AP305C WiFi6 best practice

[Naza783]

Dear Community,

We just got a couple of AP305C with the idea of start replacing the dozen of AP230 we have around our concrete building, and was wondering if you can give me some advice in regards to WiFi6 best practices or recommended configuration for our new AP305C, we are putting great hope that these devices will start coping with the extra-load of clients that we have, but so far there has not even a massive improvement, and I don't even know if WiFi6 is actually enable on them! I can see on the Extreme IQ portal that they have the radio mode 11-ax-5g, and using the default template for 305C, so I guess WiFi6 is enable. 

Would be great to know what settings would you recommend as best practice for their Radio Profile

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you!!!!

[Stefan_K_ · Accepted solution]

Not sure about the default settings, but you could check if OFDMA and MU-MIMO is enabled. 

[Naza783]

Thank you so much for the reply! Yes, we are ordering some AP410C because the AP305C did not make a significant difference, we are putting those now only in small rooms. We made a custom template for the AP410C, and configured also a 6GHz radio profile under ExtremeCloud IQ > Configure > Common Objects > Radio Profiles, but that new 6GHz profile is not displayed under the drop list of WiFi1 in the AP template for the AP410C, does it mean that the 6GHz is not eanble for that AP? 

Thank you! and as you can see I'm all new with this

[JonasD_Complit]

ap230 is a 3x3:3 access point and ap305c is a 2x2:2 access point. So it is a less performing ap. Off course you have the Wi-Fi 6 advantage. AP410c was a better replacement of the ap230 I think.

but we see if the performance is not ok, it it mostly a bad configured ap. I would recommend to disable data rates less then 12Mbps on the ssid's (or you must be using very old clients). And also have a look to your power levels. Depending on the design but mostly 14dbm is the max we use. And also try to the clients on the 5Ghz.

[Stefan_K_]

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@JonasD_Complit wrote:

ap230 is a 3x3:3 access point and ap305c is a 2x2:2 access point. So it is a less performing ap.

Given that most WiFi-Clients are 2x2 I wouldn't agree here in general.

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I would recommend to disable data rates less then 12Mbps on the ssid's (or you must be using very old clients).

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Good Idea! I even set it to 24 Mbps, most of the time. 

[Stefan_K_ · Accepted solution]

Not sure about the default settings, but you could check if OFDMA and MU-MIMO is enabled.