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U ser Manual

 

TB8H

 

 

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Figure 1-1 TB8H  U sing Examples 

 

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Applications 

TB8H  can be used widely in the following 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 converge and rural wireless coverage 

 

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H ardware O verview 

TB8H ’s hardware information is described in the following Table 4:  

Table1-2 H ardware information 

H ardware S pecifications 

C PU /Baseband Radio 

Q C A9557+Q C A9882 

Memory 

128MB DDR2, 16MB Flash 

Physical Interface 

1×10M/100M/1000M Base-TX (C at. 

Summary of Contents for TB8H

Page 1: ...TB8H 802 11a b g n ac 2G 5G O utdoor W ireless AP Internal 5G 18dBi Antenna External 2G 13dBi O mnidirectional Antenna ...

Page 2: ...ns 11 1 7 Hardware O verview 11 2 Installation 12 2 1 C onnections and installation 12 2 2 Restore to the Factory Settings 13 3 Q uick C onfiguration 13 3 1 Log in 14 3 2 Q uick C onfiguration of the Device 16 4 TDMA 19 5 Status 19 5 1 Status 20 5 2 Monitor 21 6 2G 5G W ireless 21 7 Network 24 7 1 Router mode 24 7 2 Bridge mode 26 7 3 Management 26 7 4 Firewall 26 7 5 IP Aliases 27 7 6 Static Rout...

Page 3: ...C O PYRIG HT 2016 C reatC omm Technology U ser Manual TB8H Page 3 10 Tools 31 11 AC NMS 33 12 Logout 33 13 Network C onfiguration Examples 34 Appendix A Troubleshooting 35 ...

Page 4: ...limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If thi...

Page 5: ...of TB8H devices helping them to configure the device and list the troubleshooting so that 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...

Page 6: ...ransmission 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 premises and connected with a carrier s telecommunication channel at the demarcation point ...

Page 7: ...ss link quality The best transmission range and max speed of TB8H can be 867Mbps making it suitable for many applications of W IFI Bridge especially have advantages for point to multi point communication 1 1 Product Advantages The TB8H has the industrial leading technology owing the performance capability of a wireless base station with only a small form factor furthermore it has very attractive l...

Page 8: ...the band to non standard frequency part 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 TB8H device can work at all kinds of outdoor severe environments including 40 to 70 de...

Page 9: ... W PA2 PSK Network Router Bridge O peration Mode Access Point Station W DS Access Point W DS Station W DS Repeater Security MAC 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 multi point performance Auto AC K timing Adjust Supported Management and Logs NTP SNMP Syslog Telnet W eb based C onfiguration ...

Page 10: ...ion modes Access Point Station W DS Access Point W DS Station 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 W eb based working scenario selection makes the installation and setting much easier Reliable PO E power supply support 802 3at standard W eb base...

Page 11: ...nd etc C arrier wireless backhaul and rural area internet last mile wireless solution Enterprise local area network inter connection W IFI signal converge and rural wireless coverage 1 7 Hardware O verview TB8H s hardware information is described in the following Table 4 Table1 2 Hardware information Hardware Specifications C PU Baseband Radio Q C A9557 Q C A9882 Memory 128MB DDR2 16MB Flash Physi...

Page 12: ...8H device in the bridge mode and the installation method of router mode can be seen in C hapter 7 2 1 C onnections and installation The connection of TB8H device to PO E and power supply is shown in Figure Figure 2 1 C onnections at Bridge Mode 1 TB8H Device 2 Antenna O mnidirectional antenna with 2G frequency 3 PO E Adaptor 4 Mount Bracket 5 Mount Bracket ...

Page 13: ...connected to IP C amera and other devices 5 Mount the TB8H securely to the pole by locking the strap tightly 2 2 Restore to the Factory Settings In some cases uses can restore the device to the factory settings Push the reset button for 5 10 seconds until all LED is on This will restore to the factory setting During this process the TB8H s RJ45 ports will be connected and disconnected twice For de...

Page 14: ...onfigure the TC P IP of your 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 Figure 3 1 Local Area C onnection Properties 2 Select Internet Protocol TC P IP and click Properties button and the following dialog box appears ...

Page 15: ...n 1 255 but not 36 since the TB8H 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 5 In Figure input the user name and password default is admin admin the you can log in to the web configuration menu of the TB8H device ...

Page 16: ...of the Device The users will see how to configure the TB8H device quickly in this chapter 1 The first page shown after log in is the Status page which indicates the working status current setting software version and other information of the TB8H device U ser can switch to other pages by clicking the left main menus in Figure ...

Page 17: ...8 1 36 If the user wants to configure the device to Router mode please click Network in the main menu Note If several TB8H devices are connected in the Point to Point or Point to Multi Point topologies they must be configured to different IP address to avoid collisions Figure 3 5 W izard Network 3 After finishing the W izard Network settings click next and it goes to W izard W ireless page shown i...

Page 18: ...reless or 5G W ireless in the main menu Note If two TB8H devices need to be connected in point to point topology one of the device need to be configured as Access Point and the other one need to be configured as Station and both of them should have the same Encryption method Figure 3 6 W izard W ireless 3 click Next The last page of W izard is shown in Figure User can click C hange to save all the...

Page 19: ...s throughput thus suitable for long distance transmission AC K Time out Auto Adjust can automatically detect the distances of the TB8H devices and adjust the wireless parameters to achieve the best link quality The TDMA setting is shown in the following Figure Figure 4 1 TDMA Settings To use the TDMA the user needs to enable TDMA mode in the 5G AP device and set a priority level in the station dev...

Page 20: ...ology Figure 5 1 Status and Monitor 5 1 Status All the configurations in Status page is shown in Table 6 Table5 1 C onfigurations shown in Status Items Description Items Description Device Name Name of the device for example SSID The name of the wireless network ...

Page 21: ...ors the real time throughput of the wireless link Route Table It is stored in a router that lists the routes to particular network destinations and in some cases metrics distances associated with those routes The route table contains information about the topology of the network immediately around it Bridge Table It lists all the devices that communicate through the TB8H device ARP Table It lists ...

Page 22: ...S 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 station means this device is a station in W DS mode W DS AP U se 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...

Page 23: ...t Power O utput power of the device IEEE 802 11 Mode You can choose A N mixed 11AC 11AN mixed 11AC only here C ountry C ode Different countries allows different channels use can 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 TB8H device supports 10MHz 20MHz 40MHz 80MHz bandwidth Max TX Rate Max...

Page 24: ...ured to Router mode U ser needs to connect the PO E port of PO E adaptor to the PO E port of the TB8H After the above connection the TB8H can work as a router The wireless port of TB8H device acts as the LAN port of the router and LAN port of PO E adaptor acts as the W AN port of the router The Network page is shown in Figure ...

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Page 26: ... same as the IP devices of the internet to avoid collision LAN IP LAN IP address LAN Netmask LAN Netmask information Primary DNS and Secondary DNS Please check with the ISP for the information 7 2 Bridge mode In Bridge mode there is no W AN port The LAN port of the PO E adaptor can be the LAN port and the user can use it as LAN port Please refer to above Figure for the connections in Bridge mode a...

Page 27: ...e ingress of wlan0 is limited to 1024Kbps and the egress is limited to 2048Kbps That means the receiving rate of the wireless link is limited within 1Mbps the sending rate is limited to less than 2Mbps But usually the input limited effect is not obviously that s because we could not control how quickly the traffic arrives However when a port sends out egress traffic it can control how quickly the ...

Page 28: ... rate and burst for egress Set burst less than 1 10 of rate limit the rate curve is stable totally Set burst larger than rate limit the rate curve will hold a while at a higher value then down to stable Below is the table that 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 2...

Page 29: ...0 the device which connects with eth0 is also need to support VLAN 10 Figure 7 4 VLAN Settings eth0 8 Advanced The Advanced page is shown in Figure Figure 8 1 Advanced Auto AC K Timeout Adjust It is suggested to enable this function so that the distance between 2 TB8H devices can be detected and all the related parameters can be optimized to achieve the best link quality Distance The distance can ...

Page 30: ...en 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 be updated to the latest version Firmware reboot C lick the Reboot button to reboot the device Restore Factory Settings C lick the Reset button...

Page 31: ...U ser Manual TB8H Page 31 C O PYRIG HT 2016 C reatC omm Technology Accounts The user can modify the user name and password here 10 Tools The Tools page is shown in Figure Figure 10 1 Tools ...

Page 32: ...ion Ping IP Address should be the IP address of the AP the C lient is connecting to Startup Delay specify initial time delay in seconds until first ping request is sent by the Ping W atchdog Ping Failure Specify the number of ping replies If the specified number of ping replies is not received continuously the Ping W atchdog will reboot the device Note If users want to modify the parameters of Pin...

Page 33: ... shown in Figure If you want the device to join the AC management you need AC management at first and then go to the AC NMS page to enable the AC control W TP name indicates the name of the device to show on the AC management W TP location indicates the location information of the device to show on the AC management AC IP AC IP is the IP address of the AC management witch this device should be joi...

Page 34: ...ridge mode disable the firewall and set different LAN IP for the two devices the LAN IP should be on the same segment 2 In 5G W ireless setting page 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...

Page 35: ... manually push the Reset button for 5 10 seconds until all LEDs are light on then the user can log in the device by typing the default IP address 192 168 1 36 3 My computer cannot be connected to the TB8H Access Point Please try the following method to solve the problem 1 Adjust the direction of the TB8H device Please rotate the TB8H device since the antenna inside the device is directional 2 Swit...

Page 36: ...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 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 TB8H device don t work well 6 During the point to point or point to multi point connection when ping from one device to another the latency i...

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