Motorola WS5100 manual Configuring Rate Settings, Self Healing Offset, Dtim Periods

4-72WS5100 Series Switch System Reference Guide

Self Healing Offset	When an access port increases its power to compensate for a failure, power is increased to
	the country's regulatory maximum. Set the Self Healing Offset to reduce the country's
	regulatory maximum power if access ports are situated close to each other or if access port
	uses an external antenna. For additional information on determining the offset value, see the
	documentation shipped with the access port.
DTIM Periods	Select the DTIM Periods button to specify a period for Delivery Traffic Indication Messages
	(DTIM) for BSS IDs 1-4. This is a divisor of the beacon interval (in milliseconds), for example,
	10 : 100. (See "Beacon Interval," above). A DTIM is periodically included in the beacon frame
	transmitted from adopted access ports. The DTIM period determines how often the beacon
	contains a DTIM, for example, 1 DTIM for every 10 beacons. The DTIM indicates that
	broadcast and multicast frames (buffered at the access port) are soon to arrive. These are
	simple data frames that require no acknowledgement, so nodes sometimes miss them.
	Increase the DTIM/beacon settings (lengthening the time) to let nodes sleep longer and
	preserve their battery life. Decrease these settings (shortening the time) to support
	streaming-multicast audio and video applications that are jitter-sensitive. The default DTIM
	period is 10 beacons for BSS 1-4.

13.Refer to the Status field for the current state of the requests made from applet. This field displays error messages if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.

14.Click OK to use the changes to the running configuration and close the dialog.

15.Click Cancel to close the dialog without committing updates to the running configuration.

Configuring Rate Settings

Use the Rate Settings screen to define a set of basic and supported rates for the target radio. This allows the radio to sync with networks using varying data rates and allows the radio to default to a predefined set of data rates when higher data rates cannot be maintained.

To configure Rate Settings for a radio:

1.Click the Rate Settings button within the radio edit screen to launch a new screen with rate setting information.

2.Check the boxes next to all the Basic Rates you want supported.

Basic Rates are used for management frames, broadcast traffic and multicast frames. If a rate is selected as a basic rate it is automatically selected as a supported rate.

3.Check the boxes next to all the Supported Rates you want supported.