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Reference Manual for the NETGEAR ProSafe Wireless Access Point 802.11g WG302

5-8 Advanced Configuration

July 2005 v3.0

Enabling Wireless Bridging and Repeating

The NETGEAR ProSafe Wireless Access Point 802.11g WG302 lets you build large bridged

wireless networks.

Figure 5-6: Advanced Wireless Settings Access Point Mode settings

Examples of wireless bridged configurations are:

• Client Access Point to Access Point, the default

• Point-to-Point Bridge

• Multi-Point Bridge

• Repeater with Wireless Client Association

These features are discussed below.

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Reference Manual for the 1
NETGEAR ProSafe Wireless 1
Access Point 802.11g WG302 1
Technical Support 2
Trademarks 2
Statement of Conditions 2
Radio Frequency Notice 3
DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY 4
Contents 7
Chapter 1 11
About This Manual 11
How to Use This Manual 12
How to Print this Manual 13
1-4 About This Manual 14
Chapter 2 15
Introduction 15
Key Features 16
Introduction 2-3 17
2-4 Introduction 18
System Requirements 19
What’s In the Box? 20
Hardware Description 20
Introduction 2-7 21
Figure 2-2: WG302 rear panel 21
2-8 Introduction 22
Chapter 3 23
Cabling Requirements 24
Default Factory Settings 25
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ET UP THE WG302 ACCESS POINT 27
Figure 3-2: Login window 28
EPLOY THE WG302 ACCESS POINT 31
4VERIFY WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY 32
Figure 3-7: IP Settings menu 34
How to Configure WEP 43
How to Configure WPA-PSK 47
How to Configure WPA2-PSK 50
Chapter 4 57
Management 57
4-2 Management 58
CLI Commands 59
4-4 Management 60
Management 4-5 61
4-6 Management 62
Statistics 63
4-8 Management 64
Management 4-9 65
Configuration File Management 67
Apply to save your change 69
4-14 Management 70
Chapter 5 71
Advanced Configuration 71
AutoCell RF Management 72
Advanced Configuration 5-3 73
5-4 Advanced Configuration 74
Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) Setup 75
5-6 Advanced Configuration 76
Hotspot Settings 77
5-8 Advanced Configuration 78
Hub or Switch 79
192.168.0.1 80
Segment 1 81
5-12 Advanced Configuration 82
Chapter 6 83
Troubleshooting 83
The LAN light is not lit 84
Troubleshooting 6-3 85
Appendix A 87
Specifications 87
A-2 Specifications 88
Appendix B 89
Wireless Networking Basics 89
802.11 Authentication 91
Open System Authentication 91
Shared Key Authentication 92
Overview of WEP Parameters 93
Key Size 94
Wireless Channels 95
How Does WPA Compare to WEP? 97
Wired Network with Optional 100
802.1x Port Based Network 100
Access Control 100
Wireless LAN 100
July 2005 v3.0 103
Product Support for WPA/WPA2 104
Is WPA/WPA2 Perfect? 104
Appendix C 107
Command Line Reference 107
C-6 Command Line Reference 112
Glossary 113
802.11e Standard 114
802.11g Standard 114
802.11i 114
802.11n Standard 114
Access Point (AP) 115
Ad-Hoc mode 115
Bandwidth 115
Bits per second (bps) 115
Client or Client devices 116
Collision avoidance 116
Crossover cable 116
6 Glossary 118
IEEE 802.11 119
Infrastructure mode 119
ISO Network Model 119
MAC (Media Access Control) 120
Mesh Networks 120
Network name 120
10 Glossary 122
12 Glossary 124
War Driving 125
Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) 125
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) 125
14 Glossary 126
Wireless Multimedia (WMM) 127
Wireless Networking 127
WLAN (Wireless LAN) 127

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