User's Manual

Fig. 43. Link health monitoring.

Run Wireless Network Manager on a computer and locate the AP you want to manage. Go to the

WDS tab, and then click Test. The test results (OK or Broken) will be shown in the Link Status col-

umn of the WDS links table.

If external high-gain directional antennas are used, it’s difficult to align the antennas when the dis-

tance between the bridges is long.

To adjust the alignments of a pair of bridges’ directional antennas:

7. Connect each bridge to a computer via Ethernet.

8. Configure the date rate of each bridge to the lowest value, 1Mbps.

9. Fix the alignment of the antenna on one side.

10. Adjust the alignment of the antenna on other side by using response time information obtained

from PINGing (run PING.exe) the “fixed-side” computer.

11. Fine-tune the alignment of the antenna until you get a best response time.

12. Increase the data rate of each bridge simultaneously until a maximal workable data rate is

reached. You may not be able to use the highest data rate, 11Mbps, because of the distance and

the gain of the antennas.

Fig. 44 illustrates the idea.