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Chapter7 Viewing Status and Statistics
Viewing Statistics for Your Client Adapter
Table 7 -6 interprets each element of the Advanced Statistics window.
Table7-6 Advanced Client Adapter Statistics
Status Description
Transmit Statistics
Frames Transmitted OK The number of frames that were transmitted successfully.
Frames Retried The number of frames that were retried.
Frames Dropped The number of frames that were dropped because of errors or
collisions.
No ACK Frames The number of transmitted frames that did not have their correspon ding
Ack frame received successfully.
ACK Frames The number of transmitted frames that had their corresponding Ack
frame received successfully.
RTS Frames The number of request-to-send (RTS) transmissions that were
attempted.
CTS Frames The number of clear-to-send (CTS) frames that were received in
response to a successfully transmitted RTS frame.
No CTS Frames The numbe r o f re que st-to- send (RTS) transmissions t hat w ere
unsuccessful. The access point sends CTS frames in response to the
client’s RTS frames. This field keeps track of each time the client does
not receive a CTS back from the access point.
Retried RTS Frames The number of request-to-send (RTS) frames that were retransmitted.
Retried Data Frames The number of normal data frames that were retransmitted.
Receive Statistics
Beacons Received The number of beacon frames that were received successfully.
Frames Received OK The number of all frames that were received successfully.
Frames Received with Errors The number of frames that were received with an invalid checksum.
CRC Errors The number of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) errors detected in the
data portion of the frame.
Encryption Errors The number of frames that were received with encryption errors.
Duplicate Frames The number of duplicate frames that were received.
AP Mismatches The number of times the client adapter tried to associate to an access
point but was unable to because the access point was not the adapter’s
specified access point.
Note Refer to the Access Point 1 through Access Point 4 parameters
on page 5-13 for information on specifying access points.
Data Rate Mismatches The number of times the client adapter tried to associate to an access
point but was unable to because the adapter’s data rate was not
supported by the access point.
Note Refer to the Wireless Mode parameter in Table 5 -3 for
information on supported data rates.