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

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Wireless Network Management
Monitoring the Wireless Network
The next columns display traffic statistics for the connection:
■ Throughput Mbps—the actual throughput for data in Mbps
■ Bit Speed (Avg.) Mbps—the average bit speed in Mbps when the station
actually transmits
■ % Nonunicast—the percentage of multicast and broadcast packets
■ Retries—the number of times a station must retransmit a packet, whether
due to a collusion or another error
Select Last 30s or Last Hr to view either the average statistics over the last 30
seconds or over the last hour.
A high number of retries can indicate interference or excessive congestion.
Wireless phones, which send traffic to a multicast address, may have a high
percentage of nonunicast traffic. For traditional stations, a high percentage of
nonunicast traffic can be normal for brief periods—for example, when the
station first associates and requests a DHCP address. You may be able to
decrease the number of frames that stations broadcast by enabling proxy ARP.
(See Chapter 3: Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs).)
For more detailed information about the connection to a particular station,
select that station and click Details. A screen such as that in Figure 6-4 displays.