AW58300HTA AW58300HTS User’s Manual 5.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Thank you for your purchase of this member of the 5.8 GHz Outdoor 300 Mbps family of wireless Ethernet radios. The AW58300HTA is a radio with dual omnidirectional antennas. It serves as an Access Point (master) in a point-to-multipoint network. The AW58300HTS is a radio with a dual flat panel high gain directional antenna. Multiple AW58300HTS radios can serve as a Subscriber Units (clients) in conjunction with an AW58300HTA.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Quick Start Guide To create a point-to-multipoint system, you need one AW58300HTA Access Point and one or more AW58300HTS Subscriber Units. We recommend connecting and powering up the units on the bench before deploying in the field because it is much easier to troubleshoot problems and to adjust the configuration if necessary without having to climb poles to do it. Activate the AW58300HTS units one at a time until they can be given distinct IP addresses. Step 1.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Step 4. Browse to the Access Point’s interface: Enter http://192.168.88.12 into your web browser’s address bar. If you are successful, you will see a login page like this: click If not, the browser will time out and you will need to double check the IP addresses and subnet masks. If you think that the IP address of the radio has been changed, you can find it using a utility available from the AvaLAN website. Go to www.avalanwireless.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Step 6. Browse to the AW58300HTS Subscriber Unit. If it is linked successfully to the Access Point, you can do this through the wireless link. If not, connect it directly to your PC. The starting “Quick Set” page for the Subscriber Unit looks like this: Step 7. If there is more than one AW58300HTS in your system, repeat step 6 for each unit.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Physical Setup 1. If the factory default digital configuration is satisfactory, you can proceed directly to physical deployment. If you wish to make any changes, you may want to perform the procedures in the next section before mounting the radios in their final locations. Particularly if data security is important, you will likely want to change passwords and encryption keys. If RF interference sources are present, you may want to change the channel frequency or bandwidth.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Digital Configuration Connecting to the radio 1. Digital configuration is done by means of the radio’s built in browser interface. The unit should be powered on and connected at least temporarily to a network containing a computer that can run a conventional web browser. 2. Using your web browser, connect to the radio as described in the Quick Start Guide found earlier in this manual. 3. The initial page after a successful login is “Quick Set.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Changing The Configuration - Step by Step Please be aware that if you change the IP Address or User Password and forget their new values, you have locked yourself out of the browser interface. The AW58300 runs self-diagnostics at boot-up and will auto-correct most system configuration errors. Prior to calling technical support, it is recommended to power cycle the radio and confirm that the problem remains.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual 2. Setting the User Password: • On the Main Menu at the left side of the browser window, click “System”, then click “Password.” • Enter the old password and the new password twice in the boxes indicated. • Click the “Change” button. • Log out and log back in to test. 3. Setting the Channel Width, Frequency, SSID and AES Encryption Key: • On the Main Menu at the left side of the browser window, click “Wireless.” This loads the Wireless Tables page.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual • The Channel Width should be left at 20/40 MHz HT Above. This is the only supported option for this product. • The Frequency dropdown box provides many more choices than are useful (or even legal). The only supported choices here are 5805 MHz (the default) or 5745 MHz. • The SSID is an arbitrary character string that must be set alike in all linked radios. • The AES Encryption Key is also an arbitrary character string that is used to generate the 128 bit key.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Viewing Status Information After configuring your AvaLAN radios and establishing links among them, you can use the browser interface to view status and troubleshooting Information. The initial “Quick Set” page will show whether the wireless link is operating and the current signal strength. For more comprehensive information, choose “Wireless” from the Main Menu at the left side of the window. The “Wireless” page leads to most of the useful status information.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Most of the information on the top part of this page was covered in the Digital Configuration section of this manual. The status information in the lower part of the page is mostly self-explanatory. Here are a few additional notes: • Tx/Rx Rate shows the current instantaneous values in kilobits per second. The Byte graph below shows the history of the same information. • Tx/Rx Packet rate and graph show packets per second transmitted and received.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Advanced User Mode There is an alternate login mode that provides two occasionally useful functions that are not available to the normal user. These functions allow the Advanced User to update the radio’s firmware and to perform a bandwidth self test. To enter this mode, log in to the radio using the user name “adv_user” and a password of “passw0rd” (replace the “o” with a zero).
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual The Bandwidth Test is essentially a ping flood and may be performed with any device but is usually performed on the radio on the other end of the RF link. To run a test, do the following: • Enter the IP address of the device to exchange data with (usually the IP address of the other radio). • Choose the Protocol, udp or tcp. You will achieve higher data rates with udp packets because they are smaller. • Choose the direction: Transmit, Receive or Both. • Click “Start.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Technical specifications CHARACTERISTIC SPECIFICATION/DESCRIPTION RF Data Rate Up to 300 Mbps Output power AW58300HTA Access Point 1 Watt EIRP with 6 dBi omnidirectional antenna Output power AW58300HTS Subscriber Unit 4 Watts EIRP with 23 dBi directional antenna Receiver Sensitivity -115 dBm for HTS and HTP configurations, -101 dBm for the HTA Frequency Range 5.725 - 5.
AW58300HTA, HTS User’s Manual Limited Warranty This product is warranted to the original purchaser for normal use for a period of 360 days from the date of purchase. If a defect covered under this warranty occurs, AvaLAN will repair or replace the defective part, at its option, at no cost. This warranty does not cover defects resulting from misuse or modification of the product. If you wish, you may purchase extended warranty for this product.