TELSTRA ELITE™ GATEWAY USER GUIDE
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Option Description
DTIM Interval
DeliveryTrafficIndicationMessage(DTIM),alsoknownasBeaconRate.Theentry
rangeisavaluebetween1and65535.ADTIMisacountdowninformingclientsof
thenextwindowforlisteningtobroadcastandmulticastmessages.WhentheAP
hasbufferedbroadcastormulticastmessagesforassociatedclients,itsendsthe
nextDTIMwithaDTIMIntervalvalue.
APClientshearthebeaconsandawakentoreceivethebroadcastandmulticast
messages.Thedefaultis1.
Beacon Interval
Theamountoftimebetweenbeacontransmissions.Eachbeacontransmission
identifiesthepresenceofanaccesspoint.Bydefault,radioNICspassively
scanallRFchannelsandlistenforbeaconscomingfromaccesspointstofinda
suitableaccesspoint.
Beforeastationenterspowersavemode,thestationneedsthebeaconinterval
toknowwhentowakeuptoreceivethebeacon(andlearnwhetherthereare
bufferedframesattheaccesspoint).Theenteredvalueisrepresentedinms.
Defaultis100.Acceptableentryrangeis1to0xffff(65535)
Global Max
Clients
Thedevicecansupport4SSIDs,andeachSSIDcansetitsownmaxclients,butit
can’tbebiggerthantheGlobalmaxclientssetting.“GlobalMaxClients”limits
thetotalassociatedclientsofthe4SSIDscombined.
Xpress
TM
Technology
Xpress
TM
Technologyiscompliantwithdraftspecificationsoftwoplanned
wirelessindustrystandards.
Transmit Power
Therouterwillsetdifferentpoweroutputs(bypercentage)accordingtothis
selection.