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prioritizes wireless data packets based on four access categories: voice, video, best effort, and
background. Applications without WMM and applications that do not require QoS are assigned to the
best-effort category, which receives a lower priority than that of voice and video. Therefore, WMM
decides which data streams are more important and assigns them a higher traffic priority. This option
works with WMM-capable clients only.
<To receive the benefits of WMM QoS>
The application must support WMM.
WMM shall be enabled on the Access Point.
WMM shall be enabled in the wireless adapter on client’s computer.
IAPP:
IAPP (Inter Access Point Protocol) is a protocol by which access points share information about the
stations connected to them. When this function is enabled, the system will automatically broadcast
information of associated wireless stations to its peer access points. This will help wireless stations roam
smoothly among IAPP-enabled access points in the same wireless LAN.
Multicast-to-Unicast Conversion:
When Multicast-to-Unicast Conversion is enabled, the Access Point
intelligently forwards traffic only to those ports that request multicast traffic. Adversely, when disabled,
multicast traffic is treated like broadcast traffic, with packets forwarded to all ports causing network
inefficiencies.
Multicast/Broadcast Rate:
Bandwidth configuration for multicast/broadcast packets. If your wireless clients
require a larger or smaller bandwidth for sending multicast/ broadcast packets, the administrator can
customize the Access Point’s multicast/ broadcast bandwidth here.
Management Frame Rate:
This feature controls the bandwidth for Management Frames. The higher
the rate it, the shorter range the transmission covers
Receiving RSSI Threshold:
To ensure connected stations have quality connection speeds, a station will not
be able to associate to the network unless its receiving sensitivity meets the configured threshold.
8.5 WDS Management
This list is to show the information of each WDS link configured in the managed AP, including Peer AP,
Band, Channel, Security, TX Power, Link Speed, SNR, TX Bytes, TX Packets, STP and Status.
The WDS link if established between APs listed on
List
will be listed here with related information such as
the Band and Channel of the link, Security settings if any and the Transmit Power, Byte, Packets etc.
8.6 AP Firmware management
Backup Configuration
Backed up Config files can be used to restore an AP’s settings in
List
. When administrator backs up an AP’s
configuration settings, all the backup files are listed on the
Backup Config
tab page and can be
downloaded to a local storage device or deleted from WLAN controller’s memory.