Symbol Technologies WS 2000 - Manual (Page 103)

Retail Use Cases
She clicks the Apply button to save her changes.
Configuring the Cafe Access Port
Finally, she names the third Access Port “Cafe AP” and sets Channel to 9. In this case she
makes sure Support Short Preamble is not selected. There are two preambles in use in
the wireless world, an older, longer one and a newer, shorter one. Most wireless devices
support both and use the shorter one by default. However, in the cafe, there will be older
wireless devices coming in and rather than confuse them, she will stick with the longer
preamble on this WLAN.
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WS 2000 Wireless Switch: 1.0 Date of last Revision: March 2004