Cisco AP541N-A-K9 Administration Manual page 93

Wireless
Modifying Advanced Settings
Cisco AP 541N Dual-band Single-radio Access Point Quick Start Guide
Table 19 Advanced Settings Field Descriptions
Field Description
Check the transmission rate sets you want the access point
Rate Sets
to support and the basic rate sets you want the access point
to advertise:
Enabling multicast and broadcast rate limiting can improve
Broadcast/
Multicast Rate overall network performance by limiting the number of
Limiting
packets transmitted across the network.
By default the Multicast/Broadcast Rate Limiting option is
enabled. When Multicast/Broadcast Rate Limiting is
disabled, the Rate Limit and Rate Limit Burst fields cannot be
modified.
Enter the rate limit you want to set for multicast and
Rate Limit
broadcast traffic. The limit should be greater than 1; the max
value is 100 packets per second (pps). Any traffic that falls
below this rate limit will always conform and be transmitted
to the appropriate destination.
The default rate limit setting is 100 packets per second.
Setting a rate limit burst determines how much traffic bursts
Rate Limit
Burst can be before all traffic exceeds the rate limit. This burst limit
allows intermittent bursts of traffic on a network above the
set rate limit.
The rate limit burst range is 1-150 packets per second. The
default rate limit burst setting is 150 packets per second.
• Rate is expressed in megabits per second.
• Supported indicates rates that the access point
supports. You can check multiple rates (click a check
box to select or de-select a rate). The access point
automatically chooses the most efficient rate based
on factors like error rates and distance of client
stations from the access point.
• Basic indicates rates that the access point will
advertise to the network for the purposes of setting up
communication with other access points and client
stations on the network. It is generally more efficient to
have an access point broadcast a subset of its
supported rate sets.
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