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Tools
Tools:
provides network utilities in a pop-up window:
Align Antenna:
This utility allows the installer to point and optimize the antenna in the direction of
maximum link signal. The “RSSI Range” slider bar allows the range of the meter to be either
increased or reduced. If the range is reduced, the color change will be more sensitive to signal
fluctuations.
Click the
Align Antenna
button and the new pop-up window with signal strength indicator will
appear.
RSSI Range
slider can be used to change an offset of the maximum indicator value. Window
reloads every second displaying current value of the signal strength.
Ping
: This utility will ping other devices on the network directly from the N-Tron 702-W device.
Ping utility should be used for the preliminary link quality and packet latency estimation between
two network devices using the ICMP packets. Remote system IP can be selected from the list which
is generated automatically (
Select destination IP
) or can be
specified manually
. The size of the
ICMP packets can be specified in the
Packet size
field. Estimation is done after the number of ICMP
packets (specified in
Packet count
field) is transmitted/received. Packet loss statistics and latency
time evaluation is provided after the test is completed.
The test is started using the
Start
button.
TraceRoute
: Allows tracing the hops from the N-Tron 702-W device to a selected outgoing IP
address. It should be used for finding the route taken by ICMP packets across the network to the
Destination host
.
Resolution of the IP addresses (symbolically rather than numerically) can be enabled by selecting the
Resolve IP address
option.
The test is started using the
Start
button.
