Wilan LIBRA 5800 AP, User Manual

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Testing the units
June 2003 Rev 0 131
This number represents the signal strength at each ODU receiver. It should be somewhere
between -60 and -65 dB. You can change the RSSI number by adjusting the TX Power. It is
recommended that you set this parameter to 10 for bench testing. See
Setting Tx Power, page 74
7. Press Esc to exit Linktest and return to the command line prompt.
Performing simple network tests
The purpose of this step is to test the ability of the wireless link to operate as part of a wired network.
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To perform a simple network test
1. Power up the Libra units.
2. Using the configuration PC or PDA, login to the AP (or Base for P-P) as “supervisor” and check
the AP/Base configuration settings. Perform the following checks.
• Access the System Security screen and ensure that System Ethernet Access and System
Wireless Access are set to On.
• Enter the Radio Configuration screen and ensure that the RF Center Freq are set to the
frequency you want.
• Enter the Remote Station Configuration menu and set up each CPE (not needed for P-P).
• Remove any CPEs present in the polling list that are not running as part of this test.
Do this by setting their Radio Station IDs to 0 in the remote Station Configuration screen
(Not needed for P-P).
• Access the Network Configuration menu and ensure that you have set the Internet IP
Address and Internet IP Mask.
3. Connect the configuration PC/PDA to the Libra CPE/remote serial port and check the same
configuration settings as in Step 2. The IP Address and Subnet Mask of the remote CPE/Remote
and PC/PDA must match, or you will not be able to run a ping test. For example, if the PC/PDA
has an IP Address of 192.168.2.10 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, the Libra CPE/Remote
must have an IP Address of 192.168.2.n, where n is any number between 1 and 254
except 10.
4. Run ping across the wireless link from a PC on the AP side to a PC on the CPE side.
5. Use ftp to send a large test file from a PC on the AP/Base side to a PC on the CPE/Remote side.
(This requires that an FTP server application run on the PC connected to the CPE/Remote.).
When the file transfer is done,
ftp displays the size of the file and the time it took to transfer the
file. From this information, calculate the data transfer rate and ensure that it meets system
performance expectations