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UBIQUITI NETWORKS 2.4GHz Air Router User Guide

AirRouter User Guide  
Chapter 3: AirOS™  
System uses Request to Send/Clear to Send frames for the  
handshake which provide collision reduction for access  
point with hidden stations. The stations are sending a  
RTS frame first while data is send only after handshake  
with an AP is completed. Stations respond with the CTS  
frame to the RTS which provides clear media for the  
requesting station to send the data. CTS collision control  
management has a time interval defined during which  
all other stations hold off transmission and wait until the  
requesting station finishes transmission.  
Aggregation A part of the 802.11n standard that allows  
sending multiple frames per single access to the medium  
by combining frames together into one larger frame. It  
creates the larger frame by combining smaller frames with  
the same physical source and destination end points and  
traffic class (i.e. QoS) into one large frame with a common  
MAC header.  
Frames Determines the number of frames combined  
on the new larger frame.  
Bytes Determines the size (in Bytes) of the larger frame.  
Fragmentation Threshold Specifies the maximum size  
for a packet before data is fragmented into multiple  
packets. The range is 256-2346 bytes, or word “off. Setting  
the Fragmentation Threshold too low may result in poor  
network performance.  
Multicast Data This option allows all the Multicast packet  
pass-through functionality. By default this option is  
disabled.  
Enable Extra Reporting Feature will report additional  
information (i.e. Device Name) in the 802.11 management  
frames. This information is commonly used for system  
identification and status reporting in discovery utilities  
and Router operating systems.  
The use of fragmentation can increase the reliability  
of frame transmissions. When sending smaller frames,  
collisions are much less likely to occur. However lower  
values of the Fragmentation Threshold will result in lower  
throughput as well. It is recommended that you only make  
slight modifications or none at all to the Fragmentation  
Threshold value. The default setting of 2346 is optimum in  
most wireless network use cases.  
Enable Client Isolation This option allows packets only  
to be sent from the external network to the CPE and vice  
verse (applicable for Access Point and Access Point WDS  
mode only). If Client Isolation is enabled, wireless stations  
connected to the same AP will not be able to interconnect  
on both the layer 2 (MAC) and layer 3 (IP) level. This is  
effective for associated stations and WDS peers as well.  
The AirRouter has a new auto-acknowledgement  
timeout algorithm which dynamically optimizes the  
frame acknowledgement timeout value without user  
intervention. This is a critical feature required for  
stabilizing long-distance 802.11n outdoor links. The user  
also has the ability to enter the value manually, but it’s not  
recommended.  
Advanced Ethernet Settings  
Distance Specify the distance value in miles (or  
kilometers) using the slider or entering the value manually.  
The signal strength and throughput falls off with range.  
Changing the distance value will change the ACK Timeout  
to the appropriate value of the distance.  
Enable Autonegotiation When enabled, the device will  
automatically negotiate transmission parameters with the  
counterpart, such as speed and duplex. In this process, the  
connected devices first share their capabilities and then  
choose the fastest transmission mode they both support.  
If you want to specify the values manually, disable the  
Enable Autonegotiation option and select the values:  
ACK Timeout Specify the ACK Timeout. Every time the  
station receives the data frame it sends an ACK frame to  
the AP (if transmission errors are absent). If the station  
receives no ACK frame from the AP within set timeout it  
re-sends the frame. The performance drops because if too  
many data frames are re-sent, thus if the timeout is set  
too short or too long, it will result poor connection and  
throughput performance.  
Link Speed, Mbps Selects the maximum transmission  
link speed. There are two options: 10Mbps or 100Mbps.  
If running extra long Ethernet cables, a link speed of  
10Mbps could help to achieve better stability.  
Enable Full Duplex Selects the duplex mode;  
if enabled, the device operates in Full Duplex  
(allowing bidirectional communication in both  
directions simultaneously). While disabled, the  
device operates in Half-Duplex mode (allowing  
bidirectional communication in both directions, but not  
simultaneously and only in one direction at a time.  
Changing the ACK Timeout value will change the Distance  
to the appropriate distance value for the ACK Timeout.  
Auto Adjust Control will enable the ACK Timeout  
Self-Configuration feature. If enabled, ACK Timeout value  
will be derived dynamically using an algorithm similar to  
the Conservative Rate Algorithm (used in AirOS v3.4). It  
is very recommended to use the Auto Adjust option for  
802.11n.  
If two or more stations are located at a considerably  
different distance from the Access Point they are  
associated with, the highest ACK Timeout for the farthest  
station should be set on the AP side. The AirRouter  
includes an improved ACK Timeout algorithm.  
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