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2. Install the WHA-5500CPE
„ Pease do not tilt the CPE more than 15 degree angle from vertical.
2.3 Configuration steps
This section describes configuration required for the WHA-5500CPE before it can work
properly in your network.
First, it is assumed that in your LAN environment, a separate DHCP server will be available
for assigning dynamic (and often private) IP addresses to requesting DHCP clients.
Additionally, since you need to perform various configuration changes to the
WHA-5500CPE, including the SSID, Channel number, the WEP key, …, etc., it is
necessary to associate a fixed IP address with the WHA-5500CPE, which is why the
WHA-5500CPE will be shipped with a factory default private IP address of 192.168.1.1
(and a network mask of 255.255.255.0).
Therefore, during the system installation time, you need to build an isolated environment
with the WHA-5500CPE and a PC, and then perform the following steps:
Step 1. Manually change the IP address of the PC to become 192.168.1.3.
Step 2. Connect the PC to the WHA-5500CPE via PoE and change its configuration to a
static IP address based on your network environment. For example, if there is a
DHCP server that assigns IP addresses from the range 192.168.23.10 -
192.168.23.254 to DHCP client devices, it can reserve 192.168.23.10 for the
WHA-5500CPE and then the address pool with the DHCP server becomes
192.168.23.11 – 192.168.23.254.
If there is no DHCP server on your network environment, you just have to make
sure that there is no machine in the environment has the same IP address as
another machine.
Please note that after you change the IP address of the ACCESS POINT, the PC
client may not be able to reach the ACCESS POINT. This is because they may no
longer belong to the same IP network address space.
Step 3. Change the setting of the PC back to “obtain IP addresses dynamically”.
Now you can put the WHA-5500CPE and the PC to your network where the DHCP
server is connected. From then on, any wireless client configured to “obtain IP
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