Wireless/Redundant Edge Services xl Module Management and Configuration Guide WS.02.xx and greater

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Radio Port Configuration
Configuring Radio Settings
Creating a Radio Adoption Default Configuration
The Wireless Edge Services xl Module stores two radio adoption default
configurations, one for 802.11a radios and one for 802.11bg radios. It deploys
the configurations to radios on any unconfigured RP that it adopts. These
configurations only affect newly adopted radios. Therefore, configuration
changes do not take effect unless a new RP is adopted, and they only take
effect on that new RP; RP radios adopted before the changes continue using
the settings that they received either from the former radio adoption default
configuration or from a targeted configuration.
The radio adoption default configurations included in the factory default
settings for the Wireless Edge Services xl Module are shown in Table 3-2.
You should establish the settings best suited for most radios in your environ-
ment. Best practice is to alter these configurations before you install the RPs.
You can then alter a particular radio’s settings as necessary. (See “Creating a
Radio Configuration for a Particular Radio” on page 3-25.)
Table 3-2. Radio Adoption Default Configurations
Setting 802.11a 802.11bg
Placement Indoors Indoors
Channel Random Random
Power Depends on country code Depends on country code
Rate settings Basic: 6, 12, 24
Supported: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24,
36, 48, 54
Basic: 1, 2, 5.5, 11
Supported: 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11,
12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54
Antenna mode Diversity Diversity
Maximum stations 64 64
RTS threshold (bytes) 2346 2346
Beacon interval (microseconds) 100 100
Adoption preference ID 1 1
DTIM period (beacons) 2 2
Support short preamble — No
Self healing offset 0 0