AirLive WL-1200CAM - Manual (Page 33)

AirLive WL-1200CAM User’s Manual
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The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Wireless
Connection
Select ‘Enable’ to activate wireless network function of this IP camera,
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
stand-alone wireless network point, other wireless computers / 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 Networks Here shows all wireless access points found by this IP camera. Please
note not all access points will be displayed at the same time, if the
access point you wish 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).
SSID Input the SSID of the wireless access point you wish to connect. It
should be less than 32 alphanumerical characters.
When you select a wireless access point above, it ’s SSID will be filled in
this field automatically. However, if the SSID is not displayed (the
wireless access point you selected choose to hide it ’s SSID), you have
to know it ’s SSID and input it here, or you will not be able to connect it.
Channel Select the radio channel you wish to use here. When network type is
‘Infrastructure’, the radio channel is auto-selected according to the
channel that wireless access point uses. You can only select the channel
number when network type is ‘Adhoc’.
Basic Rate Select the maximum wireless data transfer rate here, from 1Mbps to
54Mbps. Maximum transfer rate for 802.11b wireless network is 11Mbps,
and maximum transfer rate for 802.11g wireless network is 54Mbps.
It ’s recommended to select ‘Auto’, so the data transfer rate will vary