Mac Filtering - TP-Link TL-ER604W User Manual

Beacon Interval:
RTS Threshold:
Fragmentation
Threshold:
DTIM Interval:
Tips:
The modification of the Wireless Advanced will take effect only after the router is rebooted.
MAC
3.2.2 Filtering
On this page, you can control the wireless access by configuring the MAC Filtering.
Choose the menu User Wireless→MAC Filtering to load the following page.
Enter a value between 40-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here.
The beacons are the packets sent by the router to synchronize a
wireless network. Beacon Interval value determines the time interval of
the beacons. The default value is 100.
Here you can specify the RTS (Request to Send) Threshold. If the
packet is larger than the specified RTS Threshold size, the router will
send RTS frames to a particular receiving station and negotiate the
sending of a data frame. The default value is 2346.
This value is the maximum size determining whether packets will be
fragmented. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in
poor network performance since excessive packets. 2346 is the default
setting and is recommended.
This value determines the interval of the Delivery Traffic Indication
Message (DTIM). A DTIM field is a countdown field informing clients of
the next window for listening to broadcast and multicast messages.
When the Router has buffered broadcast or multicast messages for
associated clients, it sends the next DTIM with a DTIM Interval value.
You can specify the value between 1-255 Beacon Intervals. The default
value is 1, which indicates the DTIM Interval is the same as Beacon
Interval.
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