If I have one AP working with 5Ghz NV2 in ‘only-n’ protocol what is best rate setting?
Maximum (limited at remote gateway) download will be 10Mb for each client.
- When there are only a handful CPE’s and signals are good, “conn. rate=default” works fine
- When there are many (15+) CPE’s with all good signals, “conn. rate=default” also works fine.
- When there are many (15+) CPE’s but due distance and nlos issues we have good signal (-40 - -65dBm) CPE’s as well as several poor signal (-65 - -85dBm) CPE’s, what is now best procedure?
If “conn. rate=default” is used I see rates in every possible setting, and changing all the time. Does this not put a burden on the radio and cpu and thus decreases network capacity?
Is it better to set only fixed rates? For instance basic rate 6Mbps (for minimum connectivity) and only MCS 4 or 3 and a fall back of mcs2 fixed? If I do so I see all CCQ % go up to almost all better than 90%. But its hard to measure if it indeed give better performance to average client.
(I use MCS 3-4 example because I am referring single chain network. I presume same counts for dual chain, but MCS rates would be set to 10 and 11)
I still have AP networks with 30 clients or more that are single chain and have several clients in the -70 to -85 range. While this worked fine a year or more ago, now with the ever increasing traffic demand I am afraid that the AP networks can’t cope with this while clients walk away if I can’t deliver their higher traffic demands.
Off course the simple answer would be to upgrade the network to the latest systems with the latest wifi. But now the price tag comes in. And this puts a big brake on rapid network reforms because we also need to invest in geographical network expansions…
In the meantime I just have to squeeze the maximum possible out of my present networks…until it really becomes unavoidable to upgrade again…
Hence my question what is now the best performing settings guideline?
There is just not enough simple guidelines online, let alone in the MT wiki or manual…