Compaq iPAQ Networking Installation And Setup Manual page 13

Field Function
State This field displays the state of your Wireless PC Card.
Associated is the default value, indicating that your
Wireless PC Card is connected to another wireless adapter,
access point, or wireless gateway. The number shown
after Associated is the MAC address of the Wireless PC
Card or access point.
Scanning means the node is searching for an available
access point and trying to detect the SSID of an access
point within range.
Note: This field displays an error message if the driver fails
to initialize. Click Rescan to search for a connection. When
set to infrastructure mode, the Wireless PC Card will scan
continuously until it finds one or more access points with a
matching SSID. Then it will attempt to authenticate and
associate with the access point.
When the Wireless PC Card is set to peer-to-peer mode, it
scans five seconds for a peer-to-peer network using the
same SSID. If it does not locate one, it starts its own
peer-to-peer network.
Current These two fields display the channel and transmit rate that
Channel and are being used by your Wireless PC Card.
Current Tx
Rate
Throughput These two fields display the wireless receive (Rx) and
transmit (Tx) throughput rates in bytes per second. These
values update every two seconds.
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Link Quality This bar graph is active when the node is in infrastructure
mode. It displays the quality of the link between the node
and its access point. The label above the bar graph
summarizes the quality of the link as Not Applicable, Poor,
Fair, Good, or Excellent. If the link quality is poor, your
Wireless PC Card will search for a better access point.
Note: If you are using peer-to-peer mode, no bar graph is
displayed.
Signal This bar graph is active when the node is in infrastructure
Strength mode. It displays normalized signal strength as reported by
the radio. The strength is averaged among all frames that
are more than 100 bytes long received from the access
point.
Note: If you are using peer-to-peer mode, no bar graph is
displayed.
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