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  • Page 1       COMMANDO AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Wireless Bridge Configuration Guide...
  • Page 2 OVERVIEW COMMANDO AirONE series AIR-CPE5K+ Bridge enables communication between wireless and wired computers/laptops and mobile devices in the networks over 5km distance without physical wiring. It has 4 in 1 mode of operation like AP, Super WDS (Default Mode), Repeater, Gateway Modes and operates at 900Mbps bridge with WPA/WPA2-PSK encryption and Inbuilt Wi-Fi channel analysis.
  • Page 3 Master/Slave. H: CPE will work as Master. C: CPE will work as Slave. S(Select) Button for selection purpose. DC input power 12V, 1 A. Table 2.COMMANDO AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ LED indication LED Indicator LED Status Green OFF: No power. Power Green ON: 24V POE/ DC power given.
  • Page 4 LED Indicator LED Status Green ON: Device is Power ON Green OFF: Device is Power OFF It is 4 in 1 mode, Outdoor bridge with Gateway Mode, Super WDS Mode (Default Mode), Repeater Mode & AP Mode with range up to 5Km with 500mW input Power. It is industrial grade Wall/Ceiling Outdoor bridge with speed up to 900Mbps.
  • Page 5 INTRODUCTION COMMANDO AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ is WEB GUI based easy to use and manage device. It requires minimal configuration, so setup is simple and hassle-free. Auto-negotiation senses the link speed of a network device in wired 10/100/1000Mbps and also for wireless clients. It intelligently adjusts for compatibility and optimal performance by DFS and setting channel bandwidth 20/40/80MHz wireless band and also can check free channels available with inbuilt Wi-Fi analysis.
  • Page 6 • Multiple Operational Modes like Gateway Mode, Super WDS Mode, Repeater mode, AP mode. All COMMANDO AirONE series Bridge default mode is Super WDS mode. • Support Super WDS mode, device can act as AP as well as Bridge both simultaneously and can connect multi point to multi point connection to other bridges and APs (Up to 4).
  • Page 7 H means Host/Master, XXX means channel, C means Client, XXX means Slave Channel. Both master and slave channel to be same. How to take access of COMMANDO AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ ? Access information written on backside of device as given below.
  • Page 8 Note: New Firmware version supports access IP 192.168.2.1 with password commando 1. Wired access Via LAN port connected to PC. Step 1: Power ON AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ with the help of Adaptor 12V, 1A or 24V PoE adaptor in WAN port.
  • Page 9 Fig 2. IP setting in PC connected to AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Note: For New firmware Version set any IP address from 192.168.2.2 to 254 and Gateway of PC to be set as 192.168.2.1. 2. Wireless access Via SSID connected to PC.
  • Page 10 Step 1: Power ON AirONE AIR-CPE5K+. Step 2: Connect Default SSID named “COMMANDO CPE5K” with the help of default Wi-Fi Password “66666666” or “commando” – refer product label for password. Step 3: Click on properties of SSID “COMMANDO CPE5K”. Step 4: Edit IP setting from DHCP to Manual and set any IP address from 192.168.188.1 to 252 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and Gateway of PC to be set as 192.168.188.253.
  • Page 11 Fig 4. Edit IP setting from DHCP to Manual as shown for COMMANDO CPE5K Note: All Default SSID and password can be changed as per user requirement. For New firmware Version access IP 192.168.2.1. Open any web browser like Chrome/Firefox/Internet Explorer/Opera etc and enter default IP address 192.168.188.253 in address field.
  • Page 12 Fig 5. Login page for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Default Password: admin or commando Note: Password can be changed as per user choice. Default password is written on backside of device. According to firmware default password can either admin or commando.
  • Page 13 Fig 6. Home page after login AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 14 HOME After login, home page will be showed. This page will show device Information like CPU Usage, Memory Usage, LAN/WDS/WAN Information like IP Mode Get IP From AC/Gateway/Static, Status with 5G Wi-Fi Clients Status with information like SSID, Channel, Bandwidth, Encrypt, MAC Address, with Uptime, Flow in bps for bridge Downstream and bridge Upstream.
  • Page 15 Fig 1.1.1 Home page Components of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ In Device location you can add the bridge description by clicking on Click Settings...
  • Page 16 Fig 1.1.2 Changing Device Location of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 1.1.3 New Device Location of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 1.2 LAN/WAN Information In LAN Information you can find the IP Mode, LAN IP, Subnet, Gateway and MAC Address. In WAN Information like WAN IP address, Gateway, DNS and MAC Address.
  • Page 17 Fig 1.2.1 LAN information of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 18 Fig 1.2.2 WAN information of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 19 Fig 1.2.3 WDS information of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 1.3 Wi-Fi Information In Wi-Fi Information, Status along with number of clients connected to AP, SSID, Channel used, Encryption and MAC Address of Bridge is shown.
  • Page 20 Fig 1.3.1 Wi-Fi Information of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 1.4 Clients List Clients list along with number of clients connected to AP, MAC address of clients connected, Signal strength of clients’ connection along with connection time is shown. We can learn about users in network with all vital information. Fig 1.4.1 Clients list of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 21 1.5 Bridge WDS UP/Down stream Flow (5G Wi-Fi) bps In Flow (5G Wi-Fi) bps you can monitor the Upstream and Downstream bandwidth in bps. Fig 1.5.1 Flow (5G Wi-Fi) bps of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...

  • Page 22: Setup Wizard

    SETUP WIZARD After clicking setup Wizard page, you can set device in Gateway Mode, Repeater Mode, AP Mode & Super WDS Mode (Default Mode). It provides flexibility to configure wireless bridge based on network scenario which makes this Bridge future proof. You are required to select corresponding operation mode first before starting the configuration.
  • Page 23 Channel width, Encryption and Time reboot if required. Fig 2.1.1 Gateway mode of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 2.1.2 Gateway mode WAN Setting of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 24 Fig 2.1.3 Gateway mode Wi-Fi Setting of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Note: The device will restart for the changes to take effect for mode changes to Gateway mode 2.2 Super WDS Mode In Super WDS mode, Scan Repeater SSID whose password is known and configure WDS setting.
  • Page 25 Fig 2.2.1 Super WDS mode of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 26 Fig 2.2.2 Scan (AP BSSID) Bridges/AP for connecting AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 27 Fig 2.2.3 Super WDS mode scan Bridges/ SSID for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 2.2.4 LAN Setting Super WDS mode of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 28 Fig 2.2.5 Wi-Fi Setting in Super WDS mode of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Note: It is recommended to keep timing off. The device will restart for the changes to take effect for mode changes to Super WDS mode. SSID, Channel, Channel width & password can be changed as per user requirement 2.3 Repeater Mode In Repeater mode, Scan Repeater SSID whose password is known.
  • Page 29 Fig 2.3.1 Repeater mode of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 30 Fig 2.3.2 Selecting Repeater SSID of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 31 Fig 2.3.3 Setting 5G Wi-Fi setting of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Note: The device will restart for the changes to take effect for mode changes to Repeater mode. This repeater SSID password is password of scan SSID with matching encryption. 2.4 AP Mode In AP mode, Set LAN setting from static IP, AC or gateway.
  • Page 32 Fig 2.4.1 AP mode of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 2.4.2 Setting IP mode for AP mode of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 33 Fig 2.4.3 Setting 5G Wi-Fi for AP mode of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Note: It is recommended to keep Wi-Fi Timer OFF. The device will restart for the changes to take effect for mode changes to AP mode.
  • Page 34 CPE MANAGE CPE Manage will display working bridge channel along with Device List, Description, MAC Address, IP Address, Signal, Online/Offline Status & Uptime of connected bridge. Fig 3.1.1 CPE Manage of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...

  • Page 35: Wifi Setting

    All italic config options are only available in Gateway mode only. 4.1 Wi-Fi Setting We can set Wi-Fi SSID, Band, Bandwidth, Channel. Wi-Fi Status: On mean SSID is available for wireless clients. Wi-Fi Status: Off mean SSID not available. Note: By default Basic Wi-Fi SSID “COMMANDO CPE5K”...
  • Page 36 Fig 4.1.1 Wi-Fi setting of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Wi-Fi Analyzer is a handy tool which helps you to select a better channel and mainly to analyze the AP’s signal strength and channel, to make user easier to choose the channel with less Wireless Interference. Fig 4.1.2 5G Wi-Fi Analyzer button of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 37 Fig 4.1.3 5G Wi-Fi Analyzer of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Important Note: You can change SSID name, Encryption and Wi-Fi password as per your choice to be used by wireless clients. 4.2 WDS/Repeater Settings WDS/Repeater Settings like scan AP BSSID, Encryption, Channel, Password of scan SSID and bandwidth can be set.
  • Page 38 Fig 4.2.1 WDS Setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K 4.3 MAC ACL Settings MAC ACL Allow or prohibits the wireless users access into this device based on MAC address. Filters using MAC address of wireless client. If you permit or allow few clients, then automatically all other non-allowed client cannot associate with AP.
  • Page 39 Fig 4.3.2 Select MAC address of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 4.4 Advance Setting In Advanced setting can set Country Region, Maximum Clients, Channel, WLAN Partition, Short GI, Multicast Fast, TX Power. Fig 4.4.1 Default Advanced setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 40 Fig 4.4.2 Selecting Country Region for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 4.4.3 Setting Maximum wireless clients in 5G for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 41 Fig 4.4.4 Selecting WLAN Partition for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 4.4.5 Selecting Short GI for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 42 Fig 4.4.6 Setting Multicast Fast for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 4.4.7 Setting Tx Power for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...

  • Page 43: Network Config

    NETWORK CONFIG LAN Settings: It can set Lan IP (Access IP), Subnet & DHCP Server, Start and maximum DHCP address, DHCP Lease Time and client list along with utilized IP count. Static DHCP: The DHCP Static IP Mapping feature enables assignment of static IP addresses with MAC address without taking IP addresses from DHCP pool with manual bindings.
  • Page 44 DHCP Server: A DHCP Server is a network server that automatically provides and assigns IP addresses to wireless client devices. It relies on the standard protocol known as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol or DHCP to respond to broadcast queries by clients. Fig 5.1.2 Setting DHCP for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 5.2 Static DHCP Setting A static IP address binding is ultimately set by an administrator and does not change.
  • Page 45 Fig 5.3.1 Default Static DHCP for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 5.3.2 Static DHCP scan for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 46 Fig 5.3.3 Station list for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 5.4 WAN Settings You can set WAN Connect Method, MTU and DNS Manually along with Primary, Secondary DNS. Fig 5.4.1 Default WAN Setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 47 Fig 5.4.2 Changing Connect type manually for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 5.4.3 Set DNS manually for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...

  • Page 48: Security Center

    SECURITY CENTER URL Filter Settings: URL filtering is a type of web filtering and is used to restrict web content. IP Filter Settings: IP Filter bars filter IP to access the Bridge SSID. MAC Filter Settings: MAC Filter bars filter particular MAC to access the Bridge SSID. Security Settings: It can set Rule for particular TCP or UDP Protocol for selected wireless client IP with port mapping function.
  • Page 49 Fig 6.1.1 Default URL filter setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 6.1.2 Setting URL filter for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 50 Fig 6.1.3 URL filter setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 6.2 IP Filter Settings IP Filter bars filter IP to access the Bridge SSID. Fig 6.2.1 Default IP filter setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 51 Fig 6.2.2 Setting IP filter for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 52 Fig 6.2.3 IP filter setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 6.3 MAC Filter Settings MAC Filter bars filter MAC to access the Bridge SSID. Fig 6.3.1 Default MAC filter setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 53 Fig 6.3.2 Setting MAC filter for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 6.3.3 MAC filter setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 6.4 Security Settings...
  • Page 54 A security setting monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic and permits, or blocks data packets based on a set of security rules. It can help protect your network by filtering traffic and blocking outsiders from gaining unauthorized access. Fig 6.4.1 Default Security setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 55 Fig 6.4.2 Security Rules setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 6.4.3 Security setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 6.5 DMZ Settings...
  • Page 56 DMZ or demilitarized zone is a physical or logical subnetwork that contains portion of your network carved off and isolated from the rest of your network of an organization's external-facing services to an untrusted, usually larger, network such as the Internet. The main benefit of a DMZ is to provide an internal network with an additional security layer by restricting access to sensitive data and servers.
  • Page 57 Fig 6.5.2 DMZ setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...

  • Page 58: Device Manage

    DEVICE MANAGE Configure: Back up to save the configuration file to PC connected. Restore Bridge to known configuration. Reset the factory default settings. Reboot: It possible to schedule an automatic reboot of Bridge. Modify Password: You can create password as per your choice and even change the admin password for login to device.
  • Page 59 configurations made in Bridges. In cases when you need to reset the Bridge to factory default settings, you will be able to restore your previous configuration using the backup configuration file. This will save you time by not going through the process of reconfigure the Bridge manually.
  • Page 60 Fig 7.1.2 Taking backup of AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.1.3 Restore to known Configure for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 61 Fig 7.1.4 Reset to factory default for AirONE AIR-CPE5K 7.2 Reboot Setting It possible to schedule an automatic reboot of AP. The configuration will not be lost after rebooting. The Internet connection will be temporarily interrupted while rebooting. Fig 7.2.1 Default reboot setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 62 Fig 7.2.2 Instant Reboot setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.2.3 Enable timed reboot for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 63 Fig 7.2.4 Enable daily reboot for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.2.5 Enable Restart interval for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Recommendation: It is strongly recommended to disable reboot to avoid network disruption and outage. 7.3 Modify Password Setting On this page, you create password as per your choice and even change the admin...
  • Page 64 You can modify the factory default password of the Bridge and create new user password to manage the device. Note: The factory default password is admin or commando depending on firmware version is mentioned in backside of device. Fig 7.3.1 Modify password page for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 65 Fig 7.3.2 Setting New password for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.3.3 New password to be entered to login AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Recommendation: It is strongly recommended to change default password admin or commando which is used to access device. 7.4 Upgrade Setting Version displays the current Configuration version of the AP.
  • Page 66 Fig 7.4.1 Default Upgrade page for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.4.2 Upgrade with no previous configuration for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Note: It is advised to take backup of the configuration before upgrading.
  • Page 67 7.5 Time Setting System Time is the time displayed while the Bridge is running. On this page you can configure the system time and the settings here will be used for other time-based functions like Logs. In time setting you can set System Time, Time Zone, Set Time Automatically and with help of NTP service.
  • Page 68 Fig 7.5.2 Disable NTP and Sync with host for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.5.3 Enable NTP and select time zone for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 69 Fig 7.5.4 Enable NTP with Manual IP setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.5.5 Selecting well know NTP server for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 70 Fig 7.5.6 NTP server for AirONE AIR-CPE5K 7.6 Log Setting The Logs can record Bridge information effectively. The logs allow thorough tracking, alerting, and analysis when something does go wrong. It also determines the root cause of any issue.
  • Page 71 Fig 7.6.1 Default Log setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.6.2 Turning OFF Log setting for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.6.3 Remote Log service setting IP for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 72 Fig 7.6.4 Enabling Remote Log server setting IP for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Recommendation: It is strongly recommended to turn OFF logs to avoid excessive CPU cycles, Memory usage and hanging of Bridge in long term. 7.7 Flow Control Enabling flow control can optimize the bandwidth requirement and improve the network experience for important applications, especially in the bandwidth hungry wireless client environment.
  • Page 73 Fig 7.7.1 Default Flow control page for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.7.2 Enabling Speed limit for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 74 Fig 7.7.3 Flow control page for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 7.8 IP Group A single IP address divides into two sections: Network ID and Host ID. The Network ID defines the logical group where devices belong. Similarly, we can define IP group which tells Bridge what IP group name and associated IP address are available for wireless users.
  • Page 75 Fig 7.8.1 Default IP group page for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.8.2 IP group name and associated IP address for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.8.3 IP group page for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 7.9 Time Group It can create Time Group with time range and set frequency of operation for particular activity to operate in specified time.
  • Page 76 Fig 7.9.1 Default time group for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.9.2 Setting Time group for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...
  • Page 77 Fig 7.9.3 Time group for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ 7.10 DDNS Settings DDNS (Dynamic DNS) server provides a fixed domain name for DDNS client and maps its latest IP address to this domain name. Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is an Internet service that allows controller with varying public IP addresses to be located using Internet domain names.
  • Page 78 Fig 7.10.1 Default DDNS page for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+ Fig 7.10.2 Enable DDNS page for AirONE AIR-CPE5K+...