Before you permanently install
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Learn to position the antennas with the radio alignment tool
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Train installation personnel
Required items that are not included
You must purchase and install a 50 ohm terminator on each unused antenna
connector of active radios. This protects the transmitter. A rubber, metal, or
plastic cap is not a replacement for a terminator.
You need an administrator computer that has HotView Pro network management
software and appropriate licenses. Before you set up the network, you must
purchase all necessary licenses from your Firetide distributor.
Certification requirement
People who install and manage networks that contain Firetide products must
complete the Firetide certification program.
Doing the tests
For efficiency, you want to configure six to eight mesh nodes at one time.
To do tests and capture data with HotView Pro software:
1.
Put the mesh nodes on a table.
2.
Attach the power cable to each mesh node.
Caution!
You must use the power supply that comes with the mesh node.
If you use a different power supply, you void the product warranty.
Caution.
Do not use port 2 or port 3 of a HotPort 7020 mesh node to
power a HotPort 5020 node. A HotPort 5020 node needs PoE+ or
802.3at, and the ports of a HotPort 7020 mesh node are PoE 802.3af
compliant only.
3.
Attach the staging antennas to each mesh node:
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For OFDM mode, attach one staging antenna to one radio.
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Dual radio MIMO mode, attach more than one staging antenna to each
radio.
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Panel antenna, attach the antenna cables in the correct order to keep
the polarization correct.
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For single radio MIMO, attach multiple antennas to radio 1.
Note:
For specific procedures to attach antennas, see the
Firetide Best Practices
Guide
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4.
Change the IP address of the administrator computer to an IP address on the
same subnet as the default IP address of the mesh node (192.168.224.150).
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