User manual

Page 5 February 2010
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION ............................................................................ 7
1.1 NETWORK TOPOLOGY.....................................................................................................7
1.2 GETTING STARTED QUICKLY ........................................................................................10
CHAPTER TWO INSTALLATION ............................................................................. 11
2.1 GENERAL ......................................................................................................................11
2.2 ANTENNA INSTALLATION..............................................................................................11
2.2.1 Dipole and Collinear antennas.................................................................................13
2.2.2 Directional antennas. ...............................................................................................14
2.3 POWER SUPPLY.............................................................................................................15
2.4 SERIAL CONNECTIONS ..................................................................................................15
2.4.1 RS232 Serial Port ................................................................................................15
2.4.2 RS485 Serial Port ................................................................................................16
2.5 DISCRETE (DIGITAL) INPUT/OUTPUT.............................................................................18
CHAPTER THREE OPERATION............................................................................. 19
3.1 START-UP......................................................................................................................19
3.2 SELECTING A CHANNEL ................................................................................................21
3.3 DEFAULT CONFIGURATION ........................................................................................... 22
3.4 CONFIGURING THE UNIT FOR THE FIRST TIME ............................................................... 22
3.4.1 Set PC to same network as WI-MOD-E .................................................................. 22
3.4.2 Set WI-MOD-E to same network as PC ..................................................................25
3.5 NETWORK CONFIGURATION..........................................................................................27
3.6 ETHERNET DATA...........................................................................................................29
3.7 NORMAL OPERATION....................................................................................................30
3.8 RADIO CONFIGURATION................................................................................................ 31
3.9 SPANNING TREE ALGORITHM / REDUNDANCY ..............................................................33
3.10 MULTIPLE AP REPEATER MESH NETWORK................................................................... 34
3.11 ROUTING RULES ........................................................................................................... 42
3.12 WIRELESS MESSAGE FILTERING.................................................................................... 44
3.13 SERIAL PORT CONFIGURATION......................................................................................46
3.13.1 RS-232 PPP Server..............................................................................................46
3.13.2 Serial Gateway.....................................................................................................51
3.13.3 ModBus TCP to RTU Gateway...........................................................................53
3.14 DIGITAL INPUT/OUTPUT................................................................................................ 54
3.15 MODBUS I/O TRANSFER ...............................................................................................54
3.16 MODULE INFORMATION CONFIGURATION ..................................................................... 59
3.17 REMOTE CONFIGURATION.............................................................................................63
3.18 CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES .........................................................................................64