Macsense Connectivity AeroPad Mini user manual IP Setting

Channel: This is the channel that AeroPad Mini will operate on. The channel selection can range from1 to 11 for North America (FCC) domain, 1 to 13 for European (ETSI) domain and 1 to 14 for Japanese domain.

Wireless Mode: The topology of your wireless network. If your wireless network has an access point, then set the Wireless Mode to "Infrastructure". If you are connecting computer-to-computer, without the existence of an access point, then set the Wireless Mode to "Ad-Hoc". Default is "Infrastructure".

Authentication Type: If your wireless network is protected with encryption, then the authentication type must be selected here. There are three options for authentication type: “Open System”, “Shared Key”, and “WPA-PKS”. Default is "Open System".

Note: The AeroPad Mini must use the same authentication type and WEP Key as the access point is configured for, otherwise the AeroPad Mini will fail to connect to the wireless network.

For both the "Open System" and "Shared Key" authentication, a WEP Key is required. The key can be 64 or 128-bits.

Using WEP encryption on a wireless network can protect your data while it is transferred from AeroPad Mini to the access point. However, network performance is lower because the access point must decode and encode each piece of data moving from and to your AeroPad Mini.

Mode: There are two types of methods for entering the WEP encryption key, “HEX” and “ASCII”.

A Hexadecimal WEP key is comprised of any number 0 through 9 and/or letter A through F. A 64-bit key requires 10 hex digits, or a 64-bit key requires a 26 hex digit. Example of a 64-bit and 128-bit hex keys are "AB843E72DF" and "ABCDEF12345678901234567890", respectively.

An ASCII WEP key is made up of any number 0 through 9 and/or letters A through Z.

1, 2, 3 and 4: WEP key is entered in either one of the four the key slots. The slot number has to match the WEP key slot defined in the access point.

If WPA-PSKis enabled, user needs to set the key in the Passphrase field. The key length should be 8 characters at least. Once WPA-PSK function enables, it will take some time to make the setting active.

Apply: Click the “Apply” button to save any of the changes that were done to the AeroPad Mini. The changes have been saved and will be effective once the AeroPad Mini is restarted.

Cancel: Click the “Cancel” button to clear any changes.

5.3 IP Setting

This page configures the IP Address of the AeroPad Mini. This is also the IP Address by which you use a web browser to access the web-config pages of the AeroPad Mini. It is very important that you know the IP Address of the AeroPad Mini, because otherwise, you won't be able to configure AeroPad Mini any more.

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