User's Manual

Altai A8n (ac) Series Super WiFi Base Station

Configuration Guide

7. Embedded Tools for Deployment /

Operation / Troubleshooting

A8n (ac) 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 91 – Chanel Scan Result (Overview)

A8n (ac) shows the channel scan result into Overview tab and AP List

tab.

Overview Tab – displays general information from channel 1 to channel

11 at different sector. 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)