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WIRELESS MESH CONFIGURATION ................................................. 71
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 71
Wireless Mesh screens ........................................................................................... 71
General screen ..................................................................................................................... 71
Wireless Mesh - Radio screen ............................................................................................. 77
Wireless Mesh - Encryption screen ...................................................................................... 80
Wireless Mesh - MAC Address Filtering screen ................................................................... 81
Setting up wireless networks ................................................................................. 82
Point-to-Point network .......................................................................................................... 83
To set up a wireless mesh (network) .................................................................................... 86
Point-to-Multipoint network ................................................................................................... 90
Mesh network configuration ................................................................................................. 93
Repeater network configuration ........................................................................................... 94
MULTINODE AND MESH NETWORK TUNING ................................... 97
Monitoring signal strength ...................................................................................... 97
To access the monitoring tool: ............................................................................................. 97
Mesh tuning for optimal settings ........................................................................... 98
Tuning the mesh link Signal Strength threshold .................................................. 99
Tuning the mesh priority ......................................................................................... 99
Tuning MAC address filtering ............................................................................... 100
Estimating network performance ......................................................................... 100
Throughput based on signal strength ................................................................................. 101
Throughput based on "Hops" and signal strength .............................................................. 103
MULTINODE OPERATION AND MONITORING ................................ 105
Overview ................................................................................................................. 105
Monitoring/Reports screens ................................................................................. 105
System Status .................................................................................................................... 106
Mesh Protocol Status ......................................................................................................... 107
Mesh Site Map ................................................................................................................... 108
Wireless Clients ................................................................................................................. 109
Adjacent AP Lists ............................................................................................................... 110
System and Web Access Logs ............................................................................. 110
System Logs ...................................................................................................................... 110
Web Access log ................................................................................................................. 110
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