Wireless/Redundant Edge Services xl Module Management and Configuration Guide WS.01.03 or greater

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Radio Port Configuration
Configuring Radio Settings
Figure 5-7. Rate Settings Screen
In this screen, you can set basic and supported rates. The data rates displayed
depend on the type of radio that you are configuring.
The basic rates are rates for which RP radios advertise support. A radio uses
and allows stations to use basic rates for:
■ management frames
■ broadcast frames
■ multicast frames
Such frames are sent to all stations associated to a basic service set (BSS);
therefore, if an RP is to support 802.11b stations, it must allow only the rates
(1, 2, 5.5, and 11 Mbps) supported by those slower stations.
If you know that your environment does not include 802.11b stations, then
you can configure the radio to support only 802.11g data rates. The higher data
rates for management and broadcast traffic can improve performance in the
wireless network.