User's Manual

Version 3.03 SPEEDLAN 9000 Series Installation and Operation User Guide
8-18 Using SPEEDView
Stats Setup Tab
This tab allows you to set up the statistics that display on the Downstream, Upstream
and Combined tabs. This tab is used only with star and point-to-point networks. Select
the boxes next to the statistics that you would like to be displayed.
• You can also click Select All (to display all statistics) or None (to select no
statistics).
• Click Zero Counters to temporarily set all packet, byte, polls and missed
counters to zero (0).
• Click Reset Counters to put the counters back to their original values.
The following are statistics you can select to display on the Downstream, Upstream and
Combined sub tabs:
Note: All statistics on this tab are updated every 3 seconds.
• Hostname: The name of the host. Hostnames are set using the SPEEDLAN
9000 Configurator.
• IP Address: This is the IP address of the node.
• Uptime: The amount of time the node has been running.
• RSSI: The Receive Signal Strength Indicator, not measured in dBm.
• Noise: The amount of interference before the packets were received (not
measured in dBm), the lower the better.
• Rx Pwr (dBm): This is the signal strength expressed in dBm.
• Noise (dBm): The noise before the packets were received in dBm.
• SNR (dB): The Signal-to-Noise Ratio, the higher the better.
• Noise & Signal: A combined graphical depiction of signal and noise
percentage.
Figure 8-15: Noise & Signal graphic
Noise & Signal Legend:
Noise: gray color = noise
Signal:
Light green = good activity
Dark green = acceptable activity
Yellow = poor activity