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
The RTS threshold, Beacon interval, DTIM Period, and Self Healing Offset fields
are accompanied by a column that describes the units in which these settings
are configured. For example, the RTS threshold is configured in bytes, and the
beacon interval in units of 1000 microseconds.
Figure 5-9. Advanced Properties
Setting the Antenna Mode. A diversity antenna consists of two closely
spaced matching antennas designed to minimize small gaps in coverage: the
RP automatically selects the antenna that provides the strongest signal to a
particular station. The ProCurve RPs 210 and 230 always use their internal
omni-directional diversity antennas, and the default setting for the antenna
mode is Diversity.
You may need to change the antenna mode for RP 220s, which use external
antennas. ProCurve Networking offers a variety of 2.4 and 5 GHz external
antennas for both indoor and outdoor use. Depending on its design, each
antenna offers a different pattern of coverage; some of the antennas are
Antenna Mode
Max Stations
Short Preamble
Adoption Pref ID
Options
Units