LevelOne WAB-3003 - Advanced Wireless Settings

User’s Manual
WAB-3003 108M 11g Outdoor PoE CPE/ AP/ Bridge
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4.2.6 Advanced Wireless Settings
The advanced wireless settings for the system’s VAP profiles allow customization of data
transmission settings. The administrator can tune the following parameters to improve network
communication performance if a poor connection occurs.
 RTS Threshold: To control station access to the medium and to alleviate this effect of the
hidden terminal problem, the administrator can tune this RTS threshold value. A lower RTS
Threshold setting can be useful in areas where many client devices are associating with WAB-
3003 or in areas where the clients are far apart and can detect only WAB-3003 and not each
other.
 Fragmentation Threshold: A unicast frame larger than this threshold will be fragmented
before transmission. If a significant number of collisions are occurring, the administrator can try
to set a smaller value of the threshold to see whether it helps. A smaller value results in smaller
packets but allows a larger number of packets in transmission. A lower Fragment Threshold
setting can be useful in areas where communication is poor or disturbed by a serious amount of
radio interference.