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EkoTek System Installation and Configuration Manual Survey

It is however highly unlikely that the signal would pass through more than one wall.

In large rooms such as warehouses, it may be necessary to place more than one

Repeater to ensure adequate radio coverage.

Between Buildings

If buildings are sufficiently close together, radio signals may pass between them.

However, if for example a vehicle passes between the buildings, it may cause signal

deterioration and the Repeater to loose contact with its parent. On a multi-storey building,

it would be better to force the Repeaters on the first floor to form the link between

buildings, by setting the downstream link of the parent to be a specific channel and the

upstream link of the Repeater to be also the same channel.

Mesh Structure

A Repeater can only have one parent at a time, but the principle of a mesh network is that

if a parent goes down, then the Repeater can look to connect to a new parent to reform

the network. If it is unable to locate a new parent, then the network will be broken. It is

therefore important to ensure that if a Repeater is off, then its "child" has a path to another

parent. In most networks this is not a problem, as a Repeater may see many potential

parents.

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