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User Manual ENGLISH
EAP/OWL-Series Wave 2 Enterprise Access Point
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Beacon Interval (ms): The entered amount of time indicates how often the beacon signal will be sent from
the access point.
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The Beacon Interval must be greater than 500ms when more than 7 VAPs are enabled.
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The Beacon Interval must be greater than 250ms when more than 3 VAPs are enabled
Airtime Fairness: when 802.11a/b/g/n legacy devices occupy airtime, throughput for 802.11ac devices is
affected.
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Enable: to ensure all devices with different band compatibilities have the same air time. This
feature is ideal for networks with devices supporting different bands.
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Preferred Access: N band clients are prioritized. This feature is ideal for networks with devices
supporting different bands.
Packet Delay Threshold (ms): An Access Point may be occupied trying to transmit a packet to a busy client
or a client out of range, hence delaying transmission to other connected clients. When Enabled, this Tx
queue flushing mechanism drops packets and immediately begins to process others if the queue has been
processed for more than x milliseconds, where Default = 0 (disabled). This feature improves the
performance of complex wireless networks but may require some packets to be resent.
Idle Timeout (s): Client disconnects when inactivity reaches the configured amount of time in seconds,
where default = 300s.
Band Steering: When enabled, clients with 5GHz connectivity will be steered towards the 5GHz band to
reduce congestion in the 2.4GHz band. This is applicable only when the AP is set to 2.4GHz and 5GHz on
the 2 RF Cards.
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Aggressive: clients with 5GHz connectivity are forced to connect to the 5GHz band.
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Note that this is a general setting for the Access Point, and is not set per RF Card.
Interference Detection: When Utilization, Latency (and Invalid Packet Rate) of the current channel or
adjacent channel reaches the configured threshold (in %), the AP switches to a different Channel.
WME Configuration: Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), also known as Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), is a
Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification, based on the IEEE 802.11e standard. It provides basic Quality
of service (QoS) features to IEEE 802.11 networks. Access priority can be configured using with different
parameters. CW Min: Contention Window Minimum, CW Max: Contention Window Maximum, AIFS:
Arbitration Inter Frame Spacing, TXOP Limit: Transmission Opportunity Limit.
Transmission Rate Threshold: The client will be kicked when transmission rate is lower than the configured
threshold. This ensures high connection speed for all associated clients.
U-APSD: U-APSD stands for Unscheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery, an 802.11 power save
mechanism that works with WMM. When a client device is in Power Save mode (i.e. its receiver is turned
off and thus cannot receive any data frames), the AP will temporarily buffer all frames destined to the
client.
Note: Features such as Short Preamble, ACK Timeout, and may be limited on RF Card B.