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Cisco 877w WEP Key Wireless Configuration

dot11 ssid CommsWireless
vlan 1
authentication open
guest-mode
!
interface Dot11Radio0
no ip address
encryption vlan 1 key 1 size 128bit 7 3D5B79CA337DD1C379430BA081F3 transmit-key
encryption vlan 1 mode wep mandatory
!
ssid CommsWireless
!
speed basic-1.0 basic-2.0 basic-5.5 6.0 9.0 basic-11.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0
station-role root
world-mode dot11d country GB outdoor
!
interface Dot11Radio0.1
encapsulation dot1Q 1 native
bridge-group 1
bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control
bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source no
bridge-group 1 source-learning no
bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding
!
interface Vlan1
no ip address
bridge-group 1
bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
!
!
interface BVI1
description $ES_LAN$
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
ip nat inside
ip virtual-reassembly
!
!
bridge 1 protocol ieee
bridge 1 route ip

!

Cisco Wireless 877w Signal Tweak

Commstest(config)#int dot11Radio0
!
world-mode dot11d country GB outdoor
station-role root access-point
channel 2462
power local cck max
power local ofdm max

!

speed throughput ofdm     –  OFDM Weak Signal Detection ON
speed range
speed 54.0
!
channel least-congested   – Dynamically channel set for least-congested chanel.

config t
interface dot11radio0
channel 2462

This set the channel to 11

I was able to verfiy this using the show controllers command
I found this table with the channels and their respective frequencies

Channel 1 : 2412 Mhz 11g
Channel 2 : 2417 Mhz 11g
Channel 3 : 2422 Mhz 11g
Channel 4 : 2427 Mhz 11g
Channel 5 : 2432 Mhz 11g
Channel 6 : 2437* Mhz 11g
Channel 7 : 2442 Mhz 11g
Channel 8 : 2447 Mhz 11g
Channel 9 : 2452 Mhz 11g
Channel 10 : 2457 Mhz 11g
Channel 11 : 2462 Mhz 11g
!
!
show controllers dot11Radio 0

Configuring the RTS Threshold

Request to Send (RTS) indicates the size of a frame that requires an RTS control message sent before it.
You must keep a few considerations in mind when you set this parameter.

RTS packets are sent more often because of smaller values. In addition, more bandwidth is consumed,
therefore reducing the amount of throughput on the network. However, the more RTS packets sent, the
quicker the system can recover from interference or collisions, which occurs in large, busy networks.

RTS is also helpful when two clients cannot hear each other (for instance, they are on opposite sides of a cell),
although they can hear the AP.

The RTS Threshold setting is between 0 and 2339 bytes. The default value is 2312.

The RTS Max. Retries setting dictates the number of times the AP issues an RTS before it quits.
This setting is a value between 1 and 128. The default value is 32.

Configuring Data Retries

When packets are sent, they can be lost. As such, the AP resends the packets to ensure the packets are
received by the client. You can tell the AP how often to resend packets by configuring the maximum amount
of data retries.

packet retries 128