Hi All,
I'm trying to understand the logic behind radio bandwidth.
Our clients seem to get quite poor bandwidth when it comes to WiFi.
We have a mixture of 3825 and 3935 APs within our estates. for the sake of this argument, I'm going to refer to 5ghz radio only.
Max bandwidth on 5ghz for 3825i, 1.3Ghz
Max bandwidth on 5ghz for 3935i, 1.7Ghz
So firstly, based on some behaviour we have noticed, I am right in thinking that radio bandwidth is shared across SSIDs and then clients?
For example, I have tested with a single client connected to 5ghz to which the AP is only broadcasting the relevant SSID and my client is the only client connected to it.
I get excellent data rates and bandwidth, but as soon as i enable an additional SSID on 5ghz (no clients on it) my bandwidth suffers.
at this stage, the AP has two SSIDs on the 5ghz radio, with a single client on one of the SSIDs
It appears then that with multiple SSIDs broadcast on the 5ghz radio, the identifi software allocates/divides half the bandwidth even before clients?
Is this right? I guess then it allows clients access to this allocated bandwidth?
I know having minimum data rates set low will affect the radio etc but right now I have everything tailored to a single client and testing with 1 and 2 SSIDs enabled.
I'm finding it hard to find knowledge around the settings and best practices for the Identifi suite, anyone with knowledge on the above I would be most grateful
Thanks
Ian