System Manual

EkoTek System Installation and Configuration Manual

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Click ‘Submit’ to save the slave hub settings.

Hub

IP address: Enter the IP address of the main system hub.

Port: Set the port to that set in the system settings for the main hub.

Click ‘Submit’ to save the main hub settings.

Radio settings

Network identifier

The network identifier enables mobile devices to differentiate between EkoTek

systems. Depending on its configuration the mobile device may ignore a

different system (if configured to lock to a single network identifier) or attempt to

log on to any system. The mobile device will get its configuration from the

system it is logged on to. For a mobile device to successfully move between

systems it must be able to detect the change, so each system it is to operate

on must have a different network identifier.

Note: Overlapping EkoTek networks are supported from release 3.0 onwards.

See Appendix 4A: Overlapping system support (page 82) for further details.

Delay optimisation

‘Inbound

’ is used for maximum speed of delivery in the direction towards the

hub and is normally only used when there are no pagers on the network, i.e. no

outbound user messaging. This is useful if external paging is intended as the

main method of alerting users.

‘Balanced

’ is used where there are EkoTek pagers on the system, to give a

balanced speed of message flow across the radio network, both towards and

from the hub.

‘Balanced’ is fine for most applications and is the default.

Frequency hopping

The 2.4GHz band has 16 channels. Frequency hopping allows the radio to

change frequency (hop) between different channels in the band. This helps the