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Old 04-16-2007   #1 (permalink)
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My new driver has many options I've never heard of
There are quite a few new options for a driver I got for my Ubiquiti card, but some are cryptic or comepletely unknown to me. I'd like to be able to tweak it, so if anyone knows what some of these do.. i'd appreciate it.

11d Mode switch
Background scan
Background scan max deferral
Bss Aging period
Calibration period
clear list on scan
Country Code -> which country doesn't inhibit ANY settings
No Beacon timeout
Roaming rates
Roaming Rssi's
Scan time pre-sleep
scan type -> what the difference between passive and active
Scan interval
sleep time post-scan
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There are quite a few new options for a driver I got for my Ubiquiti card, but some are cryptic or comepletely unknown to me. I'd like to be able to tweak it, so if anyone knows what some of these do.. i'd appreciate it.

11d Mode switch
Background scan
Background scan max deferral
Bss Aging period
Calibration period
clear list on scan
Country Code -> which country doesn't inhibit ANY settings
No Beacon timeout
Roaming rates
Roaming Rssi's
Scan time pre-sleep
scan type -> what the difference between passive and active
Scan interval
sleep time post-scan
Don't you think you should ask this question here -> http://www.ubnt.com/support.php4
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yes I do. Unfortunately UBNT doesn't seem to agree!!!!! (i.e. no-one could tell me).
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Old 04-16-2007   #4 (permalink)
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There are quite a few new options for a driver I got for my Ubiquiti card, but some are cryptic or comepletely unknown to me. I'd like to be able to tweak it, so if anyone knows what some of these do.. i'd appreciate it.

11d Mode switch
Sets the mode of operation to 802.11d.


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Background scan
Not scanning in the foreground.


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Background scan max deferral
Waits a while before it scans.


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Bss Aging period
This is only available once a month.


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Calibration period
Once a month calibration


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clear list on scan
Clears the list on scan. Duhhh!


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Country Code -> which country doesn't inhibit ANY settings
Norway.


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No Beacon timeout
Does not care if it sees a beacon or not.


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Roaming rates
What you pay while roaming.


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Roaming Rssi's
Roam signal strength.


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Scan time pre-sleep
Scan until you fall asleep.


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scan type -> what the difference between passive and active
Ever hear of google?


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Scan interval
You do know the meaning of the word "interval" right?


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sleep time post-scan
Only used by lineman when on utility poles.
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Thanks for the info. just a little followup:

11d mode switch - the other options don't says 'switch', so i thought maybe this would make it ONLY d

background scanning - whats the pro/con of not scanning in the background?

bss aging - what is this?

calibration - what is it calibrating?

clear list on scan - yeah, i'm a dumbass

roaming rates - good joke.. but they have values like 24000 and 5000. i'm not sure what this means

rssi rates - are there downsides to larger rates?

ok, the rest are sarcastic.. so hopefully someone can tell me about the rest. (And of course i've googled all before I posted here, but unfortunately key word passive and active scanning will give you 500,000 entries.. 3 of which may have an answer.
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ok, the rest are sarcastic.. so hopefully someone can tell me about the rest. (And of course i've googled all before I posted here, but unfortunately key word passive and active scanning will give you 500,000 entries.. 3 of which may have an answer.
Then, obviously, those are the three that you need to read.

It would seem to me, that your Google-Foo is not strong.
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Thanks for the info. just a little followup:

11d mode switch - the other options don't says 'switch', so i thought maybe this would make it ONLY d

background scanning - whats the pro/con of not scanning in the background?

bss aging - what is this?

calibration - what is it calibrating?

clear list on scan - yeah, i'm a dumbass

roaming rates - good joke.. but they have values like 24000 and 5000. i'm not sure what this means

rssi rates - are there downsides to larger rates?

ok, the rest are sarcastic.. so hopefully someone can tell me about the rest. (And of course i've googled all before I posted here, but unfortunately key word passive and active scanning will give you 500,000 entries.. 3 of which may have an answer.
Then read untill you find the three that gives you an answer, unless you are smart, and keep on calling the manufacturer for the information. If one person from their tech support dept, can't answer it, get the name of that person, then ask to get it escalated up to the next level. You'll be amazed how often asking for their name, then ask for their superiors will help in getting things moving.

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well then perhaps you could school me in your masterful arts of searching for common place words in google
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Then read untill you find the three that gives you an answer, unless you are smart, and keep on calling the manufacturer for the information. If one person from their tech support dept, can't answer it, get the name of that person, then ask to get it escalated up to the next level. You'll be amazed how often asking for their name, then ask for their superiors will help in getting things moving.

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again dutch, thanks. I'll try to get someone more knowledgeable there to help me
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well then perhaps you could school me in your masterful arts of searching for common place words in google
Uh sure.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...fi&btnG=Search

I would say your answer is within the first 5 hits.
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well then perhaps you could school me in your masterful arts of searching for common place words in google
"passive scanning"

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,290,000 for passive scanning. (0.24 seconds)

In the first 4 results returned...

"Review: Active vs. passive scanning - Network World"

Yep I bet it would take a while to figure out which one you need to read.
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ok, the rest are sarcastic.. so hopefully someone can tell me about the rest. (And of course i've googled all before I posted here, but unfortunately key word passive and active scanning will give you 500,000 entries.. 3 of which may have an answer.
Actually they were all sarcastic!
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Actually they were all sarcastic!

HAHAHA I was hoping someone would have figured that out. I was rolling on the floor in the office reading that answer.
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