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Beacon Interval Specify the beacon interval for the device. Beacons are transmitted
periodically by the 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. Specify a value from 40 to 1,000. The default
value is 100.
RTS Threshold Specify the RTS threshold for the device.
RTS/CTS (Request to Send/Clear to Send) is used to improve the data
transmission efficiency of the network with hidden nodes, especially when
there are lots of large packets to be transmitted.
When the size of a data packet is larger than the RTS Threshold, the RTS/
CTS mechanism will be activated. With this mechanism activated, before
sending a data packet, the client will send an RTS packet to the device to
request data transmitting. And then the device will send CTS packet to
inform other clients to delay their data transmitting. In this way, packet
collisions can be avoided.
For a busy network with hidden nodes, a low threshold value will help
reduce interference and packet collisions. But for a not-so-busy network, a
too low threshold value will cause bandwidth wasting and reduce the data
throughput. The recommended and default value is 2346 bytes.
Fragmentation
Threshold
Specify the fragmentation threshold for packets.
The fragmentation function can limit the size of packets transmitted over
the network. If the size of a packet exceeds the Fragmentation Threshold,
the fragmentation function is activated and the packet will be fragmented
into several packets.
Fragmentation helps improve network performance if properly configured.
However, a too low fragmentation threshold may result in poor wireless
performance caused by the extra work of dividing up and reassembling of
frames and increased message traffic. The recommended and default value
is 2346 bytes.
DTIM Interval Specify the DTIM (Delivery Traffic Indication Message) Interval for the
device.
The DTIM is contained in some Beacon frames. It indicates whether the
device has buffered data for client devices. The '7,03HULRG indicates how
often the clients served by this device should check for buffered data still
on the device awaiting pickup.
Specify the value between 1-255 Beacon Intervals. The default value
is 1, indicating that clients check for buffered data at every beacon.
An excessive DTIM interval may reduce the performance of multicast
applications, so we recommend you keep the default value.