VL has been a love/hate for us. When it works, it works great. However, it has several serious flaws. It has the same associate/dis-associate issue seen with other WDS implementations. If a weak client continues to associate/dis-associate, packet loss to all radios on the sector happens and can even shut down the AP for long periods of time. No easy way to see on the AP the number of times this happens either. SNR is completely worthless for determining anything. Some of our worst channels are ones where clients show fantastic SNR. And, as said before, noise is a killer. It's very difficult to co-locate APs on the same tower even with 20 MHz of separation.
Now that Canopy 430 is out, we'll be ditching Alvarion and moving to Canopy. Canopy has been the best product we have used and the software continues to mature and while bug fixes are slow to be released, they typically are addresses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
