Configuring Your Comfast Onmi with a Wireless BridgeUpdated 3 months ago
In this guide we will take you through how to configure your Comfast Onmi with a Wireless Bridge.
Before You Begin
First, remove all components from the packaging and lay them out in front of you.
Wire Up the Bridge
Take the first panel and run an Ethernet lead from the WAN port to the PoE port on the power supply, then take a cable from the LAN port directly to your computer.
Now take the second panel and run a cable from the WAN port to the PoE port on the power supply.
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Make sure on both panels that you have the slider switch in the “on” position. If you are looking at the ports face on, with LAN to the left and WAN to the right, slide the switch to the left where it says 'ON'(this may be upside down and appear to say 'NO'). Once done you can follow the remaining steps.
You may need to configure your ethernet adapter to be able to login into the bridges as the default IP on comfast bridges is 192.168.10.1.
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Configuring Your Comfast Onmi
Type in the IP address of your Comfast Omni into your web browser’s address bar then login using the password.
Once logged in, select Wizard from the menu on the left.
Then Select AP Mode.
Your page should now look like this:
If your internet provider is BT or TalkTalk set the IP address as 192.168.1.200.
For Virgin Media or Sky, set the IP address as 192.168.0.200.
Then click Next.
As the Comfast Omni is both 2.4 and 5ghz you will need to set both parts up
You can change the SSID to whatever you would like the wireless to be called and please make sure to set a secure password for the wifi.
For the 2.4Ghz make sure the bandwidth is on 20MHz and Country is set to Europe, i would leave the channel on Auto unless you are aware of any specific channel that works better in your locatio and then click next.
This will then take you to the 5GHz setup page which will look the same, on this page you can once again setup the SSID/Password and make sure the Bandwidth is on 80MHz with the Country set to Europe.
Once you click next the unit will update itself and reboot taking into account the new IP address that you have given it, the next step is to connect any comfast wifi bridges that you have to it, to do this please follow on below.
Configuring Comfast Bridge
Connect the cable going from your laptop to your wifi bridge.
Now you need to configure your Comfast bridge panel.
Open your web browser and type 192.168.10.1 into the address bar.
Input admin as the password.
Now select Wizard from the left-hand side of the page and then click on Bridge > Station > Client Site.
We need to ensure that the bridge is not on the same IP address as the Omni because otherwise it will cause a conflict. So if on BT and we have set the Omni to 192.168.1.200 we could set the bridge IP address to 192.168.1.201.
Click Next, and then click on Scan and a list of networks will show like the page below. You will need to find the Onmi’s network from the list it with a name like: COMFAST_B4564_5G
If the SSID of the Omni doesn't appear in the list, go to Network > Wireless and change the country to 'Europe':
Input the password that you used on the Onmi earlier.
Then select the Operate button, this is linking both devices together.
Click Finish and wait for the percentage bar to hit 100%, showing you have completed the setup process.
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