Manually Configuring a WLAN
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Antenna Selection
Multipath distortion is caused by the reflection of Radio Frequency (RF)
signals traveling from the transmitter to the receiver along more than one
NetDefend firewalls avoid the problems of multipath distortion by using an
ystem. To provide antenna diversity, each wireless
r communicating with wireless stations:
•
Automatic.
The NetDefend firewall receives signals through both
a with the lowest
selection is
is. This is the default.
lways used for communicating.
path. Signals that were reflected by some surface reach the receiver after
non-reflected signals and distort them.
antenna diversity s
security appliance has two antennas.
Specify which antenna to use fo
antennas and automatically selects the antenn
distortion signal to use for communicating. The
made on a per-station bas
•
ANT 1.
The ANT 1antenna is a
•
ANT 2.
The ANT 2 antenna is always used for communicating.
Use manual diversity control (
ANT 1
or
ANT 2
), if there is only one antenna
connected to the appliance.
F
T
hat requires that the IP packet
If you are experiencing significant radio interference, set the threshold to a
), to reduce error penalty and increase overall
throughput.
Other
ld to a high value (around 2000), to reduce
ov
T
ragmentation
hreshold
Type the smallest IP packet size (in bytes) t
be split into smaller fragments.
low value (around 1000
wise, set the thresho
erhead.
he default value is 2346.
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