SW5502C
Wireless Serial Server
User Manual
Configuration and
setup
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
.
P2P Button – SW550XC has an external physical WPS button called P2P Button, which can create “WI-FI
direct” and “serial auto link” communication. The setting is enabled by default. Please refer to Section 5.3.5
for the operation steps.
Fast Handoff
–
This option enables
Atop
’
s proprietary protocol to speed up roaming between AW5500Cs
(
Atop
’
s Industrial Wireless Serial Device Servers
)
in addition to Fast Roaming
(
next option
).
Enable this option
to allow AW5500C to share its neighboring AW5500C information to SW550XC to further reduce its roaming
time
.
Fast Roaming
–
Enable this option to allow SW550XC 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 SW550XC 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 SW550XC’s
Transmission Power
.
The transmission power can
be reduced to prevent wireless interference to other wireless networks
.
Regulatory Domain
–
This
can be selected from 4 options in the drop
-
down list box
:
CN
(
APL1_WORLD
)
,
EU
(
ETSI2_WORLD
)
, TW
(
APL3_FCCA
)
, US
(
FCC5_FCCA
)
, and VN
(
ETSI3_WORLD
).
Note that different
Regulatory Domains will result in different radio channels
/
frequencies being allowed SW550XC to operate
(
see Channel
setting in previous subsection
).
STP
–
The Spanning Tree Protocol is only available in the AP Client mode
.
Enable this option if STP is enabled