevent accidental loading of incompatible old settings.
AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.12 System Status Overall AW5500’s info as well as network (and very possibly neighbors’) information will be available when browsing this section. 4.12.1 System Information This section illustrates AW5500’s overall information, Figure 4.37. Figure 4.37...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.12.2 Site Monitor Site Monitor allows users to view the other wireless networks in the neighborhood, it also provides information on other access points such as SSID, Channel, the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator), Security and Link Speed of other access points.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 4.39...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.12.3 Wireless Client Table On this table you may be able to see all the Wireless and WDS device connected to this AW5500, Figure 4.40. Figure 4.40...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.12.4 Traffic Log & Statistics Traffic Log & Statistics shows wireless network and status information; “Refresh Rate” can be changed to automatically reload/update the page, the default being a “no refresh” option, but it can be done manually by clicking on Refresh.
User Manual V. 1.3 4.12.5 DHCP Status AW5500 could distribute IP addresses using the DHCP protocol; a list of clients currently receiving an IP can be accessed by choosing the DHCP Status option. DHCP Client’s MAC Address as well as its IP addresses, Host Name, and Lease Time will be shown in this list Figure 4.42.
User Manual V. 1.3 4.12.6 Ping Use the Ping function to determine whether AW5500 can reach the gateway or other devices in the network or not. This process takes around 20 seconds. Figure 4.43 represents a successful ping while Figure 4.44 means that the connecting device is not reachable.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 4.45. Also, you could use the button located on the Front panel, close to the ANT2; it is conveniently labeled as Reset. Just insert the tip of a paper clip and hold it long enough until the device produce a long beep, release the button and wait for the device to restart.
Regular AP mode which is the factory default and the first option on the screen, allows wireless clients to connect to a network, relaying data between the wired and wireless devices in the network. It allows multiple wireless clients to access the network through AW5500’s Ethernet interface (physical/wired connection). Its corresponding complete menu-tree is as...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 5.2 Steps for a quick setting for the AW5500 as a Regular AP are:...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 On operation mode choose “Regular AP” (if the device is not in factory default). Go to Wireless → Basic Settings; here you can change the Network Name (SSID) to your preferred name, you might want to first click on “Scan network”...
On this mode multiple AW5500 can bridge together to create a Wireless Distribution System. Under this mode, the device uses its second MAC address as its wireless interface instead of the first one. The following details the WDS structure; there are three roles that AW5500 can play in a WDS network: ...
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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).
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 When on Station mode SSID is not present here as there is no AP function On WDS Settings → Root AP, the MAC address entered should be the Root/Hybrid’s (Parent’s) Second MAC address that is directly above the...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Figure 5.5...
Figure 5.6 Remember that your AW5500 can function as both a Regular AP and as an AP Client (the latter connected to the first one). Supposing we already have the network physically installed, the steps for configuring your AW5500 as an AP Client are as follows.
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Then proceed to go to System Information, on the AP Client Information you can confirm your AW5500 is connected to the Network selected if the status field displays a signal percentage instead of disconnected. Also, you may also double check the wireless connection status inside the client table of the connected AP.
The following figure illustrates a standard Access Point serving multiple wireless clients within its signal coverage Figure 6.1 For more information on how to configure your AW5500 as an Access Point please refer to Regular AP Mode. Note: wireless coverage is dependent on the environment.
Ethernet clients. Note that if the Access Point function is not required at the adjacent site (no wireless clients), WDS Hybrid can be changed to WDS Station. Figure 6.2 For more information on how to configure your AW5500 for this topology, please refer to Bridge Mode.
MAC address of the newly added AW5500 (in WDS Hybrid mode) should be MAC address of the AW5500 that it is directly connecting to, not the MAC address of the AW5500 in WDS Root mode. Note that AW5500 in WDS Station mode does not allow both wireless client and AW5500 (in WDS Hybrid mode) to connect in.
If AW5500 is being added to a wireless network where Access Points (AP1) from other vendors already existed, AW5500 could be set to AP Client mode to connect to that AP1 and bridge the Ethernet clients to AP1. This setup is similar to Scenario #2, except that WDS is not used.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Security 64-bit and 128-bit WEP encryption 802.1x authentication AES and TKIP, WPA/WPA2 Others Reset Button: Yes Regulatory requirements EMC: EN 301489-1: 2008, EN301489-17: 2009 (Class A), FCC 15B (Class A), CNS 13438 ...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Table 7.6 Test Item Value Level Contact Discharge ±8KV IEC 61000-4-2 Air Discharge ±15KV IEC 61000-4-3 Radiated(Enclosure) 10(V/m) AC Power Port ±2.0 KV LAN Port ±2.0 KV IEC 61000-4-4 COM Port ±2.0 KV...
Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 7.3 LED Indicators Table 7.8 Name Color Status Description The Access Point (AP) function is enabled and has more than one wireless client connected. Regular AP Green The AP function is enabled and does not have any wireless...
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Wireless Radio is enabled WLAN Green Blinking Wireless Radio is enabled and data is transmitting Wireless Radio is disabled (Mode LEDs should also disable) System is not powered on Blinking...
System recovery is based on the TFTP Client embedded in the device. It can recover the device from a bad firmware or other unknown reasons that corrupted the firmware image inside the flash. Follow the procedures below to force AW5500 to download a valid firmware from the TFTP Server to recover its Operating System.
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Atop Industrial Wireless Access Point AW5500 User Manual V. 1.3 Release the reset pin after you hear seven consecutive short beeps. You should see that the device requested files from your TFTP Server. Please wait until the device shows up on the management utility.
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Products supplied by us are covered in this warranty for undesired performance or defects resulting from shipping, or any other event deemed to be the result of Atop Technologies’ mishandling. The warranty does not cover however, equipment which has been damaged due to accident, misuse, abuse, such as: ...
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