Owner's Manual

NOTE: The default value for this property is set for maximum performance. Therefore, it is not recommended for home
users to change the value. Only network administrators or technicians with wireless network experience should attempt
to make any changes.
This property enables you to specify the rate (in Mbps) at which data is transmitted for IEEE 802.11b/g operation. The
possible values are: 1, 2, 5.5, 6, 9, 11, 18, 24, 36 48, and 54. The default value is Best Rate.
Roam Tendency
This property adjusts the roaming thresholds for the DW WLAN Card.
Moderate (default). Roams to APs having a signal strength at least 20 dB greater than the current wireless router/AP.
Aggressive. Roams to APs having a signal strength at least 10 dB greater than the current wireless router/AP.
Conservative. Roams to APs having a signal strength at least 30 dB greater than the current wireless router/AP.
Roaming Decision
The signal strength value that determines when the DW WLAN Card starts scanning for other wireless routers/APs.
Default (default). –75 dB
Optimize Bandwidth. –65 dB
Optimize Distance. –85 dB
RTS Threshold
If the number of frames in the data packet is at or above the RTS Threshold, a request to send/clear to send handshake is
turned on before the data packet is sent. The default value is 2347. The range is 0 to 2347.
SSID Autopromote
If you used Wireless Network Wizard or the Wireless Network Connection Settings tool to connect to wireless networks, each
network that you have connected to is listed under Preferred network connections on the Wireless Networks tab of DW
WLAN Card Utility. Each time you start your computer, the computer automatically attempts to connect to the network at the
top of the list. If that network is within range, the connection is made. If it is not within range, your computer attempts to
connect to the next network on the list, and continues the process until it finds a network that is within range. You can move
any preferred network up or down the list.
If the SSID Autopromote property is disabled, you can manually override the automatic network connection process and
connect to the network of your choice, regardless of its position on the list (see
Utility Wireless Networks Tab). If the SSID
Autopromote property is enabled, you cannot manually override the automatic connection process.
Disabled (default)
Enabled
VLAN Priority Support
The VLAN Priority Support property controls the introduction of VLAN-tagged packets to send priority information when your
network connection is associated to non-QoS infrastructure devices. When this property is set to Auto or Enabled, the NDIS
driver always advertises QoS regardless of whether the WMM property is enabled or disabled.
On transmit, when this property is set to Enabled, and the Afterburner property is disabled, and the packet does not already
contain a VLAN tag, and the priority is nonzero, and the association is non-WMM, a priority tag is added to the 802.11 packet.
On reception, when this property is set to Enabled, and the Afterburner property is disabled, and the packet has a VLAN tag,
and the VLAN ID is zero, the VLAN tag is stripped, and the priority from the tag is assigned to the packet. This stripping is
done whether or not the association is WMM because WMM appendix A.6 indicates that WMM STAs must be able to accept