User guide

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BreezeNET DS.11b User’s Guide
Manual Version 1.0
! an interference source is located in the signal path between the “trouble”
stations and the Base Station.
To enable Interference Robustness click the
Advanced button on the Wireless
Interfaces
tab in the edit mode to display the Advanced Setup window, then
select the option
Interference Robustness.
Distance Between APs
In networking environments where you have either data intensive users, or a
large number of users in a small area, you may wish to consider increasing the
number of Base Stations (making the distance between Base Stations smaller),
and then adjusting the Distance Between APs parameter to optimize the load
balance of the number of wireless stations per Base Station.
To change the Distance Between APs parameter display the
Wireless Interfaces
tab in the edit mode and click the
Advanced button. In the field Distance Between
APs
choose one of the three density options:
! Large - (default)
! Medium
! Small
The default setting
Large provides a maximum wireless coverage with a
minimum number of Base Stations. This option which is typically used for single-
cell networks, but will also provide an efficient and cost effective solution for
most networks that include multiple wireless cells.
The setting for distance between Base Stations must be the same for all BreezeNET
equipped devices in your wireless network. A mismatch in the configuration setting for
this parameter may have unpredictable performance results for wireless (mobile) stations
in your network.
Medium
distance between Base Stations can be selected for environments
where stations experience slow network response times even though the
quality of radio communications is rated as excellent. The slow response times
might be experienced in areas where:
! A high number of wireless stations is located close to one another, causing
other stations to defer data transmissions.
! A number of wireless stations engaged in heavy network traffic is causing
other stations to defer data transmissions.
! The setting
Large creates overlapping radio cells, which may cause stations
in one cell to defer data transmission for stations located in the neighboring
cell.
You should only select
Small distance between Base Stations when you are
designing a wireless infrastructure that will include a high concentration of Base
Stations: i.e. the total cost of hardware investments is less critical than the
maximum data throughput per cell.