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Unified Access Point Administrator's Guide Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Figure 13 - Modify Radio Settings The following table describes the fields and configuration options for the Radio Settings page. Field Radio Status (On/Off) MAC Address Mode Channel Description Select Radio 5GHz or 2.4GHz Radio to specify which radio to configure. Specify whether you want the radio on or off by clicking On or Off. If you turn off a radio, the AP sends disassociation frames to all the wireless clients it is currently supporting so that the radio can be gracefully shutdown and the clients can start the association process with other available APs. Indicates the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses for the interface. Dual-radio APs have a unique MAC address for each radio. The Mode defines the Physical Layer (PHY) standard the radio uses. Note: The modes available depend on the country code setting and the radio selected. Select one of the following modes for 5GHz radio: •) IEEE 802.11a •) IEEE 802.11a/n •) IEEE 802.11n •) IEEE 802.11a/n/ac •) IEEE 802.11n/ac •) IEEE 802.11a/n/ac/ax (DWL-X8630AP) Select one of the following modes for 2.4GHz radio: •) IEEE 802.11n •) IEEE 802.11b/g •) IEEE 802.11b/g/n •) IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ax (DWL-X8630AP) Select the Channel. The range of available channels is determined by the mode of the radio interface and the country code setting. If you select Auto for the channel setting, the AP scans available channels and selects a channel where no traffic is detected. The channel defines the portion of the radio spectrum the radio uses for transmitting and receiving. Each mode offers a number of channels, depending on how the spectrum is licensed by national and transnational authorities such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R). When automatic channel assignment is enabled on the Channel Management page for Clustering, the channel policy for the radio is automatically set to static mode, and the Auto option is not available for the Channel field. This allows the automatic channel feature to set the channels for the radios in the cluster. 2021 Unified Access Point Administrator's Guide Page 27