User's Manual

RADIO CONFIGURATION

(ADVANCED RADIO SETTINGS)

MENU ITEM MENU ITEM DESCRIPTION

Max Transmit Power

(advanced)

Max Transmit Power will control the radio’s maximum output

power. In general, this conﬁguration is only used to reduce the

output power of a radio for regulatory compliance reasons. The

factory default setting should provide the best communication

performance (highest power) in all other situations.

MAC Address

(advanced)

A custom MAC address may be used for this radio. The entered

value MUST be different from ALL other radio MAC addresses

used in the same network or with the same encryption key. All

radios are factory conﬁgured with a globally unique MAC. Since

the MAC address is unencrypted, using a custom MAC that is

periodically changed can help prevent identiﬁcation and tracking

of the same device across multiple uses.

WEB MANAGEMENT INTERFACE REFERENCE

Frequency Each radio should be a assigned a frequency. Two radios must be set to

the same frequency in order to communicate. If the radio is conﬁgured

to use a “Network Default” channel, the radio’s channel assignment can

be managed globally by clicking “Network Conﬁguration” > “Network

Defaults.” Ensure that the frequency is set to match the radio installed

in the unit. A warning will be displayed if the frequency setting does not

match the radio hardware.

Bandwidth Each radio should be assigned a bandwidth. Two radios must be set to

the same bandwidth in order to communicate. Bandwidth should be

increased for shorter distances and decreased for increased distances.

Max Link Dis-

tance

The Max Link Distance should be set to the upper bound of how long

any individual link in the network may need to be. All nodes on the net-

work MUST be set to the same Max Link Distance.

Channel Density The channel density setting controls how aggressively the radios compete

for access to the shared medium. A number of nodes will be displayed in

parentheses after each menu item. Choose the menu item that corre-

sponds to the number of nodes in your network.

Radio Preference Radio Preference instructs the routing protocol to prefer links on a radio

(consider them lower cost than normal). This can be used to help shift traf-

ﬁc towards radios running on certain channels.

None: None is the default factory setting. All links are considered equally.

Medium: Routing protocol is more likely to use this radio to forward

trafﬁc.

High: Routing protocol is signiﬁcantly more likely to use this radio to

forward trafﬁc.