My understanding is you really don’t want to be playing with this, perhaps if all other avenues have been exhausted it can be investigated….
Reduce your SSID’s, disable lower data rates, reduce co-channel AP’s (your own and neighbours) If you haven’t seen it play with this tool (Changing the beacon Rate shows the variations) http://www.revolutionwifi.net/revolutionwifi/p/ssid-overhead-calculator.html -- Jason Cook Technology Services The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005 Ph : +61 8 8313 4800 From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Britton Anderson Sent: Friday, 27 May 2016 10:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Beacon Intervals Hey Craig, It really depends on how dense your environment is. Keep in mind, the longer your beacon interval, the slower the roaming time clients take between APs. In my mind, the overhead that beacons introduce is far less of an issue than mobile clients dropping connections when they're roaming through the network. Especially considering the vast majority of cell carriers using WiFi calling now. --Britton Britton Anderson<mailto:[email protected]> | Senior Network Communications Specialist | University of Alaska<http://www.alaska.edu/oit> | 907.450.8250 On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Craig Simons <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello Group, On most vendor products that I’ve seen, the beacon intervals for SSIDs by default are set to ~100ms. Has anyone gone to the lengths of increasing this default in an effort to combat overhead? - Craig SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Network Services Craig Simons Network Operations Manager Phone: 778-782-8036<tel:778-782-8036> Cell: 604-649-7977<tel:604-649-7977> Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Twitter: simonscraig<http://www.twitter.com/simonscraig> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
