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 Fragmentation threshold
Transmitted wireless packets larger than this size
will be fragmented to maintain performance in noisy
wireless networks.
 RTS threshold
Transmitted wireless packets larger than this size
will use the RTS/CTS protocol to (a) maintain
performance in noisy wireless networks and (b)
prevent hidden nodes from degrading performance.
 Beacon period
Access point beacons are sent out periodically.
This is the number of milliseconds between each
beacon.
 DTIM interval
This is the number of beacons per DTIM (Delivery
Traffic Indication Message), e.g. ‘1’ means send a
DTIM with each beacon, ‘2’ means with every 2nd
beacon, etc.
 Maximum burst time
This is also known as PRISM Nitro (tm)
technology. The technology uses fully standards-
compliant methods that eliminate collisions in mixed-
mode networks, while greatly increasing the
performance of both pure 802.11g and mixed 802.
11b/g networks. The setting is for the amount of
time the radio will be reserved to send data without
requiring an ACK. This number is in units of
microseconds. A typical value would be 650
microseconds. When this number is zero, bursting is