I've been monitoring this thread closely. We are a heavy Mac school, about 2000 Macs all managed with JAMF Pro. We have just over 900 end clients on Sierra, and we too haven't seen or heard of any problems,
(that I am aware of) Our students from Grade 6-12 are 1:1 and own a Mac.
We are currently running:
- 10.41.01.0080 on our controllers, V2110
- but most of our 3935 APs are still on 10.31.04.0009.
- We too have an AP in every classroom only because of the way the school has been constructed in Dubai.
While we aren't using the same APs that you have in your setup, here are a few questions that come to mind, as I too had similar symptoms when we did our Extreme Wireless deployment last year:
- Out of curiosity, how are your channels mapped for your classrooms? auto/manual?
- Have you used Apple's airport command inside terminal, to see neighboring APs and what channel they are on and their signal strength? I believe the command is: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport -s
- Based on the output above ensure you don't have close neighboring APs on the same channel. We have seen instability when APs are on the same channel and are close together, aka co-channel interference. Symptoms with this would be slow internet or get booted off WiFi
- Your AP settings seem to be similar to ours. But as a reference, this is how ours is:
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