User's Guide Part 3

Access / One
®
Network
Managing the Network 97
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◗ Advanced Settings
These advanced settings are preconfigured with the optimum settings for your
Access/One Network. Changing any of these settings may negatively affect
the network’s performance. For best results, leave these settings at their
default values.
• Beacon Interval
The beacon is a uniframe system packet broadcast by the AP to keep the
network synchronized. Enter a value in this field between 20 and 1000
(milliseconds) that specifies the beacon interval. The default value is 100.
• Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM Period)
Enter a value between 1 and 255 that specifies the Delivery Traffic
Indication Message (DTIM). Increasing this interval allows the station to
sleep for longer periods of time resulting in power savings (in exchange
for some degradation in performance). The default value is 1.
• Fragment Length
Enter a value between 256 and 2346. This setting determines the size of
the wireless frame. Wireless frames are reassembled by your Access/One
Network wireless modules before being forwarded to the Ethernet port,
but only if the frame is smaller than the Ethernet MTU (1536 bytes). The
default value is 2346.
• RTS/CTS Threshold
This is a value that determines at what frame length the RTS-CTS function
is triggered. By default, the threshold is set at its highest value. A lower
value means that the RTS-CTS function is triggered for smaller frame
lengths. A lower threshold value may be necessary in environments with
excessive signal noise or hidden nodes, but may result in some
performance degradation. Enter a value between 256 and 2346 to specify
the RTS/CTS threshold. The default value is 2346.
After inputting data (or making selections), click on the Update button to update this
page, then click on the Apply Configuration tab to propagate your changes across
the network. If necessary, you can click on the factory default (FD) button in the
toolbar to reset all data on this page to its factory default state.