Motorola WS5100 Series Reference Manual page 171

Beacon Interval Specify a beacon interval in units of 1,000 microseconds (K-us). This is a multiple
of the DTIM value, for example, 100: 10. (See "DTIM Period," below). A beacon is
a packet broadcast by the adopted access ports to keep the network synchronized.
Included in a beacon is information such as the WLAN service area, the radio-port
address, the broadcast destination addresses, a time stamp, and indicators about
traffic and delivery such as a DTIM. Increase the DTIM/beacon settings
(lengthening the time) to let nodes sleep longer and preserve battery life.
Decrease these settings (shortening the time) to support streaming-multicast
audio and video applications that are jitter-sensitive. The default is
100 K-us.
Self Healing Offset When an access port increases its power to compensate for a failure, power is
increased to the country's regulatory maximum. Set the Self Healing Offset to
reduce the country's regulatory maximum power if access ports are situated close
to each other or if an access port uses an external antenna.
DTIM Periods Select the DTIM periods button to specify a period for Delivery Traffic Indication
Messages (DTIM) for BSS IDs 1-4. This is a divisor of the beacon interval (in
milliseconds), for example, 10 : 100. (See "Beacon Interval," above). A DTIM is
periodically included in the beacon frame transmitted from adopted access ports.
The DTIM period determines how often the beacon contains a DTIM, for example,
1 DTIM for every 10 beacons. The DTIM indicates broadcast and multicast frames
(buffered at the access port) are soon to arrive. These are simple data frames that
require no acknowledgement, so nodes sometimes miss them. Increase the DTIM/
beacon settings (lengthening the time) to let nodes sleep longer and preserve their
battery life. Decrease these settings (shortening the time) to support streaming-
multicast audio and video applications that are jitter-sensitive. The default DTIM
period is 10 beacons for BSS 1-4.
15.Refer to the Status field for the current state of the requests made from applet. This field displays error
messages if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.
16.Click OK to use the changes to the running configuration and close the dialog.
17.Click Cancel to close the dialog without committing updates to the running configuration.
Configuring Rate Settings
Use the Rate Settings screen to define a set of basic and supported rates for the target radio. This allows
the radio to sync with networks using varying data rates and allows the radio to default to a predefined set
of data rates when higher data rates cannot be maintained.
To configure Rate Settings for a radio:
1. Click the Rate Settings
information.
2. Check the boxes next to all the
Basic Rates are used for management frames, broadcast traffic and multicast frames. If a rate is selected
as a basic rate it is automatically selected as a supported rate.
3. Check the boxes next to all the
button within the radio edit screen to launch a new screen with rate setting
Basic Rates you want supported.
Supported Rates you want supported.
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