Allied Telesis AT-WA7501, AT-WA7500 manual Configuring the 802.11a Radio

AT-WA7500 and AT-WA7501 Installation and User’s Guide

Configuring the 802.11a Radio

The 802.11a radio will communicate with other 802.11a radios that have the same:

ˆSSID (Network Name)

ˆSecurity

For each radio, you can assign up to four SSIDs, creating one primary service set and up to three secondary service sets. Each service set shares the same Advanced Configuration and Inbound Filters settings, but you can customize the security settings. However, most clients do not support a mixed security environment using multiple service sets:

ˆIf you configure security on the primary service set, then you should also configure security on the secondary service sets.

ˆIf you do not configure security on the primary service set, then you cannot configure security on the secondary service sets.

For details, see “When You Configure Different SSIDs with Different

Security Settings” on page 172.

Multiple service sets are used primarily to allow one physical radio to support multiple virtual LANs (VLANs). For details about VLANs, see “Configuring VLANs” on page 187.

The 802.11a radio ships with either the full-range (5.15 to 5.35 GHz) option or the mid-range (5.25 to 5.35 GHz) option. The full-range option can only be used indoors and with the integrated antenna.

If you configure an 802.11a radio as a master radio, it provides simultaneous master and station support. This feature means that not only do you only need one radio in WAPs and point-to-multipoint bridges, but also it can “heal itself.” If the access point can no longer communicate with the Ethernet network, it will try to wirelessly connect to the root through another access point. Any access point that may become a WAP should have a root priority set to 0 and have a secondary LAN bridge priority.

To configure the 802.11a radio

1.From the main menu, click 802.11a Radio. The 802.11a Radio screen appears.

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