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Chapter6 Configuring Radio Settings
Configuring Radio Data Rates
to be made based on resources available to the wireless project, type of traffic the users will be passing,
service level desired, and as always, the quality of the RF environment.When you enter throughput for
the data rate setting, the wireless device sets all four data rates to basic.
Note When a wireless network has a mixed environment of 802.11b clients and 802.11g clients, make sure
that data rates 1, 2, 5.5, and 11 Mbps are set to required (basic) and that all other data rates are set to
enable. The 802.11b adapters do not recognize the 54 Mbps data rate and do not operate if data rates
higher than 11Mbps are set to require on the connecting access point.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure the radio data rates:
Command Purpose
Step1 configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step2 interface dot11radio { 0 | 1slot/port
}
Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface. The
2.4-GHz radio is radio 0, and the 5-GHz radio is radio 1.