User's Manual

APPENDIXC
RADIOCONFIGURATION
Revised: 27 Jan 2017 APX C-2 ESTeem Horizon Series
RFDataRateConfiguration
TheRFdatarateoftheHorizoncanbeprogrammedfor operationatmultipledatarates.TheRFdataratecanbesetforafixed
rateoraspecificrangethatisdynamicallyscaledbytheHorizonfrommonitoringthereceivedsignalquality.Dynamicscaling
meansthattheHorizonwillope
rateatthehighestRFdataratethatisprogrammedintounit.Ifthereceiv ed dataqualitydrops
belowtherequiredminimumsforreliablecommunications,theHorizonwill reducethedataratetothenextloweststepto
increasesignalquality.ConverselyifthesignalqualityincreasesabovetheminimumstheHorizonwi
llincreasetheRFdatarate
thenexthighestlevel.
TheESTeem Horizonissetatthefactorytooperateatmaximizedscalingspeeddataratesandshouldnotneedadjustment.The
RFDataRateisprogrammedintheHorizonthroughtheAdvancedMenu>WirelessLANSettings>wlan0deviceandthe valuefor
Communicatio
nRatesand802.11nCommunicationRate Index:.Intheex a mpleshowninFigure2theRFDateRateis
programmedtodynamicscalealldatarates(recommendfactorydefaultsetting).Tosetthevaluesforthedatarate,checkthe
boxnexttothelisteddataratetoenablethisratefo
roperation.
Figure2:AdvancedDataRateSelection