I believe you're right. I've only ran it for a week and it smoothed me out but I saw a problem right away. The client doesn't communicate any frequency issue to the host, it just accepts. I have a hub with many backhauls on it with all but one set as AP WDS with the other end as Station WDS. The one that isn't is swapped so the one Station WDS in the middle of all the AP's will accept a frequency that is being used right next to it because the AP WDS talking to it doesn’t see the conflict. To fix, I had to swap the operation of the two. However, with the "Never changes" fact........... and it seems to be so far, I just rebooted everything in the area and they all settled in. Much, much easier. I'm sure they will eventually auto change if they have interference, (they better!) but this addition is a major time saver for me. And the shocker........ It all works! At least for me. Lack of interference made my throughput jump, obviously........... Verified with one sub who called the day I was changing all the firmware and asked "Bob, why does it seem slower lately?"............ Today I called and asked him how it was working.......... "It's popping like crazy!" Sold.
-----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of m...@tc3net.com Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:31 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel I don't believe auto channel is intelligent, or changes based on any criteria, it just randomly picks a channel. I'm not sure it should help with your throughput. I've got a post open on their forum to try and determine exactly how the "auto" selection under frequency selection works. In my lab it doesn't ever change no matter what kind of signal I throw at it, it just stays fixed on some random channel it picks after selection of the option. Regards Michael Baird ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:25:08 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel I’d add that because of this, I was able to reduce a 40MHz link down to a 20 and a few 20’s down to 10 and still keep my throughput. I just can’t argue with that. From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:43 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel The 5.3 Beta 2 does. I leave AirSelect off but set the channel to AUTO with Obey Regulatory rules checked. Bob- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:49 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel I wasn't aware they had an auto frequency ability. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 11/10/2010 7:32 PM, Robert West wrote: FYI………… I’m hesitant to jump into UBNT Beta firmware for large scale deployment, lesson learned the hard way……… But the latest includes channel hopping and Auto channel. I’ve had ongoing issues with random interference and every couple of weeks or so have had to change my frequencies on pretty much all my UBNT radios. But I took the plunge with this new beta and it’s been SOLID for me for a week now. I tried the channel hopping but it was too busy for me. My noise floor was all over the place. SUCKED and way too random for me BUT just doing a simple AUTO channel…………. Smooth as silk! My interference is now GONE. My throughput has increased and my noise floor went from an average -85 to a -95 to -100 average. Running 5GHz on all links…….. I call this one a WIN! As I said, FYI. Nothing but good on this UBNT Beta. It’s about time! J Just sharing. Me- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
