Configuring Advanced Wireless Lan Settings - NETGEAR WG102 - ProSafe Wireless Access Point Reference Manual

Reference Manual for the NETGEAR ProSafe 802.11g Wireless Access Point WG102

Configuring Advanced Wireless LAN Settings

The default advanced wireless LAN parameter settings usually work well. If you want the AP to
operate in Super-G mode, use this feature.
Figure 5-4: Advanced Wireless Settings screen
The advanced wireless parameters settings normally do not need to be changed.
• Super-G Mode: Super-G Mode is a proprietary extension to the 802.11g standard which can
double the throughput to 108Mbps. Only compatible Wireless stations can use this mode. The
default is Disable.
• WMM support: WMM (Wireless Multimedia) is a subset of the 802.11e standard. WMM
allows wireless traffic to have a range of priorities, depending on the kind of data.
Time-dependent information, like video or audio, will have a higher priority than normal
traffic. For WMM to function correctly, Wireless clients must also support WMM. The default
is Disable.
• RTS Threshold: Request to Send Threshold. The packet size that is used to determine if it
should use the CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection)
mechanism or the CSMA/CA mechanism for packet transmission. With the CSMA/CD
transmission mechanism, the transmitting station sends out the actual packet as soon as it has
waited for the silence period. With the CSMA/CA transmission mechanism, the transmitting
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Advanced Configuration