PLANET ICA-HM220W User Manual
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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 expected 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). 
