D-Link DWS 3000 Automatic Power, Initial Power, Advanced Radio Configuration, RF Scan Duration

5 Configuring Access Point Settings

Table 9. Radio Settings

Field	Description
Automatic Power	The power level affects how far an AP broadcasts its RF signal. If the power
	level is too low, wireless clients will not detect the signal or experience poor
	WLAN performance. If the power level is too high, the RF signal might
	interfere with other APs within range.
	Automatic power uses a proprietary algorithm to automatically adjust the RF
	signal to broadcast far enough to reach wireless clients, but not so far that it
	interferes with RF signals broadcast by other APs. The power level algorithm
	increases or decreases the power level in 10% increments based on presence
	or absence of packet retransmission errors.
Initial Power	The automatic power algorithm will not reduce the power below the number
	you set in the initial power field. By default, the power level is 100%.
	Therefore, even if you enable the automatic power, the power of the RF
	signal will not decrease.
	The power level is a percentage of the maximum transmission power for the
	RF signal.

If you access the Access Point Profile Radio configuration through the Advanced Configuration > AP Profile > Radio tab, some additional fields are available for configuration.

The following table describes the fields for the AP radio that are only available from the Advanced Configuration menu.

Table 10. Advanced Radio Configuration

Field	Description
RF Scan Duration	This field controls the amount of time the radio spends scanning the other
	channel (in milliseconds) during an RF scan.
Transmit Lifetime	Shows the number of milliseconds to wait before terminating attempts to
	transmit the MSDU after the initial transmission.
Receive Lifetime	Shows the number of milliseconds to wait before terminating attempts to
	reassemble the MMPDU or MSDU after the initial reception of a fragmented
	MMPDU or MSDU.
Frag Threshold	The fragmentation threshold limits the size of packets transmitted over the
	network. Acceptable values are even numbers from 256-2345. Packets that
	are under the configured size are not fragmented. A value of 2346 means that
	packets are not fragmented.
Short Retries	The value in this field indicates the maximum number of transmission
	attempts on frame sizes less than or equal to the RTS Threshold. The range is
	1-255.
Long Retries	The value in this field indicates the maximum number of transmission
	attempts on frame sizes greater than the RTS Threshold. The range is 1-255.

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