Advanced Wireless Settings Help

Wireless LAN Parameters

WMM Support

WMM (Wireless Multimedia) is a subset of the 802.11e standard. WMM allows wireless traffic to have a range of priorities, depending on the kind of data. Time-dependent information, like video or audio, will have a higher priority than normal traffic. For WMM to function correctly, Wireless clients must also support WMM.Select Enable or Disable as required.

Default: Disable

RTS Threshold

Request to Send Threshold. The packet size that is used to determine if it should use the CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) mechanism or the CSMA/CA mechanism for packet transmission. With the CSMA/CD transmission mechanism, the transmitting station sends out the actual packet as soon as it has waited for the silence period. With the CSMA/CA transmission mechanism, the transmitting station sends out an RTS packet to the receiving station, and waits for the receiving station to send back a CTS (Clear to Send) packet before sending the actual packet data.

Default: 2346

Fragmentation Length

This is the maximum packet size used for fragmentation. Packets larger than the size programmed in this field will be fragmented. The Fragment Threshold value must be larger than the RTS Threshold value.

Default: 2346

Beacon Interval

The Beacon Interval. Specifies the interval time between 20ms and 1000ms for each beacon transmission.

Default: 100

DTIM Interval

The Delivery Traffic Indication Message. Specifies the data beacon rate between 1 and 255.

Default: 1

Preamble Type

A long transmit preamble may provide a more reliable connection or slightly longer range.  A short transmit preamble gives better performance. Auto will automatically handle both long and short preamble.

Default: Auto


Wireless Optimization Settings

This setting gives you different options that provide best performance in different environments.

11n Max Speed

Best 11n performance with Marvell 11n clients. Default mode.

11b/g/n Mixed Mode

Best overall performance between multiple 11b/g/n wireless clients.