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| Chapter 9 Wireless |
| Table 43 Configuration > Wireless > DCS (continued) | |
| LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
| DCS Sensitivity | Select the AP’s sensitivity level toward other channels. Options are |
| Level | High, Medium, and Low. |
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| Generally, as long as the area in which your AP is located has minimal |
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| interference from other devices you can set the DCS Sensitivity |
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| Level to Low. This means that the AP has a very broad tolerance. |
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| If you are not sure about the number and location of any other |
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| devices in the region, set the level to Medium. The AP’s tolerance for |
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| interference is relatively narrow. |
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| On the other hand, if you know there are numerous other devices in |
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| the region, you should set the level to High to keep the interference |
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| to a minimum. In this case, the |
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| interference is quite strict. |
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| Note: Generally speaking, the higher the sensitivity level, the |
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| more frequently the AP switches channels. As a |
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| consequence, anyone connected to the AP will experience |
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| more frequent disconnects and reconnects unless you |
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| select Enable DCS Client Aware. |
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| Enable DCS Client | Select this to have the AP wait until all connected clients have |
| Aware | disconnected before switching channels. |
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| If you disable this then the AP switches channels immediately |
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| regardless of any client connections. In this instance, clients that are |
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| connected to the AP when it switches channels are dropped. |
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| Select how you want to specify the channels the | |
| Selection Method | AP switches between for 2.4 GHz operation. |
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| Select auto to have the |
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| Channel Deployment field you can use to limit channel switching to |
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| 3 or 4 channels. |
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| Select manual to select the individual channels the |
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| series AP switches between. Select channels from the Available |
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| channels list and use the right arrow button to move them to the |
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| Channels selected list. |
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| This is available when the | |
| Deployment | set to auto. |
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| Select |
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| channels 1,6, and 11, the three channels that are sufficiently |
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| attenuated to have almost no impact on one another. In other words, |
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| this allows you to minimize channel interference by limiting channel- |
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| hopping to these three “safe” channels. |
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| Select |
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| channels. Depending on the country domain, if the only allowable |
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| channels are |
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| 7, 11 in this configuration; otherwise, the |
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| channels 1, 5, 9, 13 in this configuration. Four channel deployment |
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| expands your pool of possible channels while keeping the channel |
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| interference to a minimum. |
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