The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item | Description |
Wireless | Select „Enable‟ to activate wireless network function of this IP camera, |
Connection | select „Disable‟ to disable it. |
Network Type | Select the network type of wireless connection. |
| Available options are „Infrastructure‟ (Connect the IP camera to a |
| wireless access point), and „Adhoc‟ (This IP camera will become a |
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| devices can discover this IP camera and connect to it without wireless |
| access point). You can set to „Adhoc‟ when you don‟t have any |
| wireless access point, but your computer has wireless network card. |
| Set to „Infrastructure‟ when you have wireless access point, and you |
| have computers with wired network connection. |
Available | Here shows all wireless access points found by this IP camera. Please |
Networks | note not all access points will be displayed at the same time, if the |
| access point you expected to connect does not appear, you may have |
| to click „Refresh‟ button for several times until it appears. The |
| descriptions of all fields is listed below: Connect: You can select the |
| wireless access point you wish to connect here. SSID: the SSID of all |
| found wireless access points will be shown here. Some wireless access |
| point may hide their SSID; in this case, you have to identify them by |
| their MAC address. MAC Address: If you there are many wireless |
| access points in proximity or some wireless access point hides it‟s SSID, |
| you can use MAC address to distinguish them. Signal: Shows the radio |
| signal strength in percent. Channel: Shows the radio channel of this |
| wireless access point. Encryption: Shows the encryption type used by |
| this wireless access point. You must use the same encryption type if |
| you wish to connect to a certain wireless access point. If the wireless |
| access point does not use encryption, „Disabled‟ will be displayed |
| here. Network Type: Shows the network type of a certain wireless |
| access point (Infrastructure or Adhoc). |
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