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Enabling short slot time for 802.11g radios – Rockwell Automation 1783-WAPxxx Stratix 5100 Wireless Access Point User Manual User Manual

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Rockwell Automation Publication 1783-UM006A-EN-P - May 2014

Chapter 7

Configuring Radio Settings

The 2.4 GHz radio and the 2.4 GHz 802.11n radio is 0.
The 5 GHz radio and the 5 GHz 802.11n radio is 1.

interface dot11radio {0 | 1}

3. Set the fragmentation threshold.

Enter a setting from 256…2346 bytes for the 2.4 GHz radio.
Enter a setting from 256…2346 bytes for the 5 GHz radio.

fragment-threshold value

4. Return to privileged EXEC mode.

end

5. (Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.

copy running-config startup-config

Use the

no

form of the command to reset the setting to defaults.

Enabling Short Slot Time for
802.11g Radios

You can increase throughput on the 802.11g, 2.4 GHz radio by enabling short
slot time. Reducing the slot time from the standard 20 microseconds to the 9-
microsecond short slot time decreases the overall backoff, that increases
throughput. Backoff, that is a multiple of the slot time, is the random length of
time that a station waits before sending a packet on the LAN.

Many 802.11g radios support short slot time, but some don’t. When you enable
short slot time, the wireless access point uses only the short slot time when all
clients associated to the 802.11g, 2.4 GHz radio support short slot time.

Short slot time is supported only on the 802.11g, 2.4 GHz radio. Short slot time
is disabled by default.

In radio interface mode, enter this command to enable short slot time:

ap(config-if)# short-slot-time

Enter

no short-slot-time

to disable short slot time.