Wirel ess LAN AP Conf igurati on
Parameter Description
Authenticatio n
Type
There ar e two au thenti cation types :
“Open S ystem” a nd “Shar ed K ey”.
When you s elect “ Ope n System” ,
wireless stati ons ca n associ ate with
this access p oint without W EP
encrypti o n. Wh en y ou selec t “Sh ared
Key”, you shoul d also setup WEP ke y
in the “ Encryp tion” page and wirel ess
statio ns should use W EP encr ypti on in
the authent i cati on phas e to as soc i a te
with this access point. If you select
“Auto”, t he wir eless client can
associate with this access point by
using an y one o f these two
authenti catio n types.
Fragment
Threshol d
“Frag ment Thr eshold” specifi es t he
maximu m size of pack et duri ng the
fragmentation of data to b e transmitted .
If you set this value too low, it will result
in bad p erfor mace.
RTS Thr eshold
When the packet size i s smal ler th e
RTS thres ho ld, the access poin t will
not use the RTS/C T S mec hanis m to
send this pac ket.
Beacon Int er v al
The interval o f time that thi s access
point br oadcas t a beac on. B eacon i s
used to s ynchro nize the wirel ess
networ k.
Data Rate
The “Dat
a
Rate” is the rate this ac cess
point uses to t ransmi t data p acke ts.
The access point will use the highest
possible select ed tr ansmiss ion r ate to
transmit the d ata
p
ackets.
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