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:

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