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
■ Adoption Preference ID
■ Short Preambles only (802.11 bg radios only)
■ RTS Threshold
■ Beacon Interval
■ DTIM Period
■ Self Healing Offset
See “Setting Advanced Radio Properties” on page 3-17 for more information
on each setting. Setting the DTIM Period is slightly different for the targeted
radio configuration; see “Setting DTIM Periods for a Particular Radio” on
page 3-33.
You can alter any of these settings for a particular radio. On the Network Setup
>
Radio > Configuration screen, select the radio and click the Edit button. On the
Configuration screen that is displayed, locate the Advanced Properties section.
Situations in which you might alter these settings on a radio include, but are
not limited to:
■ This radio uses two non-matching antennas—In the Antenna Mode field,
use the drop-down menu to select the antenna that the radio should use.
■ You want a different module to adopt this RP—Change the value in the
Adoption Preference ID field to match the module preference ID for the
module that should adopt this RP.
■ The RF network supported by this radio experiences many collisions,
perhaps caused by “hidden” stations—Lower the value in the RTS Thresh-
old field.
■ This radio supports multicast video streaming traffic and users have
reported jittery video—Have the radio send DTIMs more frequently by
lowering the values for the DTIM Period. You could also lower the value in
the Beacon Interval field.
■ This radio is configured to raise its transmit power in response to a failed
neighbor—Configure the Self Healing Offset field so that the radio does not
raise its power too high.
Setting DTIM Periods for a Particular Radio. For radio adoption
defaults, you specify a single value for the DTIM period (the number of
beacons between DTIMs). (See “Setting the DTIM Period” on page 3-23.)