The Cisco Aironet series of access points are used largely by businesses and local hotspots that need the robustness of a Cisco product and the ease of use of a small office/home office (SOHO) product.The Cisco 1100 Series Access Point provides 802.11b/g services, operating on the 2.4GHz band. Unlike most SOHO router/AP products, the Cisco 1100 does not include a built-in switch and can only be used as a standalone wireless access point.

The easiest way to configure the Cisco 1100 is to connect via the Web interface. You will need to assign your local host a static IP between 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.10, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and a default gateway of 10.0.0.1.You may use either a straight-through Ethernet cable or a cross-over cable from your host computer to the Ethernet port on the access point.

When you power up the access point, it will attempt to connect to a DHCP server. If none exists, after a few moments the access point will default to the static IP of 10.0.0.1. If no connection is made within five minutes, it will default back to searching for a DHCP server indefinitely.To restart the process, unplug the access point for a few seconds, and retry the connection.