ZyXEL Communications B-3000 User Manual

ZyAIR B-3000

802.11b Wireless Access Point

Quick Start Guide

Version 3.50

5/2005

ZyAIR B-3000

Overview

The ZyAIR B-3000 offers highly secured wireless connectivity to your wired network with IEEE 802.1x, Wi-Fi
Protected Access, WEP data encryption and MAC address filtering. This Quick Start Guide shows how to set
up and configure the ZyAIR to allow wireless clients to access your wired network. See your User’s Guide for
more information.

The following lists what you need to do:

1. Hardware Connections 4. Hardware Installation

2. Accessing the Web Configurator 5. Power over Ethernet (optional)

3. Internet Access Setup 6. Troubleshooting

1 Hardware Connections

You need the following:

Power Adaptor Computer

Note: You may need your Internet access information.

ZyAIR

Ethernet Cable

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Do the following to make hardware connections for
initial setup.

1 Using an Ethernet cable, connect the ETHERNET

port to a computer for initial configuration.

2 Connect the POWER 12VDC socket to a power

source using only the included power adaptor for
your region.

Note: Connect the ZyAIR ETHERNET port to an

Ethernet jack with Internet access after you
have completed the initial configuration.

1.1 The LEDs

The PWR and the ZyAIR LEDs turn on when the power
is connected. The ETHN LED turns on, if the
ETHERNET port is properly connected.

See the ZyAIR Front Panel LED Description table in the
User’s Guide for more information.

2 Accessing the Web configurator

Use Internet Explorer 6.0 and later or Netscape
Navigator 7.0 and later versions with JavaScript
enabled.

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2.1 Set Up Your Computer’s IP Address

This section shows you how to assign your computer a static IP address in the 192.168.5.2 to 192.168.5.254
range with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. This ensures that your computer can communicate with your
ZyAIR. The following instructions are for the Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP operating
systems.

1 In Windows XP, click Start, Control Panel.

In Windows 2000/NT, click Start, Settings, Control

Panel.

2 In Windows XP, click Network Connections.

In Windows 2000/NT, click Network and Dial-up
Connections.

3 Right-click Local Area Connection and then click

Properties.

4 Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) (under the

General tab in Windows XP) and click Properties.

5 The Internet Protocol TCP/IP Properties screen

opens (the General tab in Windows XP).

6 Select Use the following IP address and fill in the IP

address (choose one from192.168.1.3 to

192.168.1.254), Subnet mask (255.255.255.0), and
Default gateway (192.168.1.2) fields.

7 Click OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

Properties window.

8 Click Close (OK in Windows 2000/NT) to close the

Local Area Connection Properties window.

Close the Network Connections screen.

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