User Guide

2. How to set up an eDMX system from out of the box. - Page 10
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We will now detail each line respectively:
IP Address
This is the IP address of the unit. One of the benefits of the eDMX system
is that it utilises full IP addresses which enable the routing of the eDMX
data across all kinds of switched and unswitched networks.
The IP address is the unique identifier for the Tube.
No two Tubes or devices should be given the same IP address on the same
network.
IP addresses work like a fixture address in moving light terminology,
instead of giving each Tube a start address we give each one a unique
number, thus we can tell the network that Tube 1 is an encoder and Tube
2 is a decoder.
The available IP addresses are 192.168.X.1 through 192.168.X.250
X can be configured by advanced users to something other than 1, but the
default is 1 and we strongly recommend that you keep with this unless
there are good reasons to change.
The address 192.168.1.255 is reserved and as such should never be used
as an IP address of a Tube.
Subnet Mask
This is a TCP/IP specific detail and should only be changed from its default
of 255.255.255.0 by experienced users.
Default Gateway
This is a TCP/IP specific routing detail and should only be changed from its
default of 0.0.0.0 by experienced users.
Wifi Mode
Wifi Mode specify the topology of the wireless network. The standard way
is to use the system in Infrastructure mode, which utilises the WAP as a
data marshal and signal booster. In Ad Hoc mode the Tubes communicate
with each other directly, although this might sound easier with less things
to go wrong the power of transmission and reception is seriously limited
with the Tubes communicating with each other directly and every Tube
must stay in communication with every other for the network to work.
Finally by using the Infrastructure mode switching physical frequencies via
the allocated channels within 802.11 can be performed simply by