Cisco AIR-PCM340 Installation And Configuration Manual page 124

Diagnostic Tools for Mac OS 9.x
Table 7-1
Client Adapter Setting
Status
Signal Strength
Current Beacons Received
Overall Link Quality
SSID
Name
IP Address
MAC
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Client Adapter Status (continued)
Description
The operational mode of your client adapter.
Value: Error, Configured, Associated, Not Associated, or
The signal strength for all received packets. The higher the value and
the longer the green the bar graph is, the stronger the signal.
Range: 0 to 100%
The percentage of beacon packets received versus those expected to be
received. The higher the value and the longer the green the bar graph is,
the better the quality of the signal.
Example:The access point sends out 10 beacons per second, so you
would expect the client adapter to receive 50 beacon packets in 5
seconds. If it receives only 40 packets, the percentage of beacons
received would be 80%.
Range: 0 to 100%
The client adapter's ability to communicate with the access point,
which is determined by the combined result of the adapter's signal
strength and signal quality.
Value: Not Associated, Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent
The SSID that your client adapter is currently using if you are in
infrastructure mode.
Note
The name of the access point to which your client adapter is associated.
It is shown only if the access point was configured with a name and you
are in infrastructure mode.
The IP address of the access point to which your client adapter is
associated. It is shown only if the access point was configured with an
IP address and you are in infrastructure mode.
The MAC address of the access point to which your client adapter is
associated. It is shown only if you are in infrastructure mode.
Ad Hoc Mode
Refer to the SSID1 parameter in
on the client adapter's SSID.
Chapter 7 Performing Diagnostics
Table 5-1 for information
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