Configuring Advanced Settings; Table 63: Advanced Channel Management Settings - D-Link DWL-3600AP Administrator's Manual

Unified Access Point Administrator's Guide
Configuring Advanced Settings
The advanced settings allow you to customize and schedule the channel plan for the cluster. If you use Channel
Management as provided (without updating Advanced Settings), channels are automatically fine‐tuned once
every hour if interference can be reduced by 25 percent or more. Channels will be re‐assigned even if the
network is busy. The appropriate channel sets will be used (b/g for APs using IEEE 802.11b/g and a for APs using
IEEE 802.11a).
The default settings are designed to satisfy most scenarios where you would need to implement channel
management.
Use Advanced Settings to modify the interference reduction potential that triggers channel re‐assignment,
change the schedule for automatic updates, and re‐configure the channel set used for assignments. If there are
no fields showing in the Advanced section, click the toggle button to display the settings that modify timing
and details of the channel planning algorithm.
Field
Change channels if
interference is reduced by at
least
Determine if there is better set
of channels every
Click Apply under Advanced settings to apply these settings.
Advanced settings will take effect when they are applied and influence how automatic channel management
is performed.
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Table 63: Advanced Channel Management Settings
Description
Specify the minimum percentage of interference reduction a proposed plan
must achieve in order to be applied. The default is 75 percent.
Use the drop‐down menu to choose percentages ranging from 5 percent to
75 percent.
This setting lets you set a gating factor for channel re‐assignment so that the
network is not continually disrupted for minimal gains in efficiency.
For example, if channel interference must be reduced by 75 percent and the
proposed channel assignments will only reduce interference by 30 percent,
then channels will not be re‐assigned. However; if you re‐set the minimal
channel interference benefit to 25 percent and click Apply, the proposed
channel plan will be implemented and channels re‐assigned as needed.
Use the drop‐down menu to specify the schedule for automated updates.
A range of intervals is provided, from 30 Minutes to 6 Months
The default is 1 Hour (channel usage re‐assessed and the resulting channel
plan applied every hour).
Configuring and Viewing Channel Management Settings
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