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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. Figure
7.15 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.
Figure 7.15: Wi-Fi Access Point Configuration Page