D-Link DWL-3600AP - Viewing Details for a Cluster Member

ViewingWirelessNeighborhoodInformation
D-Link UnifiedAccessPointAdministrator’sGuide
November2011 Page160
UnifiedAccessPointAdministrator’sGuide
ViewingDetailsforaClusterMember
ToviewdetailsonaclustermemberAP,clickontheIPaddressofaclustermemberatthetopofthepage.The
followingfigureshowstheNeighborDetailsforRadio1oftheAPwithanIPaddressof10.27.65.66.
Figure50:DetailsforaClusterMemberAP
Thefollowing
tableexplainsthedetailsshownabouttheselectedAP.
Table65:ClusterMemberDetails
Field Description
SSID TheServiceSetIdentifier(SSID)fortheaccesspoint.
TheSSIDisanalphanumericstringofupto32charactersthatuniquelyidentifiesa
wirelesslocalareanetwork.ItisalsoreferredtoastheNetworkName.
AGuestnetworkandanInternalnetworkrunningonthesameaccesspoint
mustalways 
havetwodifferentnetworknames.
MACAddress ShowstheMACaddressoftheneighboringaccesspoint.
AMACaddressisahardwareaddressthatuniquelyidentifieseachnodeofanetwork.
Channel Showsthechannelonwhichtheaccesspointiscurrentlybroadcasting.
TheChanneldefinestheportionoftheradio
spectrumthattheradiousesfor
transmittingandre ceiving.
Rate Showstherate(inmegabitspersecond)atwhichthisaccesspointiscurrently
transmitting.
ThecurrentratewillalwaysbeoneoftheratesshowninSupportedRates.
Signal Indicatesthestrengthoftheradiosignalemittingfromthisaccesspointas
measuredin
decibels(Db).
BeaconInterval ShowstheBeaconintervalbeingusedbythisaccesspoint.
Beaconframesaretransmittedbyanaccesspointatregularintervalstoannouncethe
existenceofthewirelessnetwork.Thedefaultbeha vioristosendabeaconframeonce
every100milliseconds(or10persecond).
BeaconAge Showsthedateandtimeofthelastbeaconreceivedfromthisaccesspoint.