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Beacon Interval | Displays the time interval that the WAP uses to |
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| announce itself to remote devices. The Beacon Interval |
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| should be left at 100ms for compliance with most client |
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| cards. The Beacon Interval specifies how often packets |
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| are sent by the Access Point (AP) to synchronize a |
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| wireless network and its clients |
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DTIM Interval | Displays the time interval between |
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| Broadcasts/Multicast transmissions. The DTIM |
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| (Delivery Traffic Indication Message) Interval is a |
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| countdown informing the wireless clients of the next |
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| window for listening to broadcast and multicast |
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| messages. When the AP has buffered broadcast or |
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| multicast messages for associated clients, it sends the |
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| next DTIM with a DTIM Interval value. AP clients hear |
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| the beacons and awaken to receive the broadcast and |
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| multicast messages. The DTIM Interval should be left |
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| at 3 ms for compliance with most client cards |
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Fragmentation | Allows you to set the fragmentation threshold. This |
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Threshold | threshold should be set equivalent to the maximum |
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| Ethernet frame size allowable on the link including |
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| overhead (1536 bytes). Lesser settings can damage data |
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| throughput as large frames could be fragmented or |
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| collisions could occur. The factory default is 2346 |
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RTS Threshold | Determines at what packet size beyond which the |
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| ready to send/clear to send (RTS/CTS) mechanism is |
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| invoked. The factory default is 2347 |
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Configuring Wireless Access Point Access Control
Use the Setup Wireless - Access Control page to configure your configure your wireless access point access control.
Note: If you are not familiar with the advanced settings detailed in this section, contact your service provider before you attempt to change any of the cable modem gateway default wireless advanced settings.
Click Access Control in the Wireless section of the Setup page to access the Setup Wireless - Access Control page.
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