knowledge about wireless LAN. These settings should not be changed unless you
know what effect the changes will have on your Access Point.
Beacon Interval: Beacon frames are transmitted by an access point at regular
intervals to announce the existence of the wireless network. The default behavior is
to send a beacon frame once every 100 milliseconds (or 10 per second).
Data Beacon Rate (DTIM): Indicates rate that the access point will advertise to the
network for the purposes of setting up communication with other APs and client
stations on the network. It is generally more efficient to have an AP broadcast a
subset of its supported rate sets.
Fragment Threshold: Setting the Fragment Threshold can limit the size of packets
(frames) transmitted over the network. If a packet exceeds the fragmentation
threshold set here, the fragmentation function will be activated and the packet will
be sent as multiple 802.11 frames. The default is 2346.
RTS Threshold: The RTS threshold specifies the packet size of a request to send
(RTS) transmission. This helps control traffic flow through the access point,
especially one with a lot of clients. The default is 2347
TX Power: Set from l - 100 to control the RF output power. This controls the distance of the
RF signal transmitted.
3.5.3 Wireless Access Security setup
Setup the wireless security and encryption to prevent unauthorized access and
monitoring. It is recommended strongly that you choose this option to encrypt your
wireless network. The Security mode supports WEP(Open/Shared/Auto),
WPA/WPA- PSK/WPA 2/WPA 2-PSK. You must setup the same security
parameters both on your router and the wireless client devices.
3.5.3.1 WEP(Open/Shared/Auto)
WEP is a protocol that adds security to WLAN based on the 802.11b standard . WEP
was designed to give wireless networks the equivalent level of privacy protection as
a comparable wired network. As per figure 16 below, You can pre-set 4 WEP keys. The format
can be ASCII or Hex string, Only the key you selected in the Default Key setting will be used.
