Configuring Advanced Settings - ProSoft Technology RLX2-IHW-E User Manual

RLX2-IHx Series ♦ 802.11a, b, g, n
Industrial Hotspots
4.4

Configuring Advanced Settings

It is important to allow many industrial protocols to communicate properly over the RLX2-
IHx series radios. The standard 802.11 AP operation for transmitting broadcast
messages is to accumulate them and transmit them on specific time intervals. This
allows clients that are in power-save mode to wake up at the synchronized time interval
and receive the broadcast packets. However, the power-save mode is rarely used in
industrial networks.
Additionally, many industrial protocols utilize multicast traffic, which is sent as broadcast
messages over the wireless network. By enabling immediate broadcasting, these
multicast messages are not delayed by waiting for the next time interval to occur. This
results in improved network performance.
The settings allow you to configure the transmission rate and broadcast mode to
optimize this radio's use on an industrial network.
Advanced settings include:
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