Optimize Radio Usage

Management frames such as beacons, and probe and association requests and responses, consume airtime that might otherwise be used to transmit user data. Configure the following settings to minimize management traffic by using higher data rates, and suppressing and reducing probe and association responses under certain circumstances.

Note

Note

Extreme Networks provides defaults for each item in this section. The following steps are optional.
  1. Choose High data rates to transmit management frames at the highest basic data rate specified in an SSID or Low data rates to use the lowest basic data rate.
  2. Select Suppress successive requests within the same beacon interval to enable APs to suppress responses to repeated probe requests from the same client received within a single beacon interval.
  3. Select Suppress response to broadcast probes by to reduce responses to broadcast probe requests by enabling only one of several SSIDs to respond, in rotation, or reduce responses from specific client device types.
    With this feature enabled, select a suppression method:
    1. Select Allowing only one SSID to respond at a time to enable a single SSID to respond at a time.
    2. For Reducing responses to certain client device types select the add icon to add a new MAC OUI.
    Note

    Note

    The suppression setting is disabled by default when high-density WLAN optimization is enabled.
  4. Turn Safety Net on and select how much time passes before a device will again respond to association requests after an overload incident.