Wireless Lan Technical Reference - ZyXEL Communications P-2612HNU-Fx User Manual

Chapter 7 Wireless LAN

7.8 Wireless LAN Technical Reference

The following section contains additional technical information about the ZyXEL
Device features described in this chapter.
The following table describes some wireless network terms and acronyms used in
the ZyXEL Device's Web Configurator.
Table 33 Additional Wireless Terms
TERM
RTS/CTS Threshold
Authentication
Fragmentation
Threshold
Refer to
148
DESCRIPTION
In a wireless network which covers a large area, wireless devices
are sometimes not aware of each other's presence. This may cause
them to send information to the AP at the same time and result in
information colliding and not getting through.
By setting this value lower than the default value, the wireless
devices must sometimes get permission to send information to the
ZyXEL Device. The lower the value, the more often the devices must
get permission.
If this value is greater than the fragmentation threshold value (see
below), then wireless devices never have to get permission to send
information to the ZyXEL Device.
The process of verifying whether a wireless device is allowed to use
the wireless network.
A small fragmentation threshold is recommended for busy networks,
while a larger threshold provides faster performance if the network
is not very busy.
Appendix D on page 345 for more information.
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