Tuning Mac Address Filtering; Estimating Network Performance - Honeywell OW-CDX050 User Manual

Multinode and Mesh Network Tuning

Tuning MAC address filtering

Further considerations should be made in setting mesh priority in a network and is
dependent upon the role the multinode (or device) plays in the network. For example, if
the mesh network includes a WSG which is then wired to a switch, the following priority
should be assigned to the nodes in the network:
Node type in network
Ethernet switch that uses RSTP
Default gateway, WSG
Any wired multinode directly connecting to
the mesh through a wired Ethernet link
Wireless multinodes
The device with the lowest bridge priority becomes the ROOT node. This device can be
any RSTP compliant device (such as a switch) and not necessarily a multinode. The mesh
priority number does not affect the general topology of the mesh networks.
Tuning MAC address filtering
Wireless Mesh - MAC Address Filtering screen can be used to further customize the
mesh network (only available in auto-mesh mode)
In some cases, you may want to specifically link to one or a few nodes. You can use
MAC Address Filtering to achieve this. For example, if one multinode (A) is used to
stream video to another multinode (B) which is not the ROOT node, you can specify A to
always connect to B and maybe another node for link backup. This allows video to be
delivered using the shortest path to B.
You can also use MAC Address Filtering to specify that a set of nodes NOT to connect
to. For more information on using MAC Address filtering, see
Address Filtering screen

Estimating network performance

The values from the two tables below, (Throughput based on signal strength and
Throughput based on "hops") are based on a best-case scenario. That is, there is little to
no 5.8GHz RF interference sources present while the data was being passed. The values
are also based on the mesh radio only. It does not take into account the stability of the
link for the Field I/O radio to the sensors nor the wireless client link to the AP radio of
the multinode.
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Priority Typical value
Highest 4096
nd
2 highest 8192
rd
3 highest 12288
th
4 highest 16384
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