User's Manual

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The first line shows the percent of successful transmissions. As long as you are
getting at least 90%, you will have excellent results in the location tested.
If you don’t get the minimum results shown above:
1. Try hanging the Base Station upside down or tilted toward the
area of usage – this alone can double the effective range.
2. If using a European terminal, try a different channel. You may
find less interference on another channel. There are several to
choose from, only try 1 or 2 others. This does not apply to the
US Terminal, because all channels use the same 25
frequencies, just in a different hopping order.
3. Try locating the Base Station closer to the area of difficulty.
Remember that moving the Base Station will require you to
recheck the other locations already tested.
Is radio traffic contention likely?
The radio traffic time is about 10ms per transaction. Radio time is not going
to be a gating factor, even with more terminals than the allowed 64 maximum.
The bottleneck could partially be the serial port baud rate in high volume
applications. The default baud rate is 9600 baud; you can increase this up to
115,200 baud, but the greater the baud rate, the less the RS-232 cable
distance allowable.
The gating factor for the application is almost always going to be the
application program. By splitting the application between two or more
work stations, each talking to a separate set of Terminals/Base Station, that
factor can be minimized.