You can do one at a time, but you won't see the full benefits of it until you 
get all (or at least most) of them using it.  If you're going to gradually 
phase it in, you should start with your heavy uploaders first, as they are the 
ones that will drag your network performance down the most.

Craig


Quoting Eric Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Does RTS need to be specified on every client for this to take effect? Or
> can I try one at a time?
> 
> When I kick off half of the clients, my throughput goes back up to the 2
> Mbps range, but with 35 on there, the throughput goes down again.
> 
> I guess I will add a 3rd APPO to offload the clients.
> 
> Eric
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:20 PM
> Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Smartbridge APPO max client associations?
> 
> 
> > Just be aware that RTS needs to be set on the client devices.  Don't set
> it on
> > the AP.  Leave the AP at 2346 (RTS disabled).
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> > Quoting Kevin Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > >
> > > In a crowded environment RTS being lowered can help because
> > > it allows a client radio to send a Request To Send to the AP
> > > and the AP tells everyone else to shut up while the client
> > > sends off it's packets. Something like 1024 would be a good
> > > test setting to start with just to see if it would help.
> > >
> > > The Frag Threshold tells the AP to break up the packets when
> > > the exceed the specified size. That causes more (but smaller)
> > > packets to be sent through the air, allowing for more clients
> > > to get data through.
> > >
> > > Typically you want to only adjust one at a time to see which
> > > one is going to be that little bit of "Magic" for your particular
> > > situation.
> > >
> > > Kevin Summers
> > > KISTech Internet Services Inc.
> > > www.kistech.com
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Helm
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 9:29 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] Smartbridge APPO max client associations?
> > >
> > >
> > > RTS and Frag are both set at 2346... not sure what this does or means?
> any
> > > explanation and example of what changing these values does would be
> great.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Eric
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: phantam
> > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:21 AM
> > > Subject: RE: [smartBridges] Smartbridge APPO max client associations?
> > >
> > >
> > > 35 should work matters if the RTS and frag are all tweaked or are they
> all
> > > talking at the same time? The clients that is. I have about 28 on my
> pop's
> > > and we had swore at one point not to go above 25 on our site hence
> we're
> > > upgrading personally we don't use splitters its another point of
> failure
> > > but
> > > it should work with the amp none the less. It really depends on use the
> > > 11mb
> > > RF is aggregate and shared so if everyones on or all the radios are
> talking
> > > or evne the majority there going to go nuts.
> > > Chris
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Eric Helm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:04 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > What is the max client associations on an APPO without comprimising the
> > > performance of the throughput?
> > > I have 1 APPO that has 35 clients on it, and 1 APPO that has only 5
> > > clients... the lesser of the two can get 2 Mbps throuput, which is what
> we
> > > are feeding it from the backhaul, however on the APPO with 35 clients,
> the
> > > max throughput I can get is about 700 to 800 Kbps.  The setup is as
> > > follows:
> > > 1 APPO --> .5 Watt Amp --> Splitter --> 2 - 120 degree sector antennas.
> > > 1 APPO --> 1 - 120 degree sector antenna
> > > The APPO experiencing throughput problems it the one that has the
> splitter
> > > on it.. could this be causing the problem? We just purchased the WISP
> that
> > > setup the APPOs and I am not opposed to adding a 3rd APPO if that would
> be
> > > a
> > > viable solution, but I am concerned if 35 clients is going to hinder
> the
> > > performance that much.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Eric
> > >
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