BUFFALO 09101577-0 Air Station (High Power Wireless Router) User Manual WHR HP G54 Manual indd

BUFFALO INC. Air Station (High Power Wireless Router) WHR HP G54 Manual indd

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41If you have a mixed mode network, with both 802.11b and 802.11g clients, it’s recommended that you check 11g protection to ensure that slower 11b clients don’t hog all available bandwidth.Choosing Auto for Wireless mode lets both 802.11b and 802.11g clients connect to the network. If you would prefer to allow only one or the other, you have those options as well.Two different framebursting modes are available. These can double throughput in your network if all clients are confi gured to use them. 125* High Speed Mode is an improved version of Framebursting and is highly recommended if your clients support it. If a framebursting mode is enabled and some of your clients don’t support it, it simply won’t be used.Reducing the Output Power below 100% will reduce the range of your router.802.11g (Basic)
42Buffalo recommends that you choose the strongest form of encryption that’s supported by all your client devices.• WEP is a lot better than nothing, and almost every wireless device ever made supports it.• TKIP is slower than WEP but much more secure.• AES is the most secure of all, and the quickest as well. Use it if you can.Setting the key renewal period too short can decrease network performance.802.11g (Security)
43To setup a bridge between two or more wireless access points, select Enable and click on Apply. For more on setting up WDS, see page 67, or click on Help at the top right corner of the screen.Bridge/Repeater (WDS Bridging)
44MAC Access LimitYou may limit access to your wireless network to specifi c computers. Computers not listed on your MAC Registration List will not be able to connect to the network. If you enable this, click Edit Registration List to add MAC addresses to your registration list.
45MAC Access Limit (Edit Registration List)Advanced SettingsEnter a MAC address and click Apply for each client that’s going to be accessing the network.
46Here, you can change your AirStation’s name on your network and the administrator password. The name of the administrator account is fi xed as “root”. If you have many AirStations on your network, having clear, descriptive names for each can make them much easier to administrate.Admin Confi guration (Name/Password)
47You may set the time and date on your AirStation by entering it manually, and then clicking Apply.You may also click Acquire Current Time from your PC to set time and date automatically to match the PC you’re using to set it up. If you have an NTP time server on your network, Enable NTP functionality and enter your NTP Server Name. Choose how often you want time updated and click Apply.If you’re setting time manually, you’ll need to select your Time Zone and click Apply.Admin Confi g (Date/NTP)
48If you have a syslog server on your network, you may send logs to it. Check Enable to have logs transferred. Enter the address of your Syslog Server, check the logs you want transferred, and click Apply.Syslog Transfer
49Once your AirStation’s confi gured the way you want it, you can save the confi guration here. You’ll need the current administrator password to restore the confi guration from the backup fi le later.Click Help at the top right corner of the page for more information on backing up and recovering system confi guration fi les. Save/Load Confi guration
50Click Restart Now to restart your AirStation. Click Initialize Now to restore your AirStation to factory defaults and restart it.Initialize/Reboot

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