[SOLVED] RTS and Fragment Threshold

[Rohit gandikota]

I'm having some kind of interference with my router. What is the best RTS and fragment threshold that I should set it to?

 

[bill001g]

This is one of those experiment and see what works best.

I strongly suspect it will make no difference at all. You are likely trying to use a setting to correct a problem you do not actually have.

This is generally used in a office type of environment where you have a large number of devices attached to a single wifi source. At times these device can not hear each other transmissions and since wifi is a half duplex medium you will get data collision/interference. This setting to some extent can reduce that.

In a home environment the source of interference is likely outside your house. The interfering signal is not attempting to even communicate with your router it is flowing between the neighbors router and their end devices. No matter what you set this value to it will have no effect on the neighbors data transmissions.

 

[Rohit gandikota]

So you mean making any changes to rts and fragment threshold wouldn't make any difference? But I've seen many saying it's useful when in a noisy environment.

 

[bill001g]

Lets put it this way. Your neighbor turns his stereo up really loud and is interfering with your ability to hear your stereo without hear his. No matter what you set in your stereo or anything else in your house will not stop the sound from his system from coming into your house.

That field is mostly used to attempt to avoid data interference between your own devices. Data fragmentation will cause lower throughput and put a much higher burden on your router. You can try it but I doubt it makes any difference. In some cases some application may not function that are dependent on the data not being fragmented.

 

[Rohit gandikota]

Okay, I get what you're trying to say. Thanks for your time here, really appreciate it

 

[SamirD]

In noisy environments the only real solution is to hard wire what you can. This reduces the load on the wireless and can alleviate some of the problems this way as well. Good luck!