Compex Technologies WPE54 - Manual (Page 40)

Chapter 4 Common Configuration
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The Beacon Interval is the amount of time
between beacon transmissions. A beacon is
a guidance signal sent by the access point to
announce its presence to other access
points. It also sends information, such as
timestamp, SSID, and other parameters
regarding the access point to other access
points that are within the specified range.
The access point needs the beacon interval
to know when to receive the beacon from
the other access point.
The Data Beacon Rate (DTIM) determines
how often the beacon contains a delivery
traffic indication message (DTIM). The
DTIM tells power-save client devices that a
packet is waiting for them. If the beacon
period is set at 100, its default setting, and
the data beacon rate is set at 1, its default
setting, then the access point sends a beacon
containing a DTIM every 100 K
μsecs. One
K
μsec equals 1,024 microseconds.
The RTS/CTS Threshold value determines
the minimum size of a packet in bytes that
would trigger the RTS/CTS mechanism.
The Frag Threshold value indicates the
maximum size that a packet can reach
without being fragmented. This value
ranges from 256 to 2346 bytes.
The Transmit Power drop-down list lets
you pick from a range of transmission
power.
Enabling Radio Off When Ethernet No
Link option allows your AP to turn off the
radio signal so that no wireless clients can
connect to it. This might occur when your
This value extends from 256 to 2346 bytes,
where a value of 0 indicates that all the packets
should be transmitted using RTS.
In AP/Gateway mode ONLY: