4600c Auto sync station frequency

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I’m new to cambium. I recently just purchased 4600c.

I’ve been using ubnt and mimosa radio for ptp and configuration are very simple and auto config such as auto frequency and auto everything is great and handy!

Is there a feature same with Cambium especially when changing frequency on master, it will automatically sync on station?

Thank you

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The station will scan to find the AP once the frequency is changed as long as the station is set to scan the appropriate frequencies and channel widths.

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Yeah, but it really take some time

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never having touched the 4600, im probably speaking out of pocket. but with the rest of the epmp line, if i want a faster switch, i would only enable the active channel in the station for scanning, if i was going to make a change i would add the new channel in the station, apply it, then change the AP side

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Hi Carl,
So, there are two things to mention:

  1. The SM does auto search - so if you change the channel on the AP, the SM will scan all the channels and widths that it’s set to scan, and it will ‘find’ the AP. This means the SM should not be ‘stranded’ on the old channel, and you don’t need to manually change both the SM & AP to match. As other’s have mentioned, there’s a way in the SM to tell it which channels and widths to scan and which to ignore - so if it’s set to wide open (all possible widths, all possible channels) then scanning thru them all can take a while, but it’s also possible to limit that search to just 40 Mhz wide channels (for example) or to just to scan channels from 5735-5835 and that’ll make much less work/time for the SM to scan and find the AP.

  2. The 4000 series is relatively new, so there are some features which also exist as mature existing features in the 3000 and previous generations, which don’t all yet exist in the 4000 series quite yet. For example, in the 3000AP with F300 SM’s in TDD PtMP mode, in addition to the above ‘auto scan’ type feature, there is also a ‘sync’ type feature, so that if you change the AP channel, it’ll tell the SM’s to go directly to the new channel, and normally, the AP & SM’s don’t even drop the link while changing channels. In 3000/300 series links (TDD PtMP or TDD PtP) that’s a huge benefit while testing different channels for performance.

But, in either case, you don’t have to manually change the AP and SM to match… you just have to have the SM set to scan the appropriate channels and it’ll find & re-associate automatically.

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I see. got it now

Thanks

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