Forcing The Client Adapter To Reassociate - Cisco AIR-PCM341 Installation And Configuration Manual

Forcing the Client Adapter to Reassociate

Table F-3
Statistic
Percent Done
Percent Successful
Lost To Target
Lost To Source
Percent Retries
Step 4 When you tap the Stop button or when the Percent Complete reaches 100%, the active mode changes
back to the passive mode.
Step 5 Tap OK to exit the site survey tool.

Forcing the Client Adapter to Reassociate

The client adapter will attempt to maintain its association to an access point for as long as it can.
Therefore if you are on a fringe area while conducting a site survey, you may want to reinitialize (or
restart) the client adapter in an attempt to force it to disassociate from the access point to which it is
currently associated and reassociate to another access point.
Follow the steps below to attempt to force the client adapter to disassociate from its current access point
and reassociate to another during a site survey.
Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Client Adapters Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows CE
F-12
Site Survey Active Mode Statistics (continued)
Description
The percentage of packets that have been transmitted based on the
number specified in the Number of Packets field.
The percentage of packets that were transmitted successfully.
The Percent Successful histogram provides a visual interpretation
of the percentage of packets that are not lost. The value you set
for the Percent Success Threshold is indicated by the red line.
Percentages greater than or equal to this value are displayed as
green bars; percentages below this value are displayed as yellow
bars.
Note
The number of packets that were not transmitted successfully to
the access point.
The number of packets that were not received successfully from
the access point.
The percentage of packets that were retried for transmission.
Note
Refer to the Percent Success Threshold parameter in
Table F-2 for more information.
This value is calculated as follows:
(number of retries x 100) / number of packets sent
If a lot of packets get lost, the number of retries could be
greater than the number of packets sent. Then this field
would show a value greater than 100%.
Appendix F Performing a Site Survey
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