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AP Isolation | Select On or Off. By enabling this feature, wireless clients associated with the Access |
| Point can be linked. |
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Band | The new amendment allows IEEE 802.11g units to fall back to speeds of 11 Mbps, so IEEE |
| 802.11b and IEEE 802.11g devices can coexist in the same network. The two standards |
| apply to the 2.4 GHz frequency band. IEEE 802.11g creates |
| with the IEEE 802.11a standard, which has a 54 Mbps rate at 5 GHz. (IEEE 802.11a has |
| other differences compared to IEEE 802.11b or g, such as offering more channels.) |
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Channel | Allows selection of a specific channel |
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Auto Channel Timer | The Auto Channel times the length it takes to scan in minutes. |
(min) |
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54g Rate | In Auto (default) mode, your Router uses the maximum data rate and lowers the data |
| rate dependent on the signal strength. The appropriate setting is dependent on signal |
| strength. Other rates are discrete values between 1 to 54 Mbps. |
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Multicast Rate | Setting for multicast packet transmission rate. |
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Basic Rate | Sets basic transmission rate. |
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Fragmentation | A threshold (in bytes) determines whether packets will be fragmented and at what size. |
Threshold | Packets that exceed the fragmentation threshold of an 802.11 WLAN will be split into |
| smaller units suitable for the circuit size. Packets smaller than the specified fragmentation |
| threshold value however are not fragmented. |
| Values between 256 and 2346 can be entered but should remain at a default setting of |
| 2346. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in poor performance. |
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RTS Threshold | Request To Send (RTS) specifies the packet size that exceeds the specified RTS threshold, |
| which then triggers the RTS/CTS mechanism. Smaller packets are sent without using |
| RTS/CTS. The default setting of 2347 (max length) will disables the RTS Threshold. |
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DTIM Interval | Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM) is also known as Beacon Rate. The entry |
| range is a value between 1 and 65535. A DTIM is a countdown variable that informs |
| clients of the next window for listening to broadcast and multicast messages. When the |
| AP has buffered broadcast or multicast messages for associated clients, it sends the next |
| DTIM with a DTIM Interval value. AP Clients hear the beacons and awaken to receive the |
| broadcast and multicast messages. The default is 1. |
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Beacon Interval | The amount of time between beacon transmissions in is milliseconds. The default is |
| 100 ms and the acceptable range is 1 – 65535. The beacon transmissions identify the |
| presence of an access point. By default, network devices passively scan all RF channels |
| listening for beacons coming from access points. Before a station enters power save |
| mode, the station needs the beacon interval to know when to wake up to receive the |
| beacon. |
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Xpress™ | Broadcom’s Xpress™ Technology is compliant with draft specifications of two planned |
Technology | wireless industry standards. It has been designed to improve wireless network efficiency. |
| Default is disabled. |
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