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Setting Wireless Properties
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19. The access point sends Request to Send (RTS) frames to a particular receiving
station to negotiate the sending of a data frame. After receiving an RTS frame, the
station sends a CTS (Clear to Send) frame to acknowledge the right of the sending
station to send data frames. The access points contending for the medium may not
be aware of each other. The RTS/CTS mechanism can solve this “Hidden Node
Problem.” Set the RTS Threshold to the same as that used by other devices in your
network. (The default 2,347 means Disabled.) See “Terminology” on page 42 for a
description of RTS Threshold.