Cisco Aironet 340 Series Installation And Configuration Manual page 114

Using Passive Mode
Table E-1
Table E-1
Statistic
The first line of the Site Survey -
Passive screen
Signal Strength
Signal Quality
(Beacons Received is displayed
instead if your firmware version is
less than 4.05)
Link Speed
Overall Link Quality
Step 2 If you want to activate the site survey active mode, go to the
Otherwise, click OK or Cancel to exit the site survey application.
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interprets the information that is displayed on the Site Survey - Passive screen.
Site Survey Passive Mode Statistics
Description
Indicates the operational mode of your client adapter and the
name or MAC address of any associated access point.
Value: Associated, Not Associated, Authenticated, or
The signal strength for all received packets. The higher the value
and the more green the bar graph is, the stronger the signal.
The histogram below the bar graph provides a visual
interpretation of the current signal strength. Differences in signal
strength are indicated by the following colors: green (strongest),
yellow (middle of the range), and red (weakest).
Range: 0 to 100%
The signal quality for all received packets. The higher the value
and the more green the bar graph is, the clearer the signal.
The histogram below the bar graph provides a visual
interpretation of the current signal quality. Differences in signal
quality are indicated by the following colors: green (highest
quality), yellow (average), and red (lowest quality).
Range: 0 to 100%
The rate at which your client adapter is receiving echo packets
from its associated access point.
The Link Speed histogram provides a visual interpretation of the
current rate at which your client adapter is receiving packets.
Differences in link speed are indicated by the following colors:
green (fastest), yellow (middle of the range), and red (slowest).
Value: 1, 2, 5.5, or 11 Mbps
Note
The client adapter's ability to communicate with the access point.
Value: Not Associated, Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent
Ad Hoc Mode
To examine real-time link speed for your client adapter,
use the active mode. In passive mode, the link-speed
indicator reports the speed of echo packets and does not
indicate real-time link speed.
"Using Active Mode" section on page
Appendix E Performing a Site Survey
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