Matrox Extio 3 Series, User Manual

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16 Matrox Extio 3 Series – User Guide
Private WAN configuration
To configure your Extio 3 extenders for operation over a private WAN:
1
Connect your devices – see “Connecting your Extio 3 devices”, page 28 .
2
Make sure the transmitter and receiver units are on the same VPN and you are connected
to the VPN.
3
Update your firmware to v3.01.50 or higher – see “Updating your Extio 3 firmware”,
page 44 .
4
In the Extio Central Manager software, do the following:

Manually discover the receivers (
Manual device discovery

Scan a list of IP
addresses
).

If the receivers and transmitters are on different subnets, make sure to configure the
receiver units to scan the transmitter subnets (
Receiver

Settings

Transmitter
discovery
).

Assign user(s) to the devices using
Manage users
.

Allow the receiver and transmitter units to connect to one another using
Connection
broker
.

Set
Sharing mode
to exclude guests (
Transmitter

Settings

Connection

Sharing mode

Guest connections

No guest allowed
).

Set
Encoding quality
to
Low
if you require lower bit rate (
Transmitter

Settings

Streaming
).

Set a value for
Network congestion control
(
Transmitter

Settings

Streaming
).
The values are
Off
,
Low
,
Mid
, and
High
,

Set the
Routing scheme
to
Unicast
(
Transmitter

Settings

Streaming
). Note:
This only needs to be done if your setup does not support Multicast packets (for
example, GRE tunnels).

Set
Power recovery policy
to
Always start
(
Transmitter

Settings

More options
).
This will allow the remote units to power up and return to a usable state.