Motorola RFS7000 Series System Reference Manual page 197

DTIM Periods
14. Refer to the Status
error messages if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.
15. Click OK to use the changes to the running configuration and close the dialog.
16. Click Cancel to close the dialog without committing updates to the running configuration.
Configuring Rate Settings
Use the Rate Settings screen to define a set of basic and supported rates for the target radio. This allows the
radio to sync with networks using varying data rates and allows the radio to default to a predefined set of data
rates when higher data rates cannot be maintained.
To configure a radio's rate settings:
1. Click the Rate Settings
be defined for the radio.
2. Check the boxes next to all
Basic Rates are used for management frames, broadcast traffic and multicast frames. If a rate is
selected as a basic rate, it is automatically selected as a supported rate.
3. Check the boxes next to all
Select the DTIM Periods
Traffic Indication Messages (DTIM) for BSSIDs 1 through 4. This is
a divisor of the beacon interval (in milliseconds), for example, 10 :
100. A DTIM is periodically included in the beacon frame
transmitted from adopted access ports. The DTIM period
determines how often the beacon contains a DTIM, for example, 1
DTIM for every 10 beacons. The highest interval permitted is 50 per
BSS. The DTIM indicates broadcast and multicast frames (buffered
at the access port) are soon to arrive. These are simple data frames
that require no acknowledgement, so nodes sometimes miss them.
Increase the DTIM/beacon setting (lengthening the time) to let
nodes sleep longer and preserve their battery life. Decrease these
settings (shortening the time) to support streaming-multicast audio
and video applications that are jitter-sensitive.
field for the current state of the requests made from applet. This field displays
button in the radio edit screen to launch a screen wherein rate settings can
Basic Rates you want supported for this radio.
Supported Rates
button to specify a period for Delivery
supported by this radio.
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