SW5501 – SW5502
Wireless Serial Server
User Manual
Configuration and
setup
After finish configuring the Basic Settings, please click on Save button to keep the change that you have made
.
A
pop
-
up window with message
“
Please wait for a while
…”
will be displayed
.
When the saving is finished, the pop
-
up window will disappear and the web browser will remain on the Basic Settings page
.
If you want to cancel the
change and reset all changes back to their original values, just click the Cancel button
.
4.4.3
Advanced Settings
This subsection provides details on wireless network parameters for performance tuning
.
Changing
options in this
section may affect overall performance of your SW550X; therefore, please
be cautious
.
If you are
still unclear on
the effect of each option,
please refrain from altering it
.
Figure below depicts the
Wireless
Advanced Settings page
.
Figure 4.31
Wireless Advanced Settings Page when Wireless Profile is Disabled and Topology is set to infrastucture
Radio Off
–
When
this option is enabled, this allows the user to turn off the wireless interface completely
.
Fast Handoff
–
This option enables
Atop
’
s proprietary protocol to speed up roaming between AW5500s
(
Atop
’
s Industrial Wireless Serial Device Servers
)
in addition to Fast Roaming
(
next option
).
Enable this option
to allow AW5500 to share its neighboring AW5500 information to SW550X to further reduce its roaming time
.
Fast Roaming
–
Enable this option to allow SW550X to scan for available access points in the background to
speed up roaming when necessary.
Roaming Threshold
–
This option set the threshold level used to determine when SW550X should try to
connect to another access point when the wireless signal drops
below the selected range
.
The available
thresholds are Low
(
25
%)
, Normal
(
50
%)
, and High
(
75
%).
Tx Power
–
This option allows user to set the SW550X
’
s
Transmission Power
.
The transmission power can
be reduced to prevent wireless interference to other wireless networks
.
