Z-Com XG-762N manual Turbo Mode, Enable Burst Mode, Large Packet mode

4. Turbo Mode

This chapter describes how to enhance the performance by enabling the ZyDAS turbo mode. Turbo mode is a composition of Burst Mode and Large Packet Mode.

You may known that the so-call ¡°Turbo Mode¡±always has compatibility problems. In order to achieve the highest performance, you need to use the products with same chipset manufacturer (ZyDas) in both AP and Station. The Turbo mode is available on XG-762N with Linux driver only in this moment. Currently, XG-762N supports it in Infrastructure Mode only.

You could enable the both to achieve maximal performance.

4.1 Enable Burst Mode

To enable burst mode, you need to issue the following commands.

iwpriv ethX lp_mode 4

To disable burst mode :

iwpriv ethX lp_mode 5

In Infrastructure mode, You need to re-associate with the AP to update your Turbo Mode status .

4.2 Large Packet mode

In Large Packet mode, small frames are merged into a large one. It can save inter-frame spacing time to raise the performance. The command to activate large packet mode is :

To Enable:

iwconfig ethX rts off iwpriv ethX lp_mode 1

To Disable:

iwpriv ethX lp_mode 0

The ¡°enable¡±means to send with large packet enabling. The receiving capability is always on. For AP mode with lp_mode = 1, it sends large packet to a station only when

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