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High-Power Wireless AC600 Dual-Band Outdoor Access Point and RepeaterUser Manual
Beacon Interval (ms): A wireless access point sends out specic data packets containing the SSID, the
channel number and security settings. These packets are called beacons. Any client that wants to join a
wireless network listens for these beacon frames, and any wireless client already connected also receives
them whenever they are sent out. The beacon interval controls how often the access point broadcasts the
beacon frames. Possible values range from 20 to 1000 (ms). The shorter the beacon interval, the more often
the beacon frames are sent out. The more often the beacon frames are sent out, the quicker the association
and roaming process will be, but it also leads to more network overhead, which then leads to a drop in
throughput performance. You can increase the beacon interval to reduce the network overhead, but that
comes at the expense of a slightly slower association time, which means it takes just a little bit longer for
wireless clients to join the network. The default value is 100.
Data Beacon Rate (ms): The data beacon rate, also called DTIM (delivery trac indication map) rate noties
a wireless client with power-save mode how many beacons until buered multicast trac will be broadcast
by the access point. The higher the DTIM rate, the longer a client device may sleep and therefore the more
power that particular client device may potentially save. You can specify a value between 1 and 255. The
default value is 1, which makes the DTIM Interval the same as the Beacon Interval.
RTS Threshold: RTS (request to send) packets are sent by wireless clients to access points. The clients
essentially ask for permission to send the next data packet. The lower the threshold, the more stable your
wireless network, since it essentially asks more often when sending packages. The default value is 2347, and
you are well advised to leave this value unchanged.
Broadcast SSID: If disabled, the Intellinet AC600 Access Point will no longer broadcast its network name to
the public. Note that hiding the SSID is not a security feature. If you want to keep unauthorized users from
accessing your wireless network, you need to enable wireless WPA2 encryption.
WMM: WMM stands for WiFi Multimedia. WMM prioritizes network trac in four categories:
1. Voice
2. Video
3. Best eort (this is the majority of trac from applications other than video and voice)
4. Background jobs such as printing, le downloads and other non-latency sensitive applications. Simply
by activating WMM for the SSIDs of the Intellinet Access Point you can already achieve a noticeable
improvement of the quality of service.
AP Isolation: When activated, wireless clients are isolated from one another. Wireless clients can only
communicate with other clients that are connected via the LAN port of the Intellinet Access Point. AP
isolation prevents wireless client to client trac, including broadcasts. Use this option to provide additional
protection for your wireless users in a public network.
Short GI: This option activates the short guard interval (SGI), which can increase your wireless performance
by up to 11%. If your wireless access point is installed in a very crowded network environment, with dierent
access points occupying dierent channels all around you, the slower guard interval of 800 ns will provide
better results.
20/40 MHz Coexist: When set to 20/40MHz, the Intellinet Access Point will‘play nice’with other wireless
networks in range, meaning, it will create less overlap to and interference with other wireless networks in
range. In order to achieve the maximum performance in terms of pure link speed, this value should be set
to 40MHz. However, in busy network environments with many wireless networks, using 40 MHz can actually
be detrimental to the performance. That is because your wireless network occupies a much larger frequency
spectrum and is therefore subject to a potentially larger amount of interference.
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