Viewing The Link Status Meter - Cisco Aironet Installation And Configuration Manual

Viewing the Link Status Meter

Table 7-4
Statistic
Packets Deferred Energy Detect
Packets Retry Long
Packets Retry Short
Packets Max Retries
Packets Ack Received
Packets No Ack Received
Packets CTS Received
Packets No CTS Received
Packets Aged

Viewing the Link Status Meter

ACU's link status meter can be used to assess the performance of your client adapter's RF link. If this
tool is used to assess the RF link at various locations, you can avoid areas where performance is weak
and eliminate the risk of losing the connection between your client adapter and an access point.
To open the link status meter, open ACU; then click the Link Status Meter icon or select Link Status
Meter from the Commands drop-down menu. The Link Status Meter screen appears (see
Note The name of the current profile appears in parentheses at the top of the screen.
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Client Adapter Statistics (continued)
Description
The number of packets that were delayed because RF energy was
already detected. This condition is usually caused by another
radio transmitting a packet or by some other RF source jamming
the signal (such as a microwave oven).
The number of normal data packets that were retransmitted.
The number of request-to-send (RTS) packets that were
retransmitted.
The number of packets that failed to be transmitted successfully
after exhausting the maximum number of retries.
The number of transmitted packets that had their corresponding
acknowledgment (Ack) packet received successfully.
The number of transmitted packets that did not have their
corresponding Ack packet received successfully.
The number of clear-to-send (CTS) packets that were received in
response to an RTS packet.
The number of packets for which no CTS packet was received in
response to an RTS packet.
The number of packets that were discarded by the client adapter
because they were not transmitted successfully within 5 seconds.
Chapter 7 Performing Diagnostics
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