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Looking for some settings recommendations for AP150w in dorm rooms

lthomas — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:14:30 GMT

I am looking for some recommendations on power settings for a Multi-dwelling unit building of dorms. Construction is primarily cinder block. Just installed and initially for testing have set power levels to 2.4ghz-8 and 5ghz-11. I am thinking I need to lower power on these but wondered if anyone had any input on possible similar scenarios and what they are running. Thanks for any input

Re: Looking for some settings recommendations for AP150w in dorm rooms

samantha_lynn — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 23:51:18 GMT

Do you have an AP per dorm room, or a few in the hallways covering sections of rooms? With an AP in each room you'll likely need to drop the power down to 1 or 2dBm, but with an AP in the hallway covering multiple rooms you'll want to use the Map tabs heat map function to adjust the power levels to find a balance between not overlapping signals and covering the entire area.

To find out if you are overlapping signals (which causes packet damage, which causes slow wifi) you can run the command 'show acsp neighbor' and look for any RSSI values in the -50-0 range. -75- -100 is what we want to see for the RSSI values, anything in the -50's on up is too loud and you'll want to lower the power on the neighboring APs.

Re: Looking for some settings recommendations for AP150w in dorm rooms

lthomas — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 01:07:47 GMT

ap per room. We had a hallway setup but it was not very good with building construction and not a lot of AP's for coverage

Re: Looking for some settings recommendations for AP150w in dorm rooms

lthomas — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 01:28:58 GMT

I realize every single scenario is going to be different based on building/materials etc but I would think aerohive would benefit from giving out some info on a suggested starting point with settings on these devices. Obviously aimed at MDU so even if not exact, a good starting point would be helpful for customers. Thanks for providing me with some help. I appreciate it. I didn't figure I would want to go below like 3dBm and I will start there and see if I feel the need to go lower.

Re: Looking for some settings recommendations for AP150w in dorm rooms

lthomas — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:34:39 GMT

1 to 2dbm for 2.4ghz.

any suggestions for 5ghz.

current setup per room is

Re: Looking for some settings recommendations for AP150w in dorm rooms

samantha_lynn — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:10:11 GMT

I'd take a look at your neighbor list with "show acsp neighbor" at this point to see if there are any loud neighbors on the wifi1 band. If we see loud neighbors, we'll want to continue to turn the power down on the 5GHz radio. If you want to send me tech data from the AP I can check the neighbor list for you and let you know what I find. My direct email address is communityhelp@aerohive.com.