NETGEAR WNA3100 - Wireless-N 300 USB Adapter User Manual page 36

Wireless-N 300 USB Adapter WNA3100 User Manual
• Wireless Mode. Depending on your wireless adapter, you can choose some of the available
802.11 wireless protocols.
• Fragmentation Threshold. This is the maximum packet size used for fragmentation. Packets
larger than the size programmed in this field are fragmented. The FragmentationThreshold
value must be larger than the RTS Threshold value.
• RTS/CTS Threshold. The packet size that is used to determine whether it should use the
CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) mechanism or the
CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) mechanism for packet
transmission. CSMA/CD is slightly more efficient.
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