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Wireless LAN Management Traffic

Hi all
My WLAN shows about 90% management traffic in the form of beacons. I am using AirMagnet to analyze the network. My plan is to reduce the number of AP's in that location and disable broadcast of SSID.

Is there anything else I need to do to reduce the management traffic overhead?

Thank you

JapyDooge

Maybe it's an idea to get a few high end long range AP's?

Also WEP2+TKIP has way more management traffic than WEP for example but its less secure

dylanites

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Do you think broadcasting SSID adds to management traffic? Also does operating both 802.11b/g contribute to the management overhead?

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shroomduck

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mabutterfield

Disabling the broadcasting of the SSID will not reduce the number of beacons. Disabling SSID broadcast only removes the ssid from the beacon.

On most APs, you can change the beacon interval if you wish to reduce the amount of traffic.

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