FORCE180/200 BRIDGE STAGE 1 - DEVICE PREPARATION

1. Set up your PC network card to be able to contact ePMP devices: IP address 192.168.0.10, MASK 255.255.255.0

2. Login to the Force180/200 device by typing its default IP address into your browser:

http://192.168.0.2 user admin, password admin

3. Visit https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/files/epmp/ (registration required) for latest Force180/200 software: ePMP-NonGPS_Synced-

vX.Y.tar.gz where X and Y are software version numbers i.e.: ePMP-NonGPS_Synced-v3.2.tar.gz.

4. Upgrade downloaded software to Force180/200 device through Tools, Firmware Upgrade section: select the file and press Upgrade button.

5. Reboot the unit by pressing highlighted reboot button and wait for unit to come back with login screen.

6. Repeat 4/5 for both units of the planned bridge.

FORCE180/200 BRIDGE STAGE 2 - DEVICE CONFIGURATION

The bridge requires one Force180/200 unit to be configured as Access Point (Master) and second as Subscriber Module (Slave) – which is default out of the box

configuration and no additional configuration is required to establish the bridge. So the entire configuration will be made on Master unit side.

1. Select the unit that will act as a Master on the link and login into it from the browser: http://192.168.0.2 user admin, password admin

2. In Configuration, Radio general section select mode of operation to Access Point and driver mode to TDD PTP. Then click Save button (button with

diskette) and after configuration is applied click Reboot button.

3. After reboot (approx. 2 minutes) unit will come up as Access Point (our Master) with default IP address 192.168.0.1. Please login to

http://192.168.0.1 user admin password admin and in Configuration Radio section setup the following parameters:

a. Range unit = km

b. Max range (cannot be less than the real range of the link)

c. SSID (will be visible for slave unit)

d. Scan channel bandwidth: 20MHz for up to 100Mbps operation, 40MHz for up to 200Mbps operation. Reboot might be required when

scan channel bandwidth is changed.

e. Transmitter output power +14dBm (the unit will only transmit allowed amount = max 30dBm EIRP)

f. Subscriber Module Target receive level = -40dBm

g. Downlink/Uplink ratio = Flexible

Please save the settings by clinking on Save button.

FORCE180/200 BRIDGE 4. Setting up link country license:

a. Copy Ethernet MAC address of the unit from the Home page.

b. Visit https://support.cambiumnetworks.com/licensekeys/epmp (registration required) to generate your country licence for the Access

Point (Master) unit. Enter Ethernet MAC address, choose your country of operation and click request a key button.

c. Copy generated license code.

FORCE180/200 BRIDGE d. Paste it into License Key field under Tools, License Management section and click Save button followed by Reboot button.

Your link is now ready to operate. For the very short distances (below 2km) you can relax Transmitter output power (downlink RSSI) and Subscriber

Module Target Receive Level (uplink RSSI) settings so the RSSI level is around -50dBm on each side of the link – this can be monitored in Monitor Wireless

section, RSSI downlink/uplink

You can still customise the IP, SNMP and security settings your way but you should be given basic connectivity at this point.

You can test your link at Tools, Wireless Link Test section for 10 or 20 seconds. This is UDP peak throughput test.