Hi
We have a tower with 3 x 120 deg 2.4 sectors fed by RB532+RB564 with CM-9s. We have about 50-60 total users connected, ie about 18-20 per radio, but sometimes the users complain of pages not loading, erratic ping and packet loss. I would not expect this until about maybe 50 users per radio.
We have found that blocking clients with bad signal strengths (< -90dB) resolves the problem perfectly, however this solution will not scale as a manual process of checking and blocking bad signals 24x7.
So in looking for an auotmatic solution, I was at first excited to find the noise-floor-threshold feature, but then disappointed to find its not supported on recent chips ![]()
So then I was looking at connect-list which has a min-signal setting, but I think only applies to stations, not to APs?
is there a solution where we can deny access to signals less than threshold? Sure hope so, this will be the solution a lot of peoples’ bad service complaints I would imagine.
We know that it only takes one client with poor signal or long ack time to screw up AP service for all those with good connections, its a kind of DoS attack.
And for those who get blocked or cant connect after implementing the threshold thing, we will sell them a grid, or if there are enough of them in the same area, we would look at putting up a new tower nearer to them.
Thx for tips,
Jon