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User’s ManUal

Industrial-grade, long-range wireless Ethernet systems

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Wireless Ethernet Access Point

and Subscriber Unit Radios

AW58100HTA

AW58100HTS

Summary of Contents for AW58100HTA

Page 1: ...User s Manual Industrial grade long range wireless Ethernet systems AvaLAN W I R E L E S S 5 8 GHz Outdoor 100 Mbps Wireless Ethernet Access Point and Subscriber Unit Radios AW58100HTA AW58100HTS ...

Page 2: ...0HTA includes The AW58100HTS includes 1 AW58100HTA Access Point Radio 1 Heavy Duty Pole mount Brackets 1 AW POE Power Over Ethernet Injectors 1 AW 12VPS 12VDC 0 5A Power Supplies 1 AW58100HTS Subscriber Unit Radio 1 Heavy Duty Pole mount Brackets 1 AW POE Power Over Ethernet Injectors 1 AW 12VPS 12VDC 0 5A Power Supplies Table of Contents Quick Start Guide 3 Physical Setup 5 Digital Configuration ...

Page 3: ... as a surveillance camera with a TCP IP interface You can determine that the radios are communicating without an external data source by browsing to the radio on the other side of the RF link from your PC Step 2 Make the connections Connect the devices as shown in the diagram Do not point the two radio antennas directly at each other because their close proximity will overload the radio receivers ...

Page 4: ... particularly if you have a lower resolution monitor or are using Firefox as your browser If the two radios are communicating you will see a line in the Wireless Clients sec tion with the MAC address of the Subscriber Unit The Signal Strength box will indi cate whether the receivers are being overloaded Re position antennas if necessary to bring the signal strength below 30 dBm Utilizing state of ...

Page 5: ...y over long distances 4 Power is provided to the units by means of their Ethernet cables allowing the power supplies to be located at convenient locations The included power over Ethernet injectors POE provide the means for adding DC power to unused wires in the cable The POE male RJ 45 connector may be plugged into your network router or at the remote site your remote data source such as a camera...

Page 6: ... Quick Set 4 Each screen provides a menu on the left to navigate from section to section The menu looks like this when sections are expanded In addition many screens drill down when an area within the screen is clicked In the upper right of the screen is a label that tells you the ver sion of the web interface If the version number is not the same as shown below you might want to visit www avalanw...

Page 7: ...t The current IP Address is shown Click it to bring up the page that allows you to change it A special notation is used for this entry Use x at the end of the IP Address to specify the subnet mask 8 for 255 0 0 0 16 for 255 255 0 0 24 for 255 255 255 0 and 32 for 255 255 255 255 Enter a new IP Address and sub net making sure you will be able to browse to the new address with your com puter Also ma...

Page 8: ...bring up the Interface Wireless_Radio page The second line down in the content table shows the current SSID and pro vides a text box to change it Change the SSID to a new value of your choice and click OK or Apply You will need to browse to the radio s IP Address and login again after the change 4 Setting the Encryption Pass Phrase On the same page as above for setting the SSID a box is provided f...

Page 9: ...shown in the table on the last page of this manual Make sure that you choose channels for Access Point units operating in proximity that do not overlap The default Channel Width is 20 MHz which provides the highest possible data rate More range can be achieved at the expense of data rate by choos ing a narrower Channel Width Your choices are 5 10 or 20 MHz Change to the Frequency and Channel Width...

Page 10: ...omprehensive information choose Wireless from the Main Menu at the left side of the window The Wireless page leads to most of the useful status information This page has two tabs Interfaces and Associations 1 Interfaces Tab This provides a list of the interface processes running in this ra dio If it is a SU there will be only one Wireless_Radio If it is an AP there will also be a WDS process runni...

Page 11: ...page you can click on the WDS process line to see similar information about traffic with just that particular radio 2 Associations Tab This provides a list of radios that are connected showing their MAC addresses how long the connection has been up seconds since last activity Transmit and receive signal strength in dBm and the transmit and receive data rate in use Clicking on the white text line b...

Page 12: ... interface unlocks some additional features if you login as an advanced user instead of the standard user described earlier in this manual From the browser initial login page if you enter a user name of adv_user with a password of passw0rd a zero replacing the o you will see and be able to do anything the standard user user name admin can do plus some additional tasks Obviously you can change the ...

Page 13: ...adio in operative by doing so Tools Four different diagnostic tools are provided here to facilitate troubleshooting and performance optimization WinBox Downloads a simple finder utility that can be used on Windows compatible PCs to locate AW58100 family products on your LAN Tools 1 Bandwidth Test This is a tool that will generate a high volume of traffic for a particular radio link and produce a g...

Page 14: ...t Ping uses ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol to request a packet from the target device waits for a return and then immediately sends another request You can specify the IP address to ping the packet count packet size in bytes and the timeout in milliseconds 3 IP Scan The radio will scan a range of addresses by default its entire subnet and report back the MAC address and other information a...

Page 15: ...o download a utility for instal lation on your PC Windows win32 compatibility only It may be possible to run it on Linux or MAC OSX by using a Windows emulator such as Wine By clicking the discovery button labeled any AvaLAN AW58100 family products on your LAN will be reported You may also see other devices as well if they respond to the CDP protocol used by the utility The popup window will show ...

Page 16: ...anty does not cover defects resulting from misuse or modification of the product Limited Warranty Frequency Channels Frequency Band Frequency MHz Non overlapping 20 MHz Bandwidth Non overlapping 10 MHz Bandwidth Non overlapping 5 MHz Bandwidth 802 11a Upper Band FCC specifies for Outdoor use 5730 OK 5735 OK OK 5740 OK 5745 OK OK OK 5750 OK 5755 OK OK 5760 OK 5765 OK OK OK 5770 OK 5775 OK OK 5780 O...

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