Allied Telesis AT-WL2411 - Manual (Page 111)

AT-WL2411 Installation and User’s Guide
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Medium Reservation
Determines if you want to specify a reservation threshold. Choose
Enabled to set a threshold value. If you choose Disabled, you may
improve network response time in installations that primarily
send very small frames or that have no hidden stations.
Reservation Threshold
If you enable medium reservation, you need to set a threshold
value, which is the largest data packet that can be transmitted
without reserving air time. Air time is normally reserved to help
prevent collisions with other transmitters.
Distance Between APs
Controls the roaming sensitivity of your wireless end devices. This
setting should match the setting on your end devices. You can use
this parameter to virtually reduce the range of your access point.
If you choose Small or Medium, you do not reduce the absolute
range of your radio, but you modify the collision detection
mechanism to allow significant overlap of the wireless cells. Thus,
you create a higher performance radio network, but you need
more access points to cover an area.
Microwave Oven Robustness
Determines if the access point activates a modified algorithm for
automatic rate fallback, which prevents the access point from
falling back to 1 Mbps when trying to retransmit radio packets
when 2.4 GHz interference is present.
Network Name Security
Determines if wireless end devices that have their SSID (Network
Name) set to ANY or NULL can associate with this access point.
Choose 802.11 Compliant to allow end devices with an SSID of
ANY or NULL to associate with this access point. This setting is
802.11b compliant.
Choose Network Name ‘ANY’ Not Allowed if you want to prevent
end devices with an SSID of ANY or NULL from associating with
this access point.
DTIM Period
Specifies the number of beacon frames to skip before including a
DTIM (delivery traffic indication message) in a beacon frame.
Setting a higher DTIM period may conserve battery life in a
wireless end device, but it may increase response time. You can
set the DTIM period to a value from 1 to 65535.