User's Manual

46 MDS Mercury 16E Technical Manual MDS 05-6302A01, Rev. B
5.0 TROUBLESHOOTING
5.1 LED INDICATORS
NOTE: When the Subscriber boots up, the PWR LED will be on solid
at first, then begin blinking slowly while the unit initializes.
Once initialized, the
LINK LED will blink slowly while the unit
scans for a Base Station. Once the unit links, the LINK LED
stays on solid.
5.2 WiMAX Statistics
The Maintenance and Status - Performance screen on both the Base Station
and Subscriber provides WiMAX Statistics. This information can be
used for diagnostics and troubleshooting of the wireless link. The WiMAX
Statistics
pane provides packet and byte statistics for both the uplink and
downlink direction.
Table 12. LED Indicators
Indicator Activity Meaning
PWR ON Primary power present
Blinking Fast Unit is alarmed
Blinking Slow Unit is intitializing
OFF No primary power
LAN ON LAN detected
Blinking Ethernet traffic
OFF No LAN connected
COM1 Blinking Data traffic
OFF No data traffic
GPS ON Internal GPS receiver is synchronized to satellite
network
OFF Internal GPS receiver is not synchronized
LINK (Base
Station)
ON The Base Station is operational and transmitting
OFF The Base Station is not transmitting/not ready yet
LINK
(Subscriber)
ON The Subscriber is linked to a Base Station
Blinking slow The Subscriber is scanning
OFF The Subscriber is not linked to a Base Station/not
ready yet
USB ON USB activity on Host port
OFF No USB activity