topic Re: How to Increase my Wireless Speed on AP305C? in ExtremeWireless (IQE)

How to Increase my Wireless Speed on AP305C?

Saravana_inflow — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 09:09:20 GMT

Hi Team,

we are using AP305C, we can get speed 30 MBPS only. same time if we using Sophos AP55C, we can get speed upto 300 MBPS.

kindly suggest how can increase the speed in AP305C.

Please refer tested attachment also. these testing all are in same place in same network.

Re: How to Increase my Wireless Speed on AP305C?

SamPirok — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:26:48 GMT

Hi there, thank you for those pictures. The most common cause of slow wireless speeds is radio frequency interference. I would recommend starting with these guides that walk through how to identify interference on your network, and how to troubleshoot interference in general.

Troubleshooting RF Interference

How high CPU, multicast, or RF interference can cause poor performance and/or AP failure.

Re: How to Increase my Wireless Speed on AP305C?

AndreasB — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:21:28 GMT

Hello,

the Speedtest indicates not just your actual connection with the access point.
The Speedtest indicates just the Speed you can reach with the current connection at your company network.
When a service started , like a Video Conference and or other Business related connections the company network and internet connection my lower your connection to the internet and the possible available bandwith.

Therefore it would be a pleasure to get more Information of your Test environment befor we should just point it to a trouble shooting guide.
1. Actual Landline Speed
2. Network Environment
3. Test Scenario
4. Configurations like : Quality of Service , Load Balancing Systems etc.

or is it just a private enviroment where its gonna be tested ?
and even there : if you test the speed with to different APs you need to make sure the the internet connection isn't used by another user for the same test conditions.

kind regards,

Andreas

Re: How to Increase my Wireless Speed on AP305C?

dpanev — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:55:12 GMT

Change from 20 mhz to 40 or 80 mhz on your 5 ghz radio and you will increase the speed. legacy clients could have trouble with that. dont do it on your 2 ghz radio

Re: How to Increase my Wireless Speed on AP305C?

Adam_Minowski — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:16:09 GMT

Not a good advice at all. As he cannot reach "normal/decent" speeds, wider channels, will just utilize larger spectrum without any reasonable gain. With 2x2 MIMO he should easily reach far better real throughput than 30Mbps even with 20MHz.

My lucky guess would be to check SSID settings and check if WMM is enabled, and TKIP is not in use. For me it looks like connection speed limit to 54Mbps.

Re: How to Increase my Wireless Speed on AP305C?

DeVoID — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:59:39 GMT

I use MetaGeek products for troubleshooting RF interference, as well as looking deep inside wifi data. I just upgraded to their Enterprise suite, and wow, its amazing. Tonic is really powerful, and you can really get down and dirty with it. You can also look into RF interference with their other tools such as chanelyser (you will need their Wi-Sly adapter for that though). I have two USB wifi adapters, and that allows the software to scan 5ghz on one of them, and 2.4ghz on the other.

and no, im not their sales person... LOL.... but their tools really are that good. Even export to Wireshark using their own Metageek filter for Wireshark.

I think anyone that has to manage a large wifi network really should have the tools to troubleshoot.

Here is a link, they do have demos of the software. Oh, just know that InSSIDer will be going away - Tonic is replacing it.

MetaGeek | Equipping Wi-Fi Heroes

Re: How to Increase my Wireless Speed on AP305C?

Adam_Minowski — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:03:02 GMT

@Saravana_inflow is testing two APs it in same environment. Of course it could be that Sophos AP is using different/clearer channel than AP305C, but I would't be so sure that it could bring such big difference. Therefore, before you buy spectrum analysers, just go and check WLAN config, as I already suggested 🙂

You're right about one thing. Everyone who commercially does WIFI deployments should have spectrum analyser. That's undeniable.