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.