User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Your Feedback Please
- How to Contact Us
- ProSoft Technology® Product Documentation
- Important Safety Information
- Recommended Antennas
- Antenna spacing requirements for user safety
- 1 Start Here
- 2 RLX2 Quick Setup
- 3 Planning the Network
- 4 Installing the Radios
- 5 Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
- 6 Detailed Radio Configuration / Diagnostics
- 7 RadioLinx Industrial Hotspot Browser
- 8 Reference
- 8.1 Product Overview
- 8.2 Compatibility with ProSoft RLXIB Series Radios
- 8.3 Dimensional Drawings
- Master Channel-Frequency Table
- 8.4 FCC Emission Regulations
- 8.5 Radio hardware
- 8.6 RLX2-IHA Detailed Specifications
- 8.7 RLX2-IHG Detailed Specifications
- 8.8 RLX2-IHNF Detailed Specifications
- 8.9 RLX2-IHW Detailed Specifications
- 9 Antenna Configuration
- 10 Support, Service & Warranty
- Glossary of Terms
- 802.11
- 802.11a
- 802.11b
- 802.11g
- 802.11i
- 802.11n
- Access Point
- Ad hoc Mode
- AES
- Amplifier
- Antenna
- ASCII
- Association
- Authenticate
- Authentication Server
- Band
- Bandwidth
- Base Station
- Baud Rate
- bps
- CACT
- Channel
- Channel Move Time
- Client, Radio Mode
- Client, Software
- Configuration PC
- dBi
- dBm
- DCE
- Decibel (dB)
- Default Gateway
- Device-to-Device Network (Peer-to-Peer Network)
- DFS
- DHCP
- Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
- Directional Antenna
- Diversity Antenna
- DTE
- Dual Band
- EAP
- EIRP
- Encryption
- ESD
- ESSID
- Firmware
- Frequency Hopping
- Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
- Fresnel Zone
- Full-Duplex
- Gain
- Gateway
- Guard Interval (GI)
- Half-Duplex
- Hz
- IEEE
- IP Address
- Key
- LAN
- LED
- Line of Sight (LoS)
- Link point
- MAC ID
- Master device
- Mbps
- Megahertz
- MIC
- MIMO
- Modbus
- Modem
- Network
- Node
- Non-Occupancy Period
- Null Modem Cable
- Panel Antenna
- Parabolic Antenna
- Peer-to-Peer Network
- Point-Multipoint (Broadcast) Network
- Point-Multipoint (Modbus) Network
- Point-to-Multipoint
- Point-to-Point Network
- Poll
- Power Supply
- Protocol
- QoS
- Range
- Remote Access Point
- Remote device
- Repeater
- Repeater, Radio Mode
- RS-232
- RTU (Remote Terminal Unit)
- Sector Antenna
- Signal Diversity
- Signal Loss
- Signal Strength
- Simplex
- Site Survey
- Spectrum
- Spread Spectrum
- SSI
- Subnet Mask
- TKIP
- UART
- WAP
- WDS
- WEP
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
- Wi-Fi Interoperability Certificate
- Wi-Fi Protected Setup
- Wireless Gateway
- Wireless Network
- WLAN
- WPA
- WPA2
- Yagi Antenna
- Index
RLX2 Series ♦ 802.11a, b, g, n Detailed Radio Configuration / Diagnostics
Industrial Hotspots User Manual
6.2.5 Advanced Settings
It is important to allow many industrial protocols to communicate properly over
the RLX2 radios. The standard 802.11 AP operation for transmitting broadcast
messages is to accumulate them and transmit them only on specific time
intervals. This allows clients that are in power-save mode to wake up at the
synchronized time interval and receive the broadcast packets. However, the
power-save mode is rarely used in industrial networks.
Additionally, many industrial protocols utilize multicast traffic, which is sent as
broadcast messages over the wireless network. By enabling immediate
broadcasting, these multicast messages are not delayed by the wait for the next
time interval to occur before they can be transmitted. This results in improved
network performance.
The settings on this form also allow the configuration of the transmission rate and
broadcast mode to optimize this radio's use on an industrial network.
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