HP ProCurve Wireless Access Point 420 - Hewlett Packard

Access Point Configuration
Modifying Radio Settings
Not e If you are using the worldwide product, J8131A, before you can configure the
radio settings the Country Setting must be set using the CLI. See “Using the
CLI to Set the Country Code” on page 5-41.
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The web interface enables you to modify these parameters:
■ Working Mode: Selects a standard operating mode for the access point.
• b & g mixed mode: Both 802.11b and 802.11g clients can communicate
with the access point. This is the default configuration.
• g only mode: Only 802.11g clients can communicate with the access
point.
• b only mode: Both 802.11b and 802.11g clients can communicate with
the access point, but 802.11g clients can only transfer data at 802.11b
standard rates (up to 11 Mbps).
■ Radio: Enables radio communications on the access point.
■ Radio Channel: The radio channel that the access point uses to communicate
with wireless clients. When multiple access points are deployed in
the same area, be sure to choose a channel separated by at least five
channels to avoid having the channels interfere with each other. You can
deploy up to three access points in the same area (for example, channels
1, 6, 11).
■ Auto Channel Select: Enables the access point to automatically select
an unoccupied radio channel.
■ Transmit Power: Adjusts the power of the radio signals transmitted from
the access point. The higher the transmission power, the farther the
transmission range.
■ Maximum Station Data Rate: The maximum data rate at which a client
can connect to the access point. The maximum transmission distance is
affected by the data rate. The lower the data rate, the longer the transmission
distance.
■ Beacon Interval: The rate at which beacon signals are transmitted from
the access point. The beacon signals allow wireless clients to maintain
contact with the access point. They may also carry power-management
information.
■ Data Beacon Rate: The rate at which stations in sleep mode must wake
up to receive broadcast/multicast transmissions.
Known also as the Delivery Traffic Indication Map (DTIM) interval, it
indicates how often the MAC layer forwards broadcast/multicast traffic,
which is necessary to wake up stations that are using Power Save mode.
The default value of 2 indicates that the access point will save all broadcast/multicast
frames for the Basic Service Set (BSS) and forward them