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U S ER MAN U AL

TB5F

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C atalog

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Versions

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Purpose

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N otes

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Definitions

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Product O verview

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Product Advantages

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Electrical S pecifications

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Features

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U sing Example

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Applications

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H ardware O verview

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Installation

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TB5F installation

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C onnections

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Q uick C onfiguration

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3.1

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W izard

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TDMA

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S tatus

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S tatus

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Monitor

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W ireless

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N etwork

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Router mode

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Bridge mode

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Management

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Firewall

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IP Aliases

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S tatic Routes

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Traffic S haping

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VLAN S ettings

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Summary of Contents for TB5F

Page 1: ...TB5F 802 11a n 5G O utdoor W ireless AP ...

Page 2: ...4 U sing Example 9 1 5 Applications 10 1 6 Hardware O verview 10 2 Installation 11 2 1 TB5F installation 11 2 2 C onnections 13 3 Q uick C onfiguration 13 3 1 Log in 14 3 2 W izard 16 4 TDMA 18 5 Status 19 5 1 Status 19 5 2 Monitor 20 6 W ireless 21 7 Network 23 7 1 Router mode 23 7 2 Bridge mode 25 7 3 Management 25 7 4 Firewall 25 7 5 IP Aliases 26 7 6 Static Routes 26 7 7 Traffic Shaping 26 7 8...

Page 3: ... 2016 C reatC omm Technology 8 Advanced 29 9 System 30 10 Tools 31 11 AC NMS 34 12 Logout 34 13 Network C onfiguration Examples 34 13 1 AP and Station Network 34 13 2 W DS AP W DS Station W DS Repeater Network 35 13 3 Router Mode 36 FAQ 37 ...

Page 4: ...t the devices can be used successfully quickly This document mainly contains the following parts hardware information web configuration menu descriptions network configuration examples and troubleshooting It can help the customers quickly be familiar with the devices and use them correctly N o tes This document is to characterize the TB5F series of devices Please read the document carefully before...

Page 5: ...C reatC omm including TDMA 5M 10M 20M 40MHz bandwidth support intelligent rate control Auto AC K Time out adjust having the advantage of long transmission range high date rate and robust transmission 3 AP Access point 4 Station C lient W IFI station that can be associated to an access point 5 C PE C ustomer premises equipment it is any terminal and associated equipment located at a subscriber s pr...

Page 6: ... best wireless link quality The longest transmission range and max speed of TB5F can be 5 Km and 300Mbps making it suitable for many applications of W IFI Bridge AP C PE especially have advantages for point to multi point communication 1 1 Product Advantages The TB5F has the industrial leading technology owing the performance capability of a wireless base station with only a small form factor furt...

Page 7: ...ort more channels near 5 8G Hz band and spread the band to non standard frequency part 4920MHz 6100MHz The advantage of working at the non standard band is to avoid the interference in the standard channels and the wireless throughput can be improved Note Please confirm whether those non standard channels are permitted locally before using them 6 O utdoor industrial product TB5F device can work at...

Page 8: ...PoE Interface PoE O peration Temperature 30 70 Storage Temperature 40 85 O peration Humidity 5 95 RH S o f t w a r e Encryption 802 x W PA PSK W PA2 PSK Network Router Bridge O peration Mode AP Station W DS AP W DS Station W DS Repeater Security MAC IP filter SSID hidden Network protocol TC P U DP ARP IC MP DHC P HTTP NTP TDMA Supported Avoid 802 11 hidden node problems and improve the point to mu...

Page 9: ...tation W DS Repeater Support point to point point to multipoint connection U nique RF and antenna design enables long range transmission W ireless multimedia optimization technology guarantees video audio transmission Q oS W eb based working scenario selection makes the installation and setting much easier Reliable PoE power supply support 802 3af standard W eb based configuration easy to use W at...

Page 10: ... applications W ireless video surveillance free way city police oil pipeline forest and etc C arrier wireless backhaul and rural area internet last mile wireless solution Enterprise local area network inter connection W IFI signal coverage and rural wireless coverage 1 6 Hardware O verview TB5F s hardware information is described in the following Table 4 ...

Page 11: ...n outdoor product and it has the aluminium shell has the IP67 water proof capability and can operate at 30 70 temperature To make TB5F work well in all kinds of complicated outdoor environment the installation is very important If it s not installed well the wireless link quality will be affected and the long term working stability cannot be guarantee too Package contents O pen the package careful...

Page 12: ...ation steps Installation of TB5F can follow the below steps 1 Take all the contents from the package 2 Mount TB5F in a mast and then fix the device on the mast as shown in Figure 5 3 After the TB5F is fixed on the mast protect the Ethernet cable using the water proof connector Figure 4 W ater proof connector and the Ethernet cable 4 Screw the water proof connector well on the TB5F shell ...

Page 13: ...2 C onnections The connection of TB5F device to PoE and power supply is shown in Figure 6 TB5F has 1 RJ45 ports and please connect the device with the PoE power adaptor as shown in the Figure Figure 6 C onnections at Bridge mode 3 Q uick C onfiguration This chapter describe how to configure the device quickly ...

Page 14: ...computer first as the following steps 1 Right click Local Area C onnection icon of your computer and click properties then click C ontinue the Local Area C onnection Properties dialog box appears as Figure 7 Figure 7 Local Area C onnection Properties 2 Select Internet Protocol TC P IP and click Properties button and the following dialog box appears ...

Page 15: ...ut not 36 since the TB5F default IP address is 192 168 1 36 4 W hen the above IP setting is done input the default IP 192 168 1 36 into the address bar of your web browser and the following log in interface appears as shown in Figure 9 5 In Figure 9 input the user name and password default is admin admin click C onfirm then you can log in to the web configuration menu of the TB5F device ...

Page 16: ... software version and other information of the TB5F device U ser can switch to other pages by clicking the left main menus in Figure 10 Figure 10 Status Page 2 C lick W izard in the top right corner the page goes to W izard Network page as shown in Figure 11 and this page helps to set the basic network parameters The default mode is Bridge mode and the default LAN IP address is 192 168 1 36 If the...

Page 17: ...s modes are Access Point and Station Station mode The device acts as a W IFI station and it can be connected to a normal home access point or TB5F access point Access Point mode The TB5F device acts as an access point which allows normal W IFI stations access For detail settings of wireless mode please click W ireless in the main menu Note If two TB5F devices need to be connected in point to point...

Page 18: ...nsmission range high date rate and robust transmission TDMA technology solves the problems of hidden node problem in the 802 11 network infra structure 5M 10M 20M 40MHz bandwidth can be flexibly configured by the uses in different working scenario to achieve the best link quality Intelligent rate control algorithm can be adapted to quick channel quality variations while stabilize the wireless thro...

Page 19: ...Status Status is the first page shown after logging in It shows the current configuration and real time monitoring of the device seen in the following Figure 15 This page is divided into 2 parts Status and Monitor Figure 15 Status 5 1 Status All the configurations in Status page is shown in Table 5 Table 5 C onfigurations shown in Status Items Description Items Description Device Name of the devic...

Page 20: ... Floor value Signal level It indicates the signal strength of the device Link Q uality Q uality of the connection link TX RX Rate The date rate of current device during sending and receiving data Time The real time 5 2 Monitor Throughput The figure here monitors the real time throughput of the wireless link shown in the following Figure 16 Figure 16 Throughput monitor Route Table It is stored in a...

Page 21: ...device AP Station Information Showing the status information of the associated devices For example if the TB5F device is an AP and the associated device is a Station and this Station Information shows the related information of the Station device in the Figure 18 Figure 18 STA Information of an AP If the TB5F is a Station and AP Information shows the associated AP device s information seen in Figu...

Page 22: ...is a station in W DS mode W DS AP Use W DS feature to link multiple APs in a network all associated stations from any AP can communicate with each other like in ad hoc mode W DS AP means this device is an AP in W DS mode W DS Repeater A TB5F device can be configured to W DS Repeater mode so that it can connected to another W DS Station or W DS Repeater SSID Name of a wireless Shown in Figure 20 th...

Page 23: ...choose the country code to only allow the device works at the channels permitted in the particular country C hannel W idth C hannel width selection and TB5F device supports 5MHz 10MHz 20MHz 40MHz bandwidth Max TX Rate Max transmission rate and it can be used to limit the max transmission rate of a device Lock AP MAC In Station W DS Station and W DS Repeater modes users can use this to limit the AP...

Page 24: ...evice can dynamically get the IP address W hen set to Static IP user needs to manually set the IP address Netmask G ateway IP and other information W AN IP W AN IP address It should be set to the same segment of IP address of the internet provided by ISP please check with the ISP for this information W AN Netmask W AN Net mask use can check with the ISP for this information Note W AN IP address sh...

Page 25: ...idge mode and the IP address Netmask information setting is the same as Router mode 7 3 Management The IP address of the device can be modified and the management of the device can be performed by setting the specified management interface 7 4 Firewall W hen the firewall is enabled the device can allow only some devices to be associated to Shown in Figure 23 and there are 4 cases of Firewall filte...

Page 26: ...ecause we could not control how quickly the traffic arrives However when a port sends out egress traffic it can control how quickly the traffic exits Burst defines the how many bytes allowed for downloading uploading during a quick time That leads to momentary throughput can greater than the limit value Figure 24 Traffic Shaping Ingresstraffic entering ath0 control the input rate Egress traffic ex...

Page 27: ...hat reflects the relationship between egress rate limit and burst Egress Throughput when reach stable Rate Limit kbps Burst Kbytes Mbps Description 20000 0 18 853 Stable 20000 20 19 021 Stable 20000 200 19 205 Stable 20000 2000 19 437 From 23 5 down to stable 20000 20000 19 2 Hold on 20 seconds at 24 5 then suddenly down to stable 20000 80000 19 2 Hold on several minutes at 24 5 then suddenly down...

Page 28: ... from eth0 10 or ath0 10 will be added a VLAN label which ID is 10 That requires the opposite wireless connection side must support VLAN 10 the device which connects with eth0 is also need to support VLAN 10 Figure 26 VLAN Setting 2 Below is a common usage Figure 27 C ommon U sage ...

Page 29: ...n default it s enabled Multicast Data W hen it s enabled TB5F devices allow multicast function Device Discover This feature should be used with the C reatC omm tool The tool window will display the MAC address of the device IP address and product name and so on Note when the equipment is found by wireless way please keep multicast support enabled Station Isolation Enable this feature can make conn...

Page 30: ...ure 29 System Backup configuration W hen clicking Download button the current configuration can be backed up to a file U pload configuration W hen clicking browse user can choose the backup configuration file and then click upload so that the configuration stored in the backup file can be applied Firmware update C lick browse button and choose the file and then click update button the firmware can...

Page 31: ...utput power High Encryption W PA W PA2 C C MP Password 1234567890abc Network mode Bridge Mode Device name It can be set to any name needed Login Timeout Login Timeout setting Interface Language Language setting Accounts The user can modify the user name and password here 10 Tools The Tools page is shown in Figure 30 This page is divided into six parts Ping IP Time to Restart Ping W atchdog Telnet ...

Page 32: ...ser defined IP address for example it can be the IP address of the AP the C lient is connecting to If it is unable to ping under the user defined constraints the TB5F device will automatically reboot It is highly recommended that users enable this feature at the side of W ireless Station and disable this feature at the side of Access Point Ping IP Address Specify an IP address of the target which ...

Page 33: ...the time and date information with the NTP server and show the time information in the Status page SNMP G roup W hen this function is enabled use can check the working condition and information of the TB5F device Spectral Scanning The function can view around the 20MHz bandwidth frequency of the use situation this can help you configure the device to avoid busy frequency W hen the spectral scannin...

Page 34: ...management witch this device should be joining in It can be added up to eight W hen the AC control is enabled and the IP address is matched the device can be on line in AC management a client device must be associated to an access point device which is on line on the AC and then it can be on line on the AC management W hen AC control is enabled users can not configure the device through the device...

Page 35: ... IP for the two devices the LAN IP should be on the same segment 2 In wireless menu configure one device to AP mode and the other one to station mode set the same SSID the same channel bandwidth 20MHz for default and set the same encryption and password for both of the devices 3 After the above setting is done wait for a while U sing one computer to ping the other one If the devices are configured...

Page 36: ...eater frequency to be the same for example 5825MHz C onfigure the encryption method and password to be the same 3 To verify if the network is correctly setup please use the computer connected to one of the three devices to ping the IP of any of the other two devices If the ping is successfully the network connection works correctly 13 3 Router Mode In the Router mode the TB5F works as a router and...

Page 37: ...mmended in the outdoor long distance environment Then the user needs to choose a wireless channel and an encryption method 3 Enable DHC PD at the Tools page Please refer to chapter 10 for DHC PD setting 4 W hen the above settings are done use a computer to connect to TB5F device and then check whether the connection is successfully Note U sers can check whether the connection is successfully by pi...

Page 38: ...vice and AP device is not aligned very well including both horizontally and vertically since the antenna of the TB5F is directional 3 The Station device is installed in the windows and the windows glass shields the wireless signal 4 The distance between the AP and Station devices is too far 5 The signal strength is high but the throughput is low 1 There are two much interferences or multi path int...

Page 39: ...There are two much interferences or multi path interferences For example there are two much 2 4G Hz or 5 8G Hz W IFI device working nearby 2 The RJ45 ports of the TB5F device don t work well 9 During the point to point or point to multi point connection when ping from one device to another the latency is too long or the packet is lost 1 Isolate the several APs if they are connected to one PoE swit...

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