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
NoACK 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

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