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Configure Advanced Wireless Parameters Proper wireless parameters can improve the network's stability, reliability and communication efficiency. The advanced wireless parameters consist of Beacon Interval, DTIM Period, RTS Threshold, Fragmentation Threshold and Airtime Fairness. To configure the advanced wireless parameters, follow the steps below. 1. Go to Wireless Settings > Advanced Wireless Setting. 2. Select the band frequency . 3. Configure the following parameters. Beacon Interval Beacons are transmitted periodically by the EAP device to announce the presence of a wireless network for the clients. Beacon Interval value determines the time interval of the beacons sent by the device. You can specify a value between 40 and 100ms. The default is 100ms. DTIM Period The DTIM (Delivery Traffic Indication Message) is contained in some Beacon frames. It indicates whether the EAP device has buffered data for client devices. The DTIM Period indicates how often the clients served by this EAP device should check for buffered data still on the EAP device awaiting pickup. You can specify the value between 1-255 Beacon Intervals. The default value is 1, indicating clients check for buffered data on the EAP device at every beacon. An excessive DTIM interval may reduce the performance of multicast applications, so we recommend you keep it by default. RTS Threshold RTS (Request to Send) can ensure efficient data transmission. When RTS is activated, the client will send a RTS packet to EAP to inform that it will send data before it send packets. After receiving the RTS packet, the EAP notices other clients in the same wireless network to delay their transmitting of data and informs the requesting client to send data, thus avoiding the conflict of packet. If the size of packet is larger than the RTS Threshold, the RTS mechanism will be activated. If you specify a low threshold value, RTS packets are sent more frequently and heip the network recover from interference or collisions that might occur on a busy network. However, it also consumes more bandwidth and reduces the throughput of the packet. We recommend you keep it by default. The recommended and default value is 2347. 30

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Configure Advanced Wireless Parameters
Proper wireless parameters can improve the network's stability, reliability and communication
efficiency. The advanced wireless parameters consist of
Beacon Interval
,
DTIM Period
,
RTS
Threshold
,
Fragmentation Threshold
and
Airtime Fairness
.
To configure the advanced wireless parameters, follow the steps below.
1.
Go to
Wireless Settings > Advanced Wireless Setting
.
2.
Select the band frequency
.
3.
Configure the following parameters.
Beacon Interval
Beacons are transmitted periodically by the EAP device to announce
the presence of a wireless network for the clients.
Beacon Interval
value
determines the time interval of the beacons sent by the device.
You can specify a value between 40 and 100ms. The default is 100ms.
DTIM Period
The DTIM (Delivery Traffic Indication Message) is contained in some Beacon
frames. It indicates whether the EAP device has buffered data for client
devices. The
DTIM Period
indicates how often the clients served by this EAP
device should check for buffered data still on the EAP device awaiting pickup.
You can specify the value between 1-255 Beacon Intervals. The default value
is 1, indicating clients check for buffered data on the EAP device at every
beacon. An excessive DTIM interval may reduce the performance of multicast
applications, so we recommend you keep it by default.
RTS Threshold
RTS (Request to Send) can ensure efficient data transmission. When RTS is
activated, the client will send a RTS packet to EAP to inform that it will send
data before it send packets. After receiving the RTS packet, the EAP notices
other clients in the same wireless network to delay their transmitting of data
and informs the requesting client to send data, thus avoiding the conflict
of packet. If the size of packet is larger than the
RTS Threshold
, the RTS
mechanism will be activated.
If you specify a low threshold value, RTS packets are sent more frequently
and heip the network recover from interference or collisions that might occur
on a busy network. However, it also consumes more bandwidth and reduces
the throughput of the packet. We recommend you keep it by default. The
recommended and default value is 2347.