User's Manual

EnRoute500 User’s Guide

TR0149 Rev. C5

7 Mesh Radio Configuration

The EnRoute500 has an 802.11a radio dedicated to mesh backhaul traffic. The settings for this

radio are independent of any settings for the radio used for the EnRoute500’s built-in access

points. The majority of the mesh radio settings must be the same on all nodes in a given mesh

cluster for the nodes to be able to communicate.

Figure 27. Mesh interface parameters

7.1 Channel

The 802.11a radio can be set to operate in the channels listed in Table 6. All these channels

are non-overlapping.

Channel Center Frequency (GHz)

149 5.745

153 5.765

157 5.785

161 5.805

165 5.825

Table 6. Mesh radio channels and frequencies

All the nodes in a mesh cluster need to be configured to use the same 802.11a channel. The

mesh radio channel is set as shown in the example below.