Edimax Technology Broadband Router manual Advanced Settings, Fragment Threshold, RTS Threshold

2.4.2 Advanced Settings

You can set advanced wireless LAN parameters of this router. The parameters include Authentication Type, Fragment Threshold, RTS Threshold, Beacon Interval, preamble Type …… You should not change these parameters unless you

know what effect the changes will have on this router.

Parameters	Description
Fragment Threshold	"Fragment Threshold" specifies the maximum size of packet during the fragmentation of
	data to be transmitted. If you set this value too low, it will result in bad performance.
RTS Threshold	When the packet size is smaller the RTS threshold, the wireless router will not use the
	RTS/CTS mechanism to send this packet.
Beacon Interval	The interval of time that this wireless router broadcast a beacon. Beacon is used to
	synchronize the wireless network.
DTIM Period	The DTIM period you specify here indicates how often the clients served by this access
	point should check for buffered data still on the AP awaiting pickup.
Data Rate	The “Data Rate” is the rate this access point uses to transmit data packets. The access
	point will use the highest possible selected transmission rate to transmit the data packets.
Preamble Type	The “Long Preamble” can provide better wireless LAN compatibility while the “Short
	Preamble” can provide better wireless LAN performance.
	If you enable “Broadcast ESSID”, every wireless station located within the coverage of
Broadcast ESSID	this access point can discover this access point easily. If you are building a public
	wireless network, enabling this feature is recommended. Disabling “Broadcast ESSID”
	can provide better security.
IAPP	If you enable “IAPP”, it will allow wireless station roaming between IAPP enabled access
	points within the same wireless LAN.
	It is recommended to enable the protection mechanism. This mechanism can decrease
CTS Protect	the rate of data collision between 802.11b and 802.11g wireless stations. When the
	protection mode is enabled, the throughput of the AP will be a little lower due to many of
	frame traffic should be transmitted.
Tx Power	You can adjust the wireless transmit power here. By reduce the tx power can let the
	wireless signal only cover your working area.
Turbo Mode	By enable the turbo mode can enhance the throughput up to 35Mbps.
	WMM stands for Wi-Fi Multimedia. It is a standard created to define quality of service
WMM	(QoS) in Wi-Fi networks. This adds prioritized capabilities to Wi-Fi networks and
	optimizes their performance when multiple concurring applications, each with different
	latency and throughput requirements, compete for network resources.

Click <Apply> at the bottom of the screen to save the above configurations. You can now configure other advance sections or start using the router.

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