Symbol Technologies WS 2000 manual Beacon is a packet broadcast by the adopted access ports to

WLAN—Advanced Access Port Settings

8.Set the Access Port beacon settings by clicking on the Beacon Settings button. The following window appears.

9. Set the beacon values as indicated in the table below.

Beacon Interval	A beacon is a packet broadcast by the adopted access ports to
	keep the network synchronized. Included in a beacon is
	information such as the WLAN service area, the access-port
	address, the broadcast destination addresses, a time stamp,
	and indicators about traffic and delivery such as a DTIM.
	Specify a beacon interval in units of 1,000 microseconds (K-us).
	This is a multiple of the DTIM value, for example, 100 : 10.
	Increase the DTIM/beacon settings, lengthening the time, to let
	nodes sleep longer and preserve their battery life. Decreasing
	this value (shorten the time) to support streaming-multicast
	audio and video applications that are jitter-sensitive.
DTIM Period	A DTIM is periodically included in the beacon frame that is
	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
	acknowledgment, so nodes sometimes miss them.
	In this field, the administrator can specify a period for the
	Delivery Traffic Indication Message (DTIM). This is a divisor of
	the beacon interval (in milliseconds); for example, 10 : 100.
	Increase the DTIM/beacon settings, lengthening the time, to let
	nodes sleep longer and preserve their battery life. Decrease this
	settings (shortening the time) to support streaming-multicast
	audio and video applications that are jitter-sensitive.

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WS 2000 Wireless Switch: 1.0 Date of last Revision: March 2004