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TL-MR3040 Portable Battery Powered 3G/4G Wireless N Router

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4.6.4 Wireless Advanced

Choose menu “Wireless→Wireless Advanced”, you can configure the advanced settings of

your wireless network.

Figure 4-32 Wireless Advanced

¾ Beacon Interval - Enter a value between 40-1000 milliseconds for Beacon Interval here.

The beacons are the packets sent by the router to synchronize a wireless network. Beacon

Interval value determines the time interval of the beacons. The default value is 100.

¾ RTS Threshold - Here you can specify the RTS (Request to Send) Threshold. If the

packet is larger than the specified RTS Threshold size, the router will send RTS frames to

a particular receiving station and negotiate the sending of a data frame. The default value

is 2346.

¾ Fragmentation Threshold - This value is the maximum size determining whether packets

will be fragmented. Setting the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in poor

network performance since excessive packets. 2346 is the default setting and is

recommended.

¾ DTIM Interval - This value determines the interval of the Delivery Traffic Indication

Message (DTIM). A DTIM field is a countdown field informing clients of the next window for

listening to broadcast and multicast messages. When the router has buffered broadcast or