Atheros Client Utility Help

Diagnostics Tab

The Diagnostics tab of the Atheros Client Utility provides buttons used to retrieve receive and transmit statistics. The Diagnostics tab does not require any configuration.

The Diagnostics tab lists the following receive and transmit diagnostics for frames received by or transmitted by the wireless network adapter:

	Multicast packets transmitted and received
	Broadcast packets transmitted and received
	Unicast packets transmitted and received
	Total bytes transmitted and received

Click the Adapter Information button for more general information about the the wireless network adapter and the network driver interface specification (NDIS) driver.

Click the Advanced Statistics button on the Diagnostics tab to also show receive and transmit statistical information for the following receive and transmit diagnostics for frames received by or transmitted to the wireless network adapter:

Transmitted Frames

	Frames transmitted OK
	Frames retried
	Frames dropped
	No ACK frames
	ACK frames
	RTS frames
	Clear-to-send (CTS) frames
	No CTS frames
	Retried RTS frames
	Retried data frames

Received Frames

	Frames received OK
	Beacons
	Frames with errors
	CRC errors
	Encryption errors
	Duplicate frames
	AP mismatches
	Data rate mismatches
	Authentication time-out
	Authentication rejects: the number of AP authentication failures received by the wireless network adapter
	Association time-out
	Association rejects: the number of access point authentication rejects received by the wireless network adapter
	Standard MIC OK
	Standard MIC errors
	CKIP MIC OK
	CKIP MIC errors