Edimax Technology Broadband Router - Manual (Page 25)

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2.4.2 Advanced Settings
You can set advanced wireless LAN parameters of this router. The parameters include Authentication Type, Fragment
Threshold, RTS Threshold, Beacon Interval, preamble Type
…… You should not change these parameters unless you
know what effect the changes will have on this router.
Parameters Description
Fragment Threshold
"Fragment Threshold" specifies the maximum size of packet during the fragmentation of
data to be transmitted. If you set this value too low, it will result in bad performance.
RTS Threshold
When the packet size is smaller the RTS threshold, the wireless router will not use the
RTS/CTS mechanism to send this packet.
Beacon Interval
The interval of time that this wireless router broadcast a beacon. Beacon is used to
synchronize the wireless network.
DTIM Period
The DTIM period you specify here indicates how often the clients served by this access
point should check for buffered data still on the AP awaiting pickup.
Data Rate
The “Data Rate” is the rate this access point uses to transmit data packets. The access
point will use the highest possible selected transmission rate to transmit the data packets.
Preamble Type
The “Long Preamble” can provide better wireless LAN compatibility while the “Short
Preamble ” can provide better wireless LAN performance.
Broadcast ESSID
If you enable “Broadcast ESSID”, every wireless station located within the coverage of
this access point can discover this access point easily. If you are building a public
wireless network, enabling this feature is recommended. Disabling
“Broadcast ESSID”
can provide better security.
IAPP
If you enable “IAPP”, it will allow wireless station roaming between IAPP enabled access
points within the same wireless LAN.
CTS Protect
It is recommended to enable the protection mechanism. This mechanism can decrease
the rate of data collision between 802.11b and 802.11g wireless stations. When the
protection mode is enabled, the throughput of the AP will be a little lower due to many of
frame traffic should be transmitted.
Tx Power
You can adjust the wireless transmit power here. By reduce the tx power can let the
wireless signal only cover your working area.
Turbo Mode By enable the turbo mode can enhance the throughput up to 35Mbps.
WMM
WMM stands for Wi-Fi Multimedia. It is a standard created to define quality of service
(QoS) in Wi-Fi networks. This adds prioritized capabilities to Wi-Fi networks and
optimizes their performance when multiple concurring applications, each with different
latency and throughput requirements, compete for network resources.
Click <Apply> at the bottom of the screen to save the above configurations. You can now configure other advance
sections or start using the router.