Gigabyte GN-A16B manual Auto Rate, Hidden Essid, RTS Threshold, Fragment Threshold

GN-A16B Wireless Access Point User Guide

1Auto Rate

In this item you can select either “enable”or “disable”. The default value is “enable”.

Enable If the selection is “enable”, the transfer rate will automatically change to the optimum rate allowed. The range of auto-change will base on the setting of “Transmit Rate”.

Transmit Rate setting:

11M : range is among 1M, 2M, 5,5M and 11M

5.5M: range is among 1M, 2M and 5,5M

2M : range is between 1M and 2M

1M : no auto-change. The transmit rate is fixed at 1M.

Disable There is no transfer rate auto-change. The transfer rate will be defined by the “Transmit Rate” column.

1Hidden ESSID

This setting allows you to hide the ESSID in wireless transmission. Those who don’t know the ESSID will not be able connect to the AP. The default value is “disable”.

1RTS Threshold

This value should remain at its default setting of 2347. Should you encounter inconsistent data flow, only minor modifications are recommended. The setting range is 0 ~ 2347.

1ESSID

The ESSID or SSID is the name represent the AP in the wireless network. The ESSID of all AP in your network should set to identical for the mobile client can roam between access points. This ESSID string is case sensitive of up to 32 ASCII characters.

1Fragment Threshold

This value indicates how much of the Access Point’s resources are devoted to recovering packet errors. The value should remain at its default setting of 2346. If you have decreased this value and experience high packet error rates, you can increase it again, but it will likely decrease overall network performance. Only minor modifications of this value are recommended. The setting range is 256 ~ 2346.

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