WNDAP330 Netgear Prosafe Wireless –N Dual-band Netgear Access Point extending the wireless network at your growing business office with an Advanced Speed and Coverage with Comprehensive Internet Security.
In your growing business, extending the network wirelessly is easier than running backbone network cable to link one or more Switches for more wired connections to the computers. You just need Netgear Access Point to extend the network with WNDAP330 Netgear Prosafe. WNDAp330 is powered by the fastest wireless network standard available at the market today – wireless –N draft 2.0 802.11n standards.
For larger coverage with multiple separate buildings or warehouses, you can configure this Netgear Access Point with point to point and point to multipoint bridging with WDS (Wireless Distribution System). Netgear Prosafe supports WDS which allows network to be expanded using multiple wireless access points without the need to run wired backbone to link them, as is traditionally required.
How good the wireless network is? WNDAP330 Netgear Access Point with advanced speed and coverage can provide up to 10x the coverage and 15x the speed of normal wireless –G networks. The dual band version of this Netgear Prosafe is selectable either 5 GHz or 2.4 GHz radio bands. If your computers are using 5 GHz band version wireless adapters such as WNDA3100 RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N USB Adapter, you can select the clear band 5 GHz. But if your network still consists of legacy clients, you can select 2.4 GHz radio band while maintaining the wireless –N clients on the network experience superior throughput and range.
The good thing is that this Netgear Access Point support Power over Ethernet that allows you install the Access point in areas where power outlets are not available. Connect the Ethernet port of this Netgear Prosafe to the Switch with PoE cable ports such as GS724TP. The only one (1) 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit –Ethernet (RJ-45) port with Auto Uplink™ (Auto MDI-X) is IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) support.
The figure below shows a simple form of WNDAP330 connection diagram. For home usage when your broadband internet connection uses modem (Cable / ADSL) with built-in firewall/router feature, you can connect the LAN port (RJ-45) of the modem using the network cable (included with the modem) to the Ethernet port of access point.
To secure the wireless connection, you can use the latest industrial wireless encryption WPA/WPA2, but for legacy clients using Wireless –G devices – the 64-bit / 128-bit WEP encryption can be used. For the company that has a RADIUS server for the authentication, this WNDAP330 Netgear Access Point supports 802.1x RADIUS authentication ––with EAP TLS, TTLS, PEAP.
Network Management
For the purpose of remote configuration and management can be done through Web browser, SNMP or telnet with Command Line Interface (CLI). SNMP management supports SNMP ––MIB I, MIB II, 802.11 MIB and proprietary configuration MIB.
Advanced Wireless Features
This Netgear Access Point can be configured in multi-mode operations including:
- Point-to-point wireless bridge mode for interconnecting two networks
- Point-to-multipoint wireless bridge mode for interconnecting multiple networks
- Or Repeater mode function
- Simultaneous wireless bridge and access point mode
- Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
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