User's Manual

Chapter 3: Connections and setup
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Illustrationscontainedinthisdocumentareforrepresentationonly.
MulticastSet:
Forusers,inordertoconnecttotheAP,setthebaselineleveltodeliver.Lowermulticastrates
meanweaker,farthersignalsareallowedtoconnection.Highermulticastratesmeanthatonly
close,strongsignalsareallowed.
NPHYRate:
SetPhysicalLayerrate,onlyapplicablewhenthe802.11nmodesetasauto.
LegacyRate:
WhenAPreleasedtosharethebandwithexistinglegacydevice,802.11g/b/adevices.It
providedwaysofensuringcoexistencebetweenlegacyandsuccessordevices.
BeaconInterval:
Thisisthetimeintervalbetweenbeacontransmissions.Themeasureunitis"timeunits"(TU)of
1024microseconds.(Valuerange:1~65535)
DTIM(DeliveryTrafficIndicationMessage)Interval:
Thevaluesetherewhichinformstheclientsaboutthepresenceofbufferedmulticast/broadcast
dataontheAP.ItdefineCMwillbedeliveredandhowoftenthatdeliveryoccurs.(Valuerange:
1~255)
FragmentationThreshold:
ThisoptiondivisionoftheMTU(Maximumtransmissionunit),defaultis2346.
RTS(RequesttoSend)Threshold:
SendingRTSframesdoesnotoccurunlessthepacketsizeexceedsthisthreshold,defaultis2347.