User's Manual

SPEEDLAN 9000 Installation and Operation User Guide
4-16 Using SPEEDView
Combined Tab
This tab displays information regarding the total number of packets moving downstream and
upstream in the network. This tab is used only with star networks.
Note: In star networks upstream is from CPE to base and downstream is from base to CPE.
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 networks. Select the boxes next to the statistics that you would like
to be displayed, as shown below.
• 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 Configu-
rator.
• 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.
Unselected Selected
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