Cisco AIR-PCM340 Installation And Configuration Manual page 84

Configuring Your Client Adapter
Table 5-6
Parameter
RTS Retry Limit
Beacon Period (K s)
Wake Duration (K s)
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Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Adapters Installation and Configuration Guide for Mac OS
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Advanced (Ad Hoc) Parameters (continued)
Description
Specifies the number of times the client adapter resends a
request-to-send (RTS) packet if it does not receive a clear-to-send
(CTS) packet from the previously sent RTS packet.
Setting this parameter to a large value decreases the available
bandwidth whenever interference is encountered but makes the system
more immune to interference and collisions, which may be caused
from a high multipath environment characterized by obstructions or
metallic surfaces.
Range: 1 to 128
Default: 16
Note
Specifies the duration between beacon packets, which are used to help
clients find each other in ad hoc mode.
Range: 20 to 976 K s
Default: 100 K s
Note
Specifies the amount of time following a beacon that the client adapter
stays awake to receive announcement traffic indication message
(ATIM) packets, which are sent to the adapter to keep it awake until
the next beacon.
This parameter is used only in Power Save Mode (Max PSP or Fast
PSP). Refer to the Power Save Mode parameter in the "Setting System
Parameters" section on page 5-7.
Range: 5 to 60 K s
Default: 5 K s
Chapter 5
Refer to the IEEE 802.11 Standard for more information
on the RTS/CTS mechanism.
K s is a unit of measurement in software terms. K = 1024,
-6
= 10 , and s = seconds, so K s = .001024 seconds, 1.024
milliseconds, or 1024 microseconds.
Advanced Configuration on Mac OS 9.x
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