NETGEAR WPN802 manual 3 Advanced Wireless Settings menu

Reference Manual for the NETGEAR RangeMax™ Wireless Access Point WPN802

Figure 4-3: Advanced Wireless Settings menu

•Enable SuperG Mode: SuperG Mode may increase the overall wireless performance. The default setting is Yes.

•RTS Threshold: Request to Send Threshold. The packet size that is used to determine if it should use the CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) mechanism or the CSMA/CA mechanism for packet transmission. With the CSMA/CD transmission mechanism, the transmitting station sends out the actual packet as soon as it has waited for the silence period. With the CSMA/CA transmission mechanism, the transmitting station sends out an RTS packet to the receiving station, and waits for the receiving station to send back a CTS (Clear to Send) packet before sending the actual packet data. The default is 2346.

•Fragmentation Length: The maximum packet size used for fragmentation. Packets larger than the size programmed in this field will be fragmented. The Fragment Threshold value must be larger than the RTS Threshold value. The default is 2346

•Beacon Interval: The interval time between 20ms and 1000ms for each beacon transmission. The default is 100.

•DTIM Interval: The Delivery Traffic Indication Message. Specifies the data beacon rate between 1 and 255. The default is 1.

•Preamble Type: A long transmit preamble may provide a more reliable connection or slightly longer range. A short transmit preamble gives better performance. Auto will automatically handle both long and short preamble. The default is Auto.

4-4 Wireless Configuration

202-10101-01, 4 May 2005