Data Rate Recommendations

Vocera recommends enabling lowest g rates as mandatory. Enabling rates allows a badge to shift to different rate for a more reliable transmission. Badges rely on data rates to receive beacons.

When designing a network to support WLAN devices, industry best practices encourage enabling higher 802.11 basic data rates (11 Mbps optimal) and removing support for lower rates (1, 2, 5.5 Mbps). If you absolutely need to enable b data rates, configure your 802.11 beacons for 11 Mbps, when your AP or controller solution allows it.

Low-speed frames, for example, 1 and 2Mbps decrease the overall throughput of your wireless network. As you add APs and devices to your wireless network, ensure that you recheck channel utilization so that it stays within acceptable level of 30%. For more information, refer to Overlapping Cells and Data Rates.