User's Manual

InfiNet Wireless R5000 Technical User Manual

Muffer

The muffer module makes it possible to rapidly test the electromagnetic

environment, visually estimate the efficiency of the utilization of the air links,

reveal sources of interference, and estimate their power.

Several operating regimes of the muffer module provide for different levels of

details in test results

Review mode

This regime is enabled by the review option. It makes possible to have a general

estimation of emissions and interference within specified frequency range.

Normal operation of the radio is not possible in this mode.

This regime can be useful on the first steps of link configuration. One can

observe the activity on the selected list of frequencies and make decisions of

what frequencies can be used for the link so that the link did not interfere with

other sources of signals.

The scan is performed only for the packets corresponding with the

standard of the radio module (802.11a for 5GHz devices and 802.11b

for 2.4 GHz devices. Other sources of signals on the scanned

frequencies stay unseen.

The picture above shows the output of review mode.

To run the review mode please type the following command:

muffer <IF-NAME> review