Lancom Systems 3550 - Manual (Page 51)

LANCOM 3550 Wireless
࡯ Chapter 6: Point- to- point connections
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Thus it is recommended for the 5 GHz band that one central access point
should be configured as 'Master' and all other point-to-point partners should
be configured as 'Slave'. In the 2.4 GHz band, too, this setting simplifies the
establishment of point-to-point connections if the automatic channel search
is activated.
 It is imperative that the channel selection scheme is configured cor-
rectly if the point-to-point connections are to be encrypted with
802.11i/WPA.
6.1 Antenna alignment for P2P operations
The precise alignment of the antennas is of considerable importance in estab-
lishing a P2P path. The more central the receiving antenna is located in the
"ideal line" of the transmitting antenna, the better is the actual performance
and the effective bandwidth
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. If the receiving antenna is outside of this
ideal area, however, significant losses in performance will be the result
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 Further information about the geometrical alignment of wireless
paths and the alignment of antennas with the help of LANCOM soft-
ware can be found in the LCOS reference manual.
6.2 Configuration
In the configuration of point-to-point connections, entries have to be made
for the point-to-point operation mode, the channel selection scheme and the
MAC addresses of the remote sites.
Configuration with
LANconfig For configuration with LANconfig you will find the settings for P2P connec-
tions under the configuration area 'Interfaces' on the 'Wireless LAN' tab.
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Click on the button Physical WLAN settings to open the corresponding
WLAN interface and select the tab for 'Point-to-Point'.
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