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The retransmissions will also degrade the performance as perceived by
the end-user of a wireless stations: e.g. saving a file will take longer if
many retransmissions are required.

A poor link quality can be caused by one or more of the following problems:

The station is almost out of range of the Access Point RLM.

There is a source of interference in the signal path between the station
and the Radio Link Module.

A station may be “hidden” from another station within the same
coverage area (for more information on hidden stations, see the section

RTS/CTS Medium Reservation (page 131)

).

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The occurrence of a poor link quality on the wireless network can be
diagnosed in different ways.

You can use the RLM Manager tool to diagnose the quality of radio
communications on-site as described in

Monitoring your SIMATIC NET

IWL Network (page 67)

, or

Use the RLM Manager tool to investigate from your current location
whether a specific remote area is suffering from poor radio performance.

The RLM Manager provides the following options to diagnose radio link
quality:

The remote link test

The IEEE information

The Remote Statistics tab