Professional Access Point Administrator Guide

Field

Signal

Utilization

Rx Total

Tx Total

Error Rate

Description

Indicates the strength of the radio frequency (RF) signal the client receives from the access point.

The measure used for this is an IEEE 802.1x value known as Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), and is a value between 0 and 100.

RSSI is determined by a an IEEE 802.1x mechanism implemented on the net- work interface card (NIC) of the client.

Utilization rate for this station.

For example, if the station is active (transmitting and receiving data) 90% of the time and inactive 10% of the time, its utilization rate is 90%.

Receive Total: Indicates number of total packets received by the client during the current session.

Transmit Total: Indicates number of total packets transmitted to the client dur- ing this session.

Indicates the percentage frames that are dropped during transmission on this access point.

Viewing Session Information for Access Points

You can view session information for all access points on the network at the same time, or you can set the display to show session information for a specified access point chosen from the list at the top of the page.

To view information on all access points, select Show all access points at the top of the page.

To view session information on a particular access point, select Show only this access point and select the access point name from the list.

Sorting Session Information

To order (sort) the information in the tables, click on the column label by which you want to order the information rows. For example, if you want to see the table rows ordered by utilization rate, click on the Utilization column label. The entries will be sorted by utilization rate.

Refreshing Session Information

You can force an update of the information displayed on the Session Monitoring page by clicking the Refresh button.

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USRobotics Instant802 APSDK manual Viewing Session Information for Access Points, Sorting Session Information