User's Manual

Altai A3 Series Dual-band 3x3 802.11 ac WiFi Access Point

Configuration Guide

7. Embedded Tools for Deployment /

Operation / Troubleshooting

A3 products have various tools to help network administrator or

engineer on deployment, operating, and troubleshooting. Tools include

channel scan, ping … etc.

7.1. Channel Scan

Network administrator and engineer collect the status of 2.4GHz radio

and 5GHz radio in the surrounding area. Throughout this tool, network

administrator and engineer collect noise floor, percentage of channel

busy, and the number of BSS in particular radio channels.

Figure 101 – Chanel Scan Result (Overview)

A3 shows the channel scan result into Overview tab and AP List tab.

Overview Tab – displays general information from channel 1 to channel

11. Information includes noise floor, percentage of channel busy, and

the number of BSS on each channel respectively.

AP List Tab - displays information scanned WLAN; information includes

SSID, BSSID, authentication Mode, cipher, channel, rate in kbps, and

received SNR (dB)

7.1.1. How to perform channel scan on 2.4G radio

1. Go to Tools > Channel Scan > Radio 0 (2.4G)

2. [Optional] Provide channel scan interval from 100ms to 1000ms in

Duration

3. Click Start Scan

4. Wait until Scan Status is changed from In Process to Success; it will

take for 20 seconds approximately

Note:

- Wi-Fi service will be interrupted during channel scan