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7.11 Fluidmesh Wi-Fi Access Point
Firmware 6.5 and above feature an embedded Wi-Fi access point (AP) that works together with the
standard Fluidmesh mesh interface. The purpose of the embedded Wi-Fi AP is mainly site maintenance
and service. By enabling the Wi-Fi AP, it will be possible to connect to the Fluidmesh radios with a
standard PC or laptop equipped with a Wi-Fi NIC card. To avoid impacting the performance of the
mesh interface, the Wi-Fi access point bandwidth is limited to 5 Mb/s. This can be enough for
maintenance, browsing the network and, in this case, for pulling one camera video. Fig. 7.16 reports
the configuration page for the Wi-Fi AP. The AP can be enable/disable by clicking on the relative box.
By selecting the parameter “Disable SSID Broadcasting”, the user can hide the visibility of the AP by
preventing the AP from broadcasting the specified SSID. “AP Security” indicates the encryption
mechanism used by the AP to encrypt the communication to and from the clients using the encryption
secret “AP Passphrase”. Finally, DHCP parameters must be specified so that the client could be
assigned with a proper IP address automatically during the association phase. Please note that for each
Fluidmesh radio in the network, the Wi-Fi AP, if enabled, should be configured using a different DHCP
IP class so as to avoid IP conflicts between associated clients to different Wi-Fi APs.
Fig. 7.16 - Wi-Fi Access Point Configuration Page