I thought insufficient controls slots affected registration as you say, and also upstream traffic, since controls slots are used by SMs to announce they have data to send and to request allocation of upstream data slots.
Given the additional capacity of 450, I thought the advice was to be generous with control slots, we typically use 8. With 100 series you didn’t have that much capacity and allocating more to control slots was a decision not lightly made. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Fankhauser Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 9:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Control Slots on Canopy can't you adjust the distance to make them sync as well if you don't want to add more control slots? It is my understanding that the main problem that arises from not having enough control slots on a heavily loaded AP is that new SM's take longer to register to the AP but once they are registered it is fine. On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Roland Houin <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: we use 4 too. needs to be 2x what you use on 100 series if you want them to sync. roland > We have always set our control slots to 3 on all our canopy platform. I just read in a Cambium notes file that control slots should be set to 4. I have a competitor that is running 6. What is the best setting on a 20 Mhz channel on the 450? 20M with 75% downlink. What is the tradeoff with the change of the control slot in setting? Cheers, Andreas Wiatowski, CEO Silo Wireless Inc. 519-449-5656 x-600 <tel:519-449-5656%20x-600> <
