Those tools look great. Thanks for sharing Alex!
Our APs get rebooted about once per month. It's difficult to tell if they
actually needed it, it's the first thing members will do when they
experience any connectivity problems.
We have between 60 and 100 devices per day across 5 access points, two of
which can only get an uplink at 100Mbit due to old wiring. We've left the
configuration to defaults, they adjust their own power levels and channels
as the environment changes.
I'm of the opinion that the easiest way to improve WiFi is simply to buy
more access points (provided they are smart enough to keep their power
levels low and can roam users to their nearest AP). I've already spent too
much of my life trying and failing to optimise WiFi configurations. :)
On 27 April 2015 at 14:51, Alex Hillman dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com
wrote:
Interesting - we did a trial with Meraki and for us, the broadcast range
was terrible in our building.
I found some tools https://github.com/calmh/unifi-api that work with
the Unifi API to detect issues and can even trigger an access point reboot,
I'm considering an experiment to cycle access points regularly to keep them
fresh and see if that helps.
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Aaron Schaap aa...@elevatorup.com
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We've been using Unifi for awhile now and started having the same issues
after a few months of usage. I did a lot of the load balancing stuff, along
with a lot of Channel/Band configuration to deal with problems. We had the
same issues of needing to reboot and it didn't matter if it was 60+ people
or only 10. I tried to see if it was a time of day and that didn't seem to
matter. I thought it was a POE issue for a bit but after playing with
different things, it didn't seem to be the case.
We actually just switched everything to Meraki (https://meraki.cisco.com/).
I manage our infrastructure but also chat quite a bit with the building
owner that offers WIFI to the rest of the building (4 floors). They had
Unifi as well and were noticing the same things. The verdict is still out -
on day 2 right now but I like the additional reporting within Meraki.
I also like how Meraki handles wireless band selection (2.4GHz vs 5GHz)
much better as well. Unifi is supposed to do this but doesn't do it well.
We noticed a lot of users (mostly Mac) could connect to 5GHz but got stuck
at 2.4GHz often. I ended up broadcasting only 5GHz and created another SSID
for 2.4GHz for the few users still needing that. Wasn't ideal but everyone
had a much better experience. Meraki does Band Steering much better by
detecting clients capable of 5GHz operation and steers them to that
frequency, while leaving 2.4GHz available for legacy clients.
I'd be curious if you figure it out but we decided to switch to Meraki
ourselves.
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