Re: [WISPA] Hidden Node symptoms, and best practice with RTS/CTS solution?

2009-05-13 Thread rabbtux rabbtux
MT equipment, Old Prisim radios, 2 sectors bridged at ap, entire network is routed and bandwidth control on all served customers. Sometimes the site gets congested and customers indicate that performance gets slow. approx 60-65 customers between the two sectors. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:12 AM,

Re: [WISPA] Hidden Node symptoms, and best practice with RTS/CTS solution?

2009-05-13 Thread Matt
In the old days of using Breezecom Pro.11 gear tweaking RTS helped heaps. Generally setting RTS on the AP to 1600 and on the SM's at about 50 was the trick. YMMV. Matt On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Jack Unger jun...@ask-wi.com wrote: Don't assume that a hidden-node problem is the

Re: [WISPA] Hidden Node symptoms, and best practice with RTS/CTS solution?

2009-05-13 Thread Jack Unger
Yes but experiment with different thresholds on the SM's starting with 500 bytes instead of 50. jack Matt wrote: In the old days of using Breezecom Pro.11 gear tweaking RTS helped heaps. Generally setting RTS on the AP to 1600 and on the SM's at about 50 was the trick. YMMV. Matt

Re: [WISPA] Hidden Node symptoms, and best practice with RTS/CTS solution?

2009-05-13 Thread D. Ryan Spott
OK.. first off, I have to know where rabbtux rabbtux comes from.. I have wondered that for years. :) And on this page I try and explain RTS/CTS thresholds and how I changed mine to improve my customers experience: http://tranzeofaq.com/RTS-CTS.html I hope this helps, feedback is appreciated.

[WISPA] Hidden Node symptoms, and best practice with RTS/CTS solution?

2009-05-11 Thread rabbtux rabbtux
Greetings, We have a busy site with two sectors bridged that covers a large area. With moderate traffic on the site, clients see a large slow up. This is probably due to the hidden node effect. What are the best practices using RTS/CTS to improve performance and what are the tradeoffs? Yes I

Re: [WISPA] Hidden Node symptoms, and best practice with RTS/CTS solution?

2009-05-11 Thread D. Ryan Spott
What equipment are you using and how many clients are you supporting per sector? ryan rabbtux rabbtux wrote: Greetings, We have a busy site with two sectors bridged that covers a large area. With moderate traffic on the site, clients see a large slow up. This is probably due to the

Re: [WISPA] Hidden Node symptoms, and best practice with RTS/CTS solution?

2009-05-11 Thread Jack Unger
Don't assume that a hidden-node problem is the biggest contributor to the slowups that you're seeing. Going to a routed network may give you a better improvement than RTS/CTS. jack rabbtux rabbtux wrote: Greetings, We have a busy site with two sectors bridged that covers a large area.

Re: [WISPA] Hidden Node symptoms, and best practice with RTS/CTS solution?

2009-05-11 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Routing will help considerably, and also coming with reasonable bandwidth control plans for all of the customers, enforced at the AP. I can get 40-50 people on an 802.11b AP with mostly 384k and 640k bandwidth packages.These are also bursted, and half speed on the upload, so on a