Hey guys!!
Thanks much for your help so far.
I have 3 APs. One acting as the main AP with hotspot enabled and the other two are repeaters.
I set up everything completely and the network is working OK.
I go to implement it on site, and it works, however the network is Extremely slow. By extremely slow I mean I do a ping to the local gateway and I get a reply in 4000ms or more.
I went into Winbox and did a scan of the network.
I found a bunch of AP from other companies, etc and as I was looking at the table I saw that my noise level is -98 to -100. Almost all the time stays at -100. Is that good?
I tried changing frequencies from 2442 which is what I had as default to 2417 and so on. No luck on making the network any faster.
For what I see I have a signal problem in the food court of this mall and I am getting crazy on finding out ways to improve the reception.
I tried changing the frequencies as I mentioned above. I need it to be 2.4 since most B/G cards support this frequency but then what can I do?
Any suggestions on how I can isolate my network or at least broadcast on a channel that is not as saturated as the others?
Please let me know as I don’t know what else to do.
Thanks much,
Teo
Noise level at -98db to -100db is good. How are your three aps set up? Are all on different frequencies, or true “repeaters” all on one frequency?
Oh sorry for my ignorance.. Well I guess it’s better that I asked.
I read somewhere on another forum that less than -78 was bad.
Anyways, I have one center main AP with two repeaters on both sides, left and right. All are working on the same frequency and channel.
For some reason the connection is really slow. There is a lot of packet loss and the times when I ping are around 3000ms and above most of the time.
What could I try to see if I can improve the connectivity. Also I am using omnidirectional antennas and they are not that far away from each other.
Regards,
Teo
You may be creating your own interference. With all three radios transmitting on the same frequency, it will limit the time each is able to transmit and receive, and each “stepping on” the others packets, causing some packet loss. As you add more clients, the amount of traffic that will need to be relayed to all the clients will increase, your speed will suffer.
ADD: I think you may have confused “noise level” with “signal strength”. If the signal strength is less than -78db (like -82db), that is not good. OTOH, if the noise level was to get up that high, that would not be good either. It is the relationship between the noise level and the signal strength that determines signal quality.